John took off on the bus from Oaxaca to Seattle. He wanted to see 2 countries out of the window of a bus. Danielle arrived that evening. We moved to a cute B&B with pink bathroom, 2 beds, a garden and fluffy towels - Casa de Luz Maria. Yesterday we visited the Oaxaca Cultural Center which is excellent and tells how Oaxaca was a developed civilization pre-historically. Huge cities were built and people paid tribute to god-like leaders of food, cloth and hand work. They set off to conquer other cities and brutally treat the captives. At least this is what could be gleaned from the remains of the civilization. I always wonder what future archeologists would make of the remnants of our civilization. Danielle and I used to imagine they would note that each home apparently had a place of worship with a (what is now a) stove, box for offerings of food for the gods (refrigerator) - its fun to imagine the speculation about our stuff. Today we visited Monte Alban, the biggest of the cities - on top of a hill near Oaxaca city. There were pyramids, altars, buildings for apparent astronomy observations. We will be taking some collectivos to outlying towns in the next few days.