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LIVING & TRAVEL
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The Story So Far ...
The Alternative (Spring) Break , Entry One, (3/13)
Follow Andrew Nystrom's weekly reports from the southern-most states of Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tobasco.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Two, (3/15)
Our man on the road explains how to get around the law and into Cuba.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Three, (3/27)
Andrew is now in Southern Mexico, and off the beaten track, he discovers that in Oaxaca, the best things in life are still (almost) free.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Four, (4/3)
Why food is culture in southern Mexico, and what to do there on a full stomach.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Five, (4/8)
Bus travel in Oaxaca means offerings to Jesus, gossiping locals, nursing mothers and buckets of fish.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Six, (4/18)
In southern Mexico, anniversaries of revolutions, dispositions of power, foundings of towns, myriad patron saints, deaths, birthdays and the changing of seasons are all excuses for a "pachanga" (serious party).
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Seven, (4/22)
Who are important enough to keep Oliver Stone away from the Oscars? The Zapatistas, of course, who have been described as the first post-modern guerrillas. Andrew attempts to meet the faces behind the masks.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Eight, (4/27)
Stranded in San Cristobal thanks to a statewide transporation strike, Andrew ponders the quirkier side of life in Mexico.
The Alternative (Spring) Break, Entry Nine, (5/1)
"The shortage of change for bills larger than 10 pesos ($1.25) exemplifies why expediency is not possible in Mexico."
New Orleans Jazz Fest: Cradle of American Music, (5/16)
Andrew stopped at Jazz Fest on his way home, and Tripod Politics and Community editor Anthony Qaiyum just happened to be there too. They report on the big festival in the Big Easy -- where the food tastes like jazz and the music is good enough to eat.
The Alternative (Spring) Break: Last in the Series, (5/22)
Even an alternative spring break has to come to an end. It's almost June, after all. Here, Andrew presents a gallery of his photography from Mexico.
Andrew Nystrom is a 21 year-old Geography-Linguistics student at the University of California at Berkeley. Currently on sabbatical, he has been working as a freelance editor/travel correspondent. Previous travels have taken him to Indonesia, Scandinavia, Ireland, and Guatemala. When he is not on the road, he enjoys cooking, reading, and bicycling. He was most recently the editor of the Berkeley Guide to Central America for 1996.
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