We visited a mountaintop cemetery nearby this morning and I took my camera to get plenty of photos. I've always had a great deal of respect for places like this, especially ones at the end of a long windy dirt road into the jungle. It reminds me of the cemetery in Northern West Virginia that much of my family is in, also at the top of a mountain off the beaten path.

Acapulco has a reputation for drug crime and ten years ago it definately was a bit more of a wild place to be to say the least. At least in this cemetery you could see the rise of violence in this community through the years of 2001-2008, sometimes seeing graves of entire families buried in one spot. Things were definitely very different here during those times.

The only shooting we remember happening in our little barrio happened more than a year ago, when a woman was shot and killed in front of the tiny government building. I walked through the crime scene and wrote my shooting in the barrio but we never really knew what happened. Recently a neighbor told us her husband used to be a bad man, meaning he was involved with the cartel. It seems they found him and killed his wife, leaving him with 2 kids. We aren't sure if that's the truth but we do know that man has been nothing bit devastated every time we've seen him since.

Acapulco still holds a reputation of being dangerous but honestly has seriously calmed down. As far as we are concerned things are quiet here. There's still crime but it's not the same situation it used to be.

It was interesting that there were a lot of young children in the cemetery. My guess is many died of some sort of illness. The whole place told a sad story. Even still it was lively with the colors and with a crew of people setting up a new grave. They were friendly to us and our cameras.

I've got a lot more pictures of this place to share. It was easily one of the prettiest places I've been. I've always held the desire to be cremated after death but this is the sort of place I'd like to be buried in, if I were to be buried anywhere. I'll do without the concrete box, preferably with a tree planted above me.

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