{"id":2003,"date":"2006-11-06T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2006\/11\/catching-up\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:15:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:15:54","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2006\/11\/catching-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The trip to Ensenada was very interesting. We drove through Tijuana which has transformed in the thirty and more years since my last visit. I recall children trying to sell gum and cardboard shacks in the river basin and on the hillsides. Perhaps they exist, but not on the usual tourist routes. Tijuana is definitely a NAFTA winner. Then we followed the coast down to Ensenada, which as our driver said was a more \u201ctypical\u201d Mexican city. It is a lovely small city whose economy remains dependent upon the sea. The ride up and down the coast revealed a bustling economy with construction going up everywhere. It also revealed some of the problems in maintaining minimal zoning codes. <\/p>\n<p>The next day I flew back to Chicago (talk about weather whiplash!) &amp; that evening picked Jan up for a long weekend visit.<\/p>\n<p>We did two tours sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecture.org\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chicago Architecture Foundation<\/a>. The first on Friday was a river tour which was a delight, although I froze right through to the bone. The second on Saturday was a three hour bus ride exploring much of the architecture of the city that invented the \u201cskyscraper.\u201d Thanks to having just read the <em>Devil in the White City<\/em>, I actually knew the names of many of the people involved.<\/p>\n<p>We attended Sunday worship services at Unity Temple in Oak Park, the Frank Lloyd Wright building some credit as the \u201cfirst\u201d modern public building. It was interesting to see how a contemporary UU congregation made use of what Wright called his \u201clittle jewel box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jan has returned to Boston and I\u2019ve returned to the rhythms of a minister-in-residence and \u201cprofessor\u201d of religion at a Unitarian Universalist seminary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/33904114-116283346150424775?l=monkeymindonline.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trip to Ensenada was very interesting. We drove through Tijuana which has transformed in the thirty and more years since my last visit. I recall children trying to sell gum and cardboard shacks in the river basin and on the hillsides. Perhaps they exist, but not on the usual tourist routes. 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