three things strike me about your comment juan gon: 1. one dollar seems like robbery for just one avocado. it better be the big-boy variety. 2. i am slightly surprised that there is a town called ¨carpentry¨or ¨carpenter´s shop¨- this surprise is tempered by the reminder that there is a place in arizona called table mesa. which means: table table. i think the town is underwritten by little ceasars. 3. avocado beer both intrigues me and seems to be calling my name simultaneously. methinks i shall have to do a little ¨will davis, jr detectiving¨ to see if i can score any of that golden-green goodness down here (i just guessed on the color but from how i am picturing, i think it is right).

and to the man who one day landed on the shores of this great nation from that finest of fine cigar producing nations, yes, that is a full 9 days worth of beard you are looking at in the picture of me in puebla. thought you all might not be getting your money´s worth from this blog? ha. 50 cc´s of beard, comin atcha.

as a footnote, of course i shaved said beard just over 3 weeks later, although i still sport some sort of chinny-chin-chin thing (basically what i wore throughout the ¨summer of spanish world tour¨ and when i became an official member of the ¨birch boys¨ in august 2004) that each day screams out to be shaved off. and my students say i only turned a deaf ear to their requests!