Hey, it’s been a while but we have settled in in Acapulco. Here’s a brief rundown. July 9. Breakfast al fresco. Grocery shopping for the week via “collectivo”. Get off the bus and “poof”, my friend Cecillio appears, literally. He has a nack for that. Walk the strip at night Continue Reading
The “La Costera” Shuffle
July 7. I walked down to the local OXXO (Stop n’ Go, Seven/Eleven type place) and grabbed 3 coffees for our exit from Patzcuaro. We decided to go back towards Quiroga and see if we could help with the protest. You know, use some of that supposed “White Power”. Ok, Continue Reading
Climbing won’t kill you.
July 6th. We mutually decided, without speaking to each other, to sleep in a bit. Here in the highlands of Mexico, you just assume it’s chilly outside each morning. We never really found out because none of us got out of bed. We were awake but… At 10, I finally Continue Reading
Can I Buy Your Magic Bus?
July 4th. Once again it was a wonderful abuelita style breakfast that started the day and was followed by absolutely nothing. It wasn’t because we were resting for the holiday, plus it’s not exactly an observed holiday down here. No, we just chilled and waited until 11am to load up Continue Reading
The Voice Returns
The day’s events in Zacatecas took their toll on us and we made an early evening of it all. Well, it was that or the 3 to 4 local mescals that did us in. We awoke fairly early and walked up the cobbled streets to El Indio Alegre, (the happy Continue Reading
It’s not like we’re European or anything.
We started this summer’s trip a bit later than our usual. This is due to the dozens of projects we needed to finish around the house, a trip to Tennessee to see the new grand baby, a bit of work in Houston and Sharon and I both getting jury notice Continue Reading
Little Towns, Big Falls
As we recharged, Sharon perused our map. There are some waterfalls an hour or so away. Even so, we both had this odd feeling of tourist let down. Maybe we should cut the trip short and head back. We took a short ride into town, found alambre al pastor for Continue Reading
A Mountain Trail To Nowhere
Xilitla is a town with mostly roads that have a 20 to 30 degree incline at all times. You can’t help but get your exercise here. We walked a number of block to the town square, found a second story patio and had a cold one while we looked over Continue Reading
El Cielo
June 2nd, 2015. What weird day. It was a great nights sleep in Ciudad Victoria. We woke at a reasonable time and languished to our content. We were not in a hurry. The hotel breakfast was nothing to write home about so I guess you can ignore this sentence. Ciudad Continue Reading
The 12 Hour Rule
So, today we left for our long summer trip to Mexico and we started with the attitude that we would not drive for the typical 12 hour periods like we have in the past. We got on the road by 7am, lousy breakfast in Pearsall around 9, Laredo by 10:30. Continue Reading