If anyone else is interested in travel in Mexico, I've been getting an excellent series of books by Mary J. Andrade, via BookFinder.com and Amazon. They're mostly about the Day of the Dead in various parts of Mexico (Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca, Yucatan, Mexico City) - they're bilingual and illustrated with many beautiful color photos by the author, showing local people and their observances of the fiesta, and also giving a few local recipes in each book. My favorite is the book about Christmas in Oaxaca - I've been there at that time of year, and Andrade's book gives an feeling of the continuing public fiestas in Oaxaca in the last half of December, starting with the celebration of the Virgen de la Soledad, the Noche de Rabanos (Night of the Radishes), and the parades and floats that circulate on Christmas Eve. Highly recommended.