PRISONER EXPRESS

I would have to say going to Michoacan, Mexico is my favorite trip because I got the chance to roam my blood-line's place of birth. For I am the first generation Chicano, a Mexican American, which to me is ironic because Mexico is part of North America. From what I know my ancestors before the Spaniards were Purepecha and spoke Phore. They were known as the Tarascan Empire. My family came from Uruapan Michoacan and their municipal town of Tarascan consists of six pueblos (towns). Tzintzuntzan is the place they used to call home and Tarascan the people say it was formed in legend by Tarepe, one the last senorio. What I vaguely recall is a Spaniard was trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the Meso American Indian for some land. I was basically a sponge absorbing my surroundings and running amuck and exploring the whole township. Sadly but surely a good thing had to come to an end, so I said my good-byes and piled up onto a fire star bus line transport and came back home state's side, touring Mexico via the highways and byways up until Tijuana, then by car to Santa Ana.