inscop

This post will be mostly photographs. We took a LOT of them yesterday on our tour. The tour was put on by Patronato pro Niños, a group that helps kids with mostly medical care and transport: http://www.patronatoproninos.org/events/tours.html The volunteer guides are mainly expats (ours was Jay) and they each have a wealth of knowledge about the history behind the buildings of San Miguel de Allende. The tour is 300 pesos per person, well worth it. 119 pictures and 3 panoramas. Enjoy.... read more

Teuchitlan is the tiny pueblo that is the home of Guachimontones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guachimontones), an important archaeological site in the Mexican state of Jalisco, near Guadalajara. Click for url=https://www.google.com.mx/maps/place/Guachimontones/@20.6916485,-103.8515682,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x84260dc27af7e84f:0x78f4a7f5526a5a9e!8m2!3d20.6954172!4d-103.8363279?hl=en&authuser=0MAP. You may have seen my posts about the url=https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHWA_enUS613US682&ei=OMIoXYSSIMPysQX7sJSgCw&q=voladores&oq=voladores&gs_l=psy-ab.1.3.0i203l6j0j0i203l2j0i10i203.2880.2880..11665...0.0..0.111.111.0j1......0....1..gws-wiz.ZNtCeEI2LicVOLADORES. Well, this is where they originated. There are a bunch of photos, so check them all out. Click on the links and read. Interesting things to know: If you ar... read more

Our drive back to Lake Chapala from Sayulita was made a bit more interesting by not one, but two overturned mango trucks. They pack those little trucks to the gills and they pack them high. Imagine how much ONE milk crate of mangoes must weigh. Multiply that by HUNDREDS. One of the crashes had already cleared except for the thousands of mangoes littering the side of the road. People, especially on easy to stop motorcycles, were helping themselves to the delicious free fruit. We got stuck in the second one, but luckily only for about a half hour, when the police starting one way traffic around the crash site. Again, plenty of free mangoes for the taking. Did Rose stop and let me grab even one? Nope.... read more

We have not published a blog for a while, mainly because we were....well, BORING. And you are not here to read or see boring stuff, so we saved that boring stuff for the people on FaceBook who mainly want to know if we are still alive. So finally, we are doing something a bit more exciting. We took a few days to enjoy ourselves in Sayulita. Sayulita is north of Puerto Vallarta and south of Playa Pancho and Playa Lo de Marcos. We took a nice little AirBnB that has an air conditioned bedroom, something we have not enjoyed since we got to Chapala, and boy did we sleep well last night. We spent some time on the beach and today we went to La Playa de Los Muertos, appropriately named since you literally have to ... read more

TLAQUEPAQUE: TLAH-keh-pah-keh Say that ten times real fast. Tlaquepaque is a part of Guadalajara dedicated to the arts. Cutesy does not begin to describe it. By the way, if you go here in a car, utilize one of the many (and cheap) parking lots to avoid the ubiquitous meter maid. She is ruthless! We did not have a lot of time since we had already been to Tequila this same day. We basically stopped in to have a nice dinner for Rose's BD. Now this particular place has several restaurants around it with a gazebo type structure in the center where mariachis play traditional Mexican songs. They were quite good, and both Rose and I bought music CDs from the artists and got our photos with them, see below. The food was pretty decent and the ... read more