The Accidental Party

The Accidental Party, Continued.

Our streak of stumbling into towns a day or so before a major festival continues. From the blueberry festival in Macias, Maine last fall, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans a few weeks ago, we seem to have a knack for arriving in town on the brink of one of their grand gatherings. (We missed SXSW in Austin by only a few days).

We arrived in San Miguel Allende, a mountain town in central Mexico, for three weeks of intensive Spanish study, only to find ourselves on the...