“Please push the button…” Green. “Thank you.” Successfully using my limited Spanish (and the phrase list in the back ofthe guidebook) to find the bus station across from the airport (bus ticket =$4, taxi fare = $38). When she realized we didn’t understand much Spanish, the woman at the 100%Mexicana restaurant reading the menu to us very slowly, her finger pointingto every word. Amazing mole. Checking into a hotel that cost $13 a night. Eating chicken covered in a sauce of tomatoes, green olives, capers, andalmonds, which all amazingly balanced each other out…then biting into thepepper resting atop it all,…