Traveling is a great passion of mine. Growing up in two countries with drastically different cultures, Japan and the US, traveling helps me define my identity. I'm still looking for a place I can truly identify with and feel in unison with the community. Mexico was definitely an experience to remember. I was comfortable, honestly comfortable. Everything there had this silent but strong character. From restaurants on the road... (

the man walking by...

and a woman...

to the cactus placed in the middle of an empty field.

but not much because there were so much other things to see than the generic tour course, like the beauty of the midnight ocean.

Of course it was wonderful during the daytime too.

But what was amazing during the day was the sky-

I only got to see the central to eastern parts of the country, but already, Mexico has a special place in my heart.

© Trincoll Journal, 1995.