text:  and delicious breakfast served with homemade breads and sweets and café de olla, that's coffee from a jar. All this certainly helped me endure winding back down those same hairpin turns through the Sierras. Afterward, my brain recouped while staring out at the turquoise waters reclined on the beach on Oaxaca's southern Pacific coast, my mind drifting out to sea. Wow, Yvonne in Houston, Texas. Great report from Oaxaca down in Mexico.