TIM McLENEGAN

Tepeapulco

  1. Ancient road to Teotihuacan is still in use today. Going the other way takes you to the coast to Veracruz.
  2. Tepeapulco has the oldest continuously-operating acqueduct in the Americas. It’s been working for almost 500 years and is still in use today.
  3. Old bull-fighting ring behind the church in Tepeapulco. It's still used today, but not for bull fighting.
  4. Chapel on the side of Tepeapulco’s church.
  5. Plaza outside Tepeapulco’s church.
  6. The suegros in the main square.
  7. It seems like every town in Mexico has a giant display of their name. It’s pretty cool.
  8. The group downtown.
  10. Fountain in Tepeapulco
  11. Colorful houses in Pachuca
  12. Mexico’s malls are nicer than ours. Pachuca is smaller than San Jose, but their mall is much nicer and bigger than any in the Bay Area. They also have a train.
  13. When you need to keep people off your back.
  14. Birthday party time!
  15. Ready for cake
  16. All we had was one really big candle, but it worked.
  17. Abuelo shows off his accordion skills
  18. Yessica and this giant tree at Xihuingo
  19. Xihuingo ruins of a Teotihuanco pyramid. The pyramid is precisely aligned so that the sun rises over its middle on the winter solstice.
  20. Yessica at the base of the Xihuingo pyramid.
  21. The Xihuingo pyramid ruins.
  22. Teotihuacan is behind the hill in the distance.
  23. The Xihuingo pyramid ruins.
  24. Petroglyphs at Xihuingo
  25. Petroglyphs at Xihuingo
  26. Trees, noples, and hills at Xihuingo.
  27. Climbing up a hill to see more petroglyphs.
  28. This petroglyph is a face. Can you see it?
  29. Yessica and another petroglyph. This one is of a Teotihuanco goddess.
  30. So many tunas (prickly pear fruit)!
  31. Yessica made a friend.
  32. Islas family at Xihuingo
  33. Group picture at Xihuingo
  34. Obsidian and pottery fragments at Xihuingo. They were all over the place.
  35. Right when we were on the way out, a shepherd passed through the park, so Yessica needed to run (literally) to see the sheep.
  36. Suegro uses a piece of obsidian we found to cut open a tuna (prickly pair fruit) for us to eat.
  37. Very yummy!
  38. Working on another one.
  39. Yessica and the peels of the fruit we all ate.
  40. Matching hats in the bodega.