Researching things to do in Jalisco that I hadn't done before I came across an article on the ancient round pyramids of the Teuchitlan culture which flourished from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D. I was picked up at 9 by my driver and tour guide and we were off to pick up the others I would be sharing the trip with that day.
We drove deeper into the Colonia Americana district with it's grand homes lining both sides of the avenues. In one intersection, during rush hour, a man was performing hula hoop stunts in the middle of the street. One of the homes had been transformed into a shop specializing, as did several shops in the city, in evening dresses with extraordinarily wide tulle skirts. Resembling bells, I wondered how a woman might use the restroom while wearing one of these fantastic creations. They also seemed as if they might double as effective birth control as no one would be able to get close enough to reproduce. Even an innocent peck on the cheek would prove challenging. We drove past soaring monuments in the middle of traffic circles that seem ubiquitous in the city.
As we moved further away from the metropolis of Guadalajara we passed hillsides of the distinctly blue green of blue agave waiting to mature and be turned into tequila as well as sugar cane fields. Eventually we reached the town of Teuchitlan, population approximately 1000, founded in the 16th century. The town's name in the indigenous language translates to "place of all gods". Its sign depicts one of the pyramids we would be visiting.
The tour guide quipped that the town was too small for a man to have both a wife and a girlfriend on the side. Apparently the women of the town gather together to do laundry and are not adverse to engaging in gossip.
I would think gossip is more important than the laundry.
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