Tijuana urban hikes
March 12, 2008
“Hanging in TJ” by Kinsee Morlan
I finally have a partner in crime. Derrik Chinn, nightlife editor over at Signon San Diego’s Street site, has been blogging regularly about the entertainment/nightlife and generally positive side of Tijuana for the last year. Due to running in the same social circle, he is now just days away from being my upstairs neighbor in Tijuana’s Colonia Cacho.
Last Saturday, we went on the second of what I’m calling Tijuana urban hikes. If you’re a gringo, like Derrik and me, nearly every moment of the inner-city walks are picture perfect. The whole experience is so foreign and unique. I wish I’d brought a tape recorder and captured the sounds of the hundreds of barking dogs not used to seeing ambling pedestrians.
My camera lens is drawn to all kinds of things in Tijuana, but it’s the ingeniuty and resourcefulness in Tijuana’s architecture that I love most. Coming in close second are the colors and, as I’ve explained on this blog before, the texture that seem to be unique to northern Mexico.
The gates, too, are something we gringos aren’t used to. I saw butterfly wings, flower petals and even a vagina in some of the gates we came across that day.
Anyway, here are the rest of the pictures. Enjoy, and if you want to come on an urban hike with Derrik and me, just send an email to kinsee.morlan@gmail.com and we’ll work it out.
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