Chronicles of Mexico 1962 April 3

Chronicles of Mexico 1962

Excerpts from a teenager’s diary/scrapbook

(The full names of locations have been added to the Transcript of the scrapbook for clarification.)

Tuesday, April 3, 1962

Originally, we were to fly to Oaxaca, but due to the airline strike, we decided to drive , spend the night at the Hotel Lastra in Puebla, and arrive Wednesday. This is what we did and I am very glad. Enroot to the hotel, we stopped off to see where several generations of nuns stayed hidden for 100 years without being discovered by their persecutors (possibly the  Secret Convent of Santa Monica, Puebla, Mexico). They watched the Mass through holes poked through a wall.

The Hotel Lastra, was a panic. First off, Linda started chasing Russell, because he’d taken her bathing suit. Then, the pool was only half full, so, we would run and slide into the water.

The pool floor had an octopus and two entwined eels on its floor and a tiled theme of fish and kelp on the deep end wall.

That night when Bob and I came back from a walk around the premises, we found everyone writing a letter to Linda M. from Russell, the Duke of Dingleberry (unknown to him, though.) and one to Russ from Linda (unknown to her), something about little green, fuzzy men.