On Monday April 27, 2020 K2J Fitness started  to run across Canada in a virtual kind of way!

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We ran the first 5000 km roughly following the route taken by Terry Fox in 1980. Sadly, he had to end his run in Thunder Bay but we will continue on to Victoria. The entire run across Canada  is 8180.81  km.  We have now gone beyond that distance and we are traveling South to Cabo Hornos at the tip of South America. 

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Week 4 

We started our week in Buelton California we traveled from there across the US border into Mexico. We ended the week just past Mexico City in Huamantla,  Mexico. 13,819.87 km from St. John’s Newfoundland and about 850 km from Guatemala. You can see the details of this week's trip below. 

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Huamantla is the home of the National Puppet Museum

Housed in an eighteenth century mansion this fun museum contains the puppets

and dolls used and collected by the brothers Rosete Aranda, who were famous

puppeteers in the nineteenth century. The museum has eight rooms where you

will see the more than 500 pieces brought from Germany, France, Italy, Indonesia

and Pakistan among other countries. Alas they do not appear to sell T-shirts

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If you are looking to do some hill work. It is a 14 km trip to

La Malinche National Park. Matlalcueitl volcano in the park is 4,462 metres

high. It is a gentle slope and there is a paved road to the top.

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Mats of Sawdust (Tapetes)

Every Saturday from noon a colorful rug is made in the alley Margarita Maza with multi-colored sawdust. People come to see the elaborate process and the colorful result. At the end there are matachines rockets and dances.This custom takes more force on 14 August the famous” Night that nobody sleeps”which is part of the celebrations of the Virgin of Charity. We should obviously plan a trip then.

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The Night Nobody Sleeps

La noche que nadie duerme (The Night When Nobody Sleeps) is the colorful star of the Feria de Huamantla.  A two-week August extravaganza of culture, comida and color, bringing together bull runs, dances and traditional stuffed chilies to give thanks to the Virgen de la Caridad.

Thanks is given through the creation of elaborate mats of wood shaving art – tapetes that cover most every street in town. About 8 km of art.

Each street plans and executes their own design, each design has at least six colors and no tapete will ever be the same as the last. Even the adornments strung across the street are all unique.

On the night of August 14th, artisans stencil and sawdust their way around the town, tap-tap-tapping on tin cans full of the stuff. They watch as the colorful shavings spill out over every nook and cranny of the intricate pattern immortalized in a cardboard cut-out. Like bakers adding the icing sugar to a cake, the process is rinsed and repeated along the length of the street.

Once the tapetes have been made, they stay on the streets for around four to six hours so they can be admired by the residents and visitors. Nobody can step on them until the procession starts

 When the clock strikes 1 a.m., the procession of parishioners, led by the image of the Virgen de la Caridad--heads through the streets of Huamantla, mussing up the carefully crafted tapetes as it goes.

This video is in Spanish but you get the idea. You can see the video here.