Ah, Allende!

What Does Your Front Door Say About You?

I love driving through Forest Heights up above NW Cornell. Beautiful homes built along winding streets with beautiful doors. Bridget A Otto writes that the front door color reveals character traits of the owner. 

• Red: Tells the world to "look at me!" This bright color says you're not afraid of standing out or saying what's on your mind.

• White: Says you prefer things that are organized, neat and clean. Even if your home isn't always this way, you wish it were.

• Green: Tells the world that you have traditional values and enjoy being a member of the community.

• Black: Says you're consistent, conservative and reserved in your manner as well as your approach to color. With a black door you're saying your design style is timeless rather than trendy.

• Blue: Tells people you are naturally at ease in most situations and people are attracted to your easygoing personality.

• Yellow: Says you have a personality similar to green, but a bit less traditional. You're most likely a leader or organizer of a group.

• Purple: Reveals a "free-spirited" person who is comfortable taking risks, thinking differently and dreaming big.

We have a black door greeting visitors and I would say that's pretty accurate. I wonder if Bridget Otto has a purple door.

In Bed At Night, I Listen to the Waves

Inland  

by Edna St. Vincent Millay

 

  

People that build their houses inland,
   People that buy a plot of ground
Shaped like a house, and build a house there,
   Far from the sea-board, far from the sound

Of water sucking the hollow ledges,
   Tons of water striking the shore,--
What do they long for, as I long for
   One salt smell of the sea once more?

People the waves have not awakened,
   Spanking the boats at the harbour's head,
What do they long for, as I long for,--
   Starting up in my inland bed,

Beating the narrow walls, and finding
   Neither a window nor a door,
Screaming to God for death by drowning,--
   One salt taste of the sea once more?

TRAVEL + LEISURE Picks Chapultepec Park

World's Most Beautiful City Parks includes Chapultepec Park, Mexico City:

Aztec rulers once used the area of Chapultepec Park as a retreat, and it’s still a place of relaxation and rejuvenation today. You can visit the Baths of Moctezuma—a series of Aztec-built waterfalls and canals—and check out the sprawling green space on a Segway tour. Locals come here to picnic, play, and explore the zoo and museums, which are free on Sundays.

TRAVEL + LEISURE Picks Wayané

Best Breakfasts Around the World includes

Wayané, Mérida, Mexico

 

Yucatecans believe that the biggest meal of the day should be the first. So they arrive in droves to this corner stand come seven in the morning for addictive tacos such as chaya con huevos (eggs with chaya leaf) and castakan (twice-fried pork belly). 

TRAVEL + LEISURE Picks Nuestra Cocina and Sanchez Taqueria

Best Mexican Restaurants in the U.S. includes Nuestra Cocina, Portland, OR as one of the best.

Husband-and-wife chefs Benjamin Gonzales and Shannon Dooley-Gonzales have collaborated on a restaurant with peasant-style Mexican cooking in a less-expected corner of the U.S., Southeast Portland. Flavors span the cuisine of Zacatecas in north-central Mexico to those of Vera Cruz on the eastern coast and Tampico to the north. Signature dishes include the tamarind-marinated grilled Mexican prawns, tacos de puerco, sopes de chorizo, cochinita pibil, and puntitas de res en chile chipotle, sautéed beef tips with chipotle, chayote squash, and refried beans.

Best Mexican Restaurants in the U.S. includes Sanchez Taqueria, Tigard, OR as one of the best.

Portland doesn’t suffer for Mexican food that’s celebrated. Nuestra Cocina, Autentica, and ¿Por Que No?, among others provide proof of that. But for that real taqueria touch, you’ll want to get out of the city, head out on 99W, and stop in at Sanchez Taqueria, a roadside institution since 1999 that declares: “We’re not fancy, we’re delicious!” The house specialty chavindecas—a hard-to-find regional dish from small towns near Mexico City (fresh corn tortillas layered with beans, meat, crema, cabbage, onion, cilantro, avocado, and Cotija)—is enough to inspire a trip to Mexico to search for the next undiscovered thing.

Makes me hungry for Mexican food!

Popocatépetl Volcano (Mexico): new crater formed on top of lava dome