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Up against a wall in Oaxaca

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Transportation, Travel & Tourism, tagged car, Mexico, monos, Oaxaca, photos, popular travel destinations, Vocho, VW, wall colors, zebra stripes on January 14, 2024| 7 Comments »

Sometimes artistry is found in everyday street scenes.

It’s all here… light, shadows, color, and creativity. What’s not to love?

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Indomitable bugs abound

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Transportation, Travel & Tourism, tagged automobiles, cars, Mexico, Oaxaca, photos, popular travel destinations, Vocho, Volkswagen Beetle, VW, VW Beetle, VW bug on March 23, 2021| 2 Comments »

In varying states of repair and disrepair and in a rainbow of colors, old but indomitable VW Beetles (known as Vochos in Mexico) are still seen tooling and sputtering their way around Oaxaca — an ideal car for navigating the narrow streets and limited parking in the city.

As the old Timex watch commercial used to say, “It takes a licking and keeps on ticking!”

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B is for Bug

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Transportation, Travel & Tourism, tagged automobiles, cars, graffiti, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, PINK, popular travel destinations, Vocho, Volkswagen Beetle, VW, VW bug on February 22, 2016| 4 Comments »

And a slightly squashed Beetle, at that!

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Where am I???

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Transportation, Travel & Tourism, tagged automobiles, cars, graffiti, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, popular travel destinations, street art, turquoise, urban art, Vocho, Volkswagen Beetle, VW, VW bug on February 7, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Unfortunately, not Cuba. (One of these days…)

Saw it yesterday walking down Tinoco y Palacios, on my way home from Mercado Sanchez Pascuas.

Leather upholstery, wood steering wheel, and paneled dashboard — it’s one very cool vocho.

However, when it comes to telling a color story, wish it had been parked a couple of blocks down the hill, in front of this wall. 😉

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Variations on a Vocho

Posted in Creativity, Culture, Transportation, Travel & Tourism, tagged automobiles, cars, Mexico, Oaxaca, photographs, photos, popular travel destinations, Vocho, Volkswagen Beetle, VW, VW bug on September 4, 2015| 1 Comment »

El auto del pueblo (the car of the people)…

The Volkswagen Beetle, known in Mexico as a Vocho, has been plying the highways and byways of Mexico since it made its debut in Mexico City at the “Alemania y su Industria” (Germany and its Industry) exhibition in 1954.

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The old school VW way

Long ago, in a land far, far away, I once had a Volkswagen Beetle. It was so old, it didn’t even have a gas gauge, only a reserve tank. My little bug would inevitably begin running out of gas when I was putt-putting up a hill, requiring me to take my foot off the gas pedal to kick over the reserve tank. Needless to say, I would hold my breath and offer up silent prayers that I wouldn’t get rear-ended and that there was, indeed, gas in the reserve tank! But, I loved that car…

So, only a block from Casita Colibrí, how could I resist stopping to admire this beauty?