Janet and I are in Oaxaca, Mexico for a spring break respite. I've been here many times when in my 20s---usually in transit to a surfing town over the mountains called Puerto Escondido. First trip through here was in 1983 with my friends John and Wook. We spent a couple of days here, going to the fabulous ruins of Monte Alban---then getting into an un-pressurized prop plane that was started like a lawn mower with a big rope on the propeller. I was less risk averse then I guess.