A CouchSurfer Comes To Visit

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Our long awaited Couchsurfer, Angie, came to visit this weekend.  Angie was born in Mongolia and lived in the UK for many years.  She has lived in nine countries total in her short 25 years.  She teaches English at a school in Monterrey.   She had intended to run in a 10K this weekend but missed the registration.   We ended up going to the race anyway and that really worked up an appetite watching the runners cross the finish line.  Here is the first place winner as he crosses the "meta".

 

I took this panoramic shot of the town of Santiago, you should be able to click on it to enlarge the photo.  I love my town even though soon we may be moving,  in the next year.

 Here we are with Angie at the mirador overlooking the plaza of Santiago.   BTW, today was an exceptional day for tourism, you would think it was Semana Santa all over again. 

 

 Angie posing for the camera as we wait for the first runner to come into the plaza.  She is a wonderful person and we have invited her to come out and stay whenever she wants.   She is a great conversationalist and that must be because of her travels.  As I said, she has lived in many countries including Nepal, China, Japan,  Thailand, Holland, well, you get the idea.

 We went up to the waterfalls and this May thanks to recent rains we have some pretty good falls.

 We drove up into the mountains about 15 kms.  This is the route Kevin and Ruth took on their way south last time via Las Boquillas.   I thought about taking the rv this route.  The truck has a Hemi engine and I am sure there would be no issues, but it is very steep in some parts.  It has been a great weekend.