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OAXACA: AN EVEN BIGGER LOVE STORY Posted : 1/26/21 | January 26th, 2021 Have you ever arrived at a destination and just knew it’s for you? Something in the air just told you that this place is everything you dreamed it to be and you were going to be in love with it forever. I’ve felt this way only a few other times before, in Paris, Hong Kong, and Tokyo. And I felt that way again when I got to Oaxaca. The city’s energy and mine just synched. We were a pair. I could recognize the signs: a sense of unconditional joy emerged in my heart. My eyes constantly shifted to every shade of color, every movement, as if I had an insatiable hunger to take in everything. I was in love. My two subsequent weeks there only deepened that feeling. Oaxaca, a city in the central part of the Pacific coast of Mexico, is set in a valley surrounded by craggy mountains. (It is also the name of the state it lies in.) The area has been inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Zapote...