transversing the country

We made it to Oaxaca!

After spending a couple of nights in Acayucan, Veracruz (where I think the room had fleas or bed bugs), we took a bus from one side of Mexico to the other, and now we are in Salina Cruz.
We`ve spent the time in our "stop-over"cities to do research, request hosts, eat eat, and just wander the town plazas. One of my top favorite things about going to all different places and sleeping somewhere new so often is tasting all the food! Not only does every region or state have its specialties, pueblos have foods that are totally unique to the town. In Morelia we loved corrundas, fatty cheese + chili stuffed tamales, and gorditas de nata, tiny little pancake things they sell on the street. In Xalapa we discovered salsa de chili seco, a waay spicier and smokier tasting salsa they don`t serve anywhere else, and Veracruz has memelas, like a pizza sized tortilla with beans and cheese and such, and empanadas, a version of a quesadilla. Of course, the coastal states super specialty is seafood, but I only taste it through Ian`s descriptions.
I`ve been searching for a torta to rival an amazing place in Jalapa where I can get 3 kinds of cheese with pineapple, beans and chile. Now that we`re in Oaxaca we`ll be able to taste the mole everyone has been raving about. And another thing: CHEESE! Queso fresco is amazing, but queso oaxaca is my faaaaaaavorite! It`s a delicious salty stringy cheese, like mozarella but Mexican (there`s a less salty version called queso de hebra). And when we`re in a town with a market and place with a fridge we taste + stock up on all of the super super fresh cheeses.
So... we probably haven`t eaten pizza since D.F. It`s expensive. French fries- pretty often.
Street food is impossibly cheap, especially the farther south we get. The only downside - when we find someplace we like, we move on to the next stop.