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Neighborhoods of Tepoztlán: Introduction

Don Karp, February 28 2026

Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico. This is a quiet street in the Ixcatapec, a pueblo of the municipality. This article is the introduction to a series of monthly articles exploring the varied neighborhoods of Tepoztlán. It is a theme prompted by folk's suggestions. Tepoztlán is one of the federal government supported "magic towns." It is an hour drive...

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Places

My Story

Don Karp, August 4 2024

Now onto the story!Growing UpI was born on November 6, 1943, in an army hospital in Biloxi, Mississippi. The hospital was free there because my dad was a soldier. Here's a photo of me with Mom taken in 1945.Here I am a toddler, on the left. The other shows me a little older:I was the oldest of three boys, each spaced five years apart. My...

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Category Name:  Mexico

Seventh Anniversary Issue

Don Karp, May 18 2024

Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico. Mexico Living Experience: the staff. Photo by author The first issue of Letters From Mexico was published on June 26, 2017. It was titled Get Lost! This philosophical title gave me a chance to describe a trail experience in Tepoztlán. Every month since then, a new theme was

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Culture

Fiasco with Federales

Don Karp, September 30 2017

The red arrow points to Zipolite, the beach in Oaxaca where I go frequently (more about that in the next blog). Fiasco with the Federales At three AM the red-eye bus going home from the coast ends at a service control stop. The authorities decide my papers are not acceptable and I take my backpack and get into the

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