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In the Spring of 1962, I first traveled to
Monterrey, Mexico, on a Reader's Digest sponsored journalism fieldtrip.
I immediately feel in love with this exotic country. The following
summer I was the guide for a group from my church and on that trip I met
some Mexicans with whom I corresponded and spent the following
Christmas. The next summer I lived with the Jose Gonzalez family while
attending Monterrey Technical Institute, where I studied Spanish. Papa
Gonzalez let me add Gonzalez to my name after I ate a meal covered in
his picante, spicy sauce. I probably know Mexico better than I know the
United States. In 1987 I discovered Oaxaca. I lived there twice and
visited there on many occasions before retiring there in 2002. I founded
two tourist newspapers there (Oaxaca Times- English and Oaxaca - English
and Spanish). Of all the places in the world where I could live, I chose
Oaxaca.
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