November 15, 2019 - 63 - Mexican Casa - "Our Street"

There are a lot of sights and sounds along our street...

   

      Sometimes the local police will dress in Spanish Colonial Era uniforms and ride around on horseback.

     I love to hear their echoing hooves clip-clopping down the street.  We'll look down from the rooftop, or out a window, and be transported back to another time.

The buses don't use our street.  It's one way and narrow at points.  (Nowhere as narrow as our old alley street was, but not really big enough for the buses.)  But most of the traffic tends to be for local residents and foot traffic to the market or to the hostel at the end of our street is the biggest part of the activity. 

We think it feels like Paris when we walk home after a rain.

Vendors use our street for their commutes to and from
work in the main square.  I love the colorful balloon
sellers, but the smell from some of those food carts is amazing.

There's a new restaurant about fifty steps from our door.  Looking out onto 'our street' makes it ten times more amazing.

The local Kiddie Train that entertains little ones in Plaza Civica parks in a little lot just off our street.  He can be seen on his commute on most Saturdays.

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"Sunny DaySweepin' the clouds awayOn my way to where the air is sweetCan you tell me how to getHow to get to Sesame Street"
-theme to Sesame Street
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"The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany."
-Rebecca Solnit
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