Blogs from Mazamitla, Jalisco, Mexico, North America

I'm writing this sitting on our large balcony, in the warm late afternoon sun... We had breakfast at a very old restaurant this morning because almost all the restaurants are closed today...it was OK, but Bill was served a mug of hot milk and a jar of Nescafe when he ordered coffee! We checked on bus times for tomorrow, which was hard because the bus leaves from a stop, not the bus terminal. The ticket booth was closed but the woman who sells tacos nearby told us there was a bus at 11:40 am...hope there is! We took a taxi from the plaza to the entrance of a gated community, where we had to pay to enter, and then walk 2.5 km to the waterfall, El Salta. In the taxi we passed people on horseback, and ... read more

We spent several days at the agua caliente (hot springs resort) Villa Corona. Since we wrote about and posted pictures from there last year, I won't go into any detail about the place except to describe the town's only sit-down restaurant. I don't recall the name of the restaurant but it is just across the street from the Pemex (gas) station. We had dinner there with Paul and Terry. The menu offered rabbit but I didn't think much about it. Paul and Terry ordered fish, Ray ordered chicken and I had shrimp. While waiting for our food to arrive Terry struck up a conversation with the restaurant owners. They showed her around the property. She came back for me. There were several pens of bunnies whom I'm sure will soon be slaughtered and served. Terry and ... read more