North America
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Guadalajara (4)
In the morning, I went to the local market with the sofa owner and ate chili relleno and chilaquiles. These are two common dishes served at Mexican restaurants in the United States. Chili relleno is baked Mexican green peppers stuffed with cheese, then coated with egg flour and fried in a frying pan...
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Guadalajara (3)
I chatted with the sofa owner in the morning, and we talked about that he has four brothers and sisters, because Mexico is a country where Catholicism prevails, and his parents have taken their five children to church since childhood. When he was 12 years old, he was very rebellious and resolutely refused to go to church. After "struggling" with his father for a whole year, their father-son relationship eased. When he was about 10 years old, he inadvertently...
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Guadalajara (2)
Here in Mexico, the daylight saving time is adjusted on Easter Sunday. One hour was lost a month ago, and another hour is inexplicably lost today. When I was walking alone on the street these two days, if a passer-by who seemed a bit strange came to talk to me or asked me a question I didn’t understand, I usually either ignored it or said “I don’t speak Spanish”, But just this morning...
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Guadalajara (1)
Three weeks after the vaccination, just in time for a week of spring break. I have been holding back for a whole year and now I have to take advantage of the vacation to travel. There are still many restrictions on travel and flights in many countries. I checked it two weeks ago and found that Mexico still has no restrictions, so I decided to leave. I haven’t taken a plane for a whole year. There are very few people in the San Francisco airport. Strangers are next to each other on the plane.…
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Portland, Crater Lake, California Redwood State Park (down south)
There's not much else to do in Vancouver other than eat, so we decided to go back to the US early and go to a few more places on the way. When I went back to the United States to cross the border, I stood in line for two and a half hours. The road from Northern California to Canada did not pay any tolls or tolls, but the irony is that you have to pay the tolls to go to the Sanban urban area.
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Vancouver
Today, when I was driving from Seattle to Vancouver, my friend and I were driving across Canada from the United States, and we were unexpectedly asked a lot of questions by a serious and expressionless border inspector: How long have you been in Canada? Why are you here? Where do you live? (Live at the owner of the sofa?! Have you met before?) Where do you two live in the US? Drive all the way from California? In the United States…
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Portland, Seattle (up north)
During the Christmas vacation, I planned to fly to Portland alone and then play in Vancouver. I mentioned it to my friend, and he decided to join me without any arrangements for the Christmas vacation. Since there were two of them, they drove north instead. Yesterday, I drove almost 8 hours to Bend, Oregon at midnight. I got up in the morning and went hiking on the small hill of Pilot Butte in the city. It was really cold in the early morning...