Chronicles of Mexico 1962 April 2

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.)

Monday, April 2, 1962

Carol and I had roomed together, so, this morning John W., Tita,  and we went for a horseback ride. We missed breakfast, but, it was worth it. The silly horse!  It’d been trying to buck me off when I gave a nudge to catch up with the others. I rode behind along with the stable hand, who had to accompany us as a guide. We had a wonderful time trying to communicate. I learned so much.

Later that morning, Bob took me around to the palace we’d been to last night. I took a picture of the bullring where “Pepe” had been filmed. I had never seen a real, working steam engine before. I snapped this picture as it passed.  Note the bottled H2O, which was very common to us.

That after noon, we drove to Taxco, the City of Silver where I bought a sterling silver ring for 35-pesos, which was $2.85. Here we visited the beautiful Santa Prisca de Taxco, Guerrero, in which the Tree of Santa Domingo or Tree of Life, was carved inside  above the doorway.

On the way back to Mexico City, we stopped at the Platera VistaHermosa, where I bought tie clips of onyx stones for Daddy and Pappy.

We spent this night in the Hotel Genevieve. Bob had taken me to see the Monument to Independence at night.