Blogs from Merida, Yucatán, Mexico, North America - page 25

Son, Grant, left Dallas around noon today via bus for Beaumont. It's 11:19 pm and Nancy just called to say Gabriel was on the way to the bus station to pick him up. He'll be with Nancy and Gabriel for a couple of days and they plan to put him to work helping Sofia and John move in to their new house. That is the only reason I'm still awake. Waiting to make sure he did, in fact, get to Beaumont. Tomorrow is going to be one busy day. The tracking on Dean shows coming in below Merida now, but anything can still happen. It is reported that hurricane winds of 145 mph now reach 60 miles outward. I would be on the right (not!) side of the storm even if below me. Right side, I ... read more

Friday, August 17, 2007 Today I will go shopping for supplies for the impending storm and probable lack of services that it may cause. I have doubts that Merida, Yucatan, Mexico will let a hurricane impede their life like we do in the United States. I thought about this a lot last night. We, in the states, expect immediate service. Not so here. My experience in the Yucatan began in March, 2007. The following observations are limited to the city of Merida. 80% of the population under age 50 seem to have cell phones. Most are the pay by the minute cards rather than a service plan. My Mexican cell phone is on a pay card service. It does not appear that many have phones or computers in their homes. Washing machines and driers are not ... read more

and quit sending things to your email. But at least it's not cute (or not) jokes or chain type things..... Well, I've worked past my bedtime to download pictures from some emails sent to me and try to resize them. I don't really think it's the Spanish that inhibited the process this time, just complications. And after exhausting myself on that, I turned to see what YucatanLiving had going on. Read it please. Thank you, Khaki, for all the great info! http://yucatanliving.com/ is the website. In re-reading some articles, this one brought a smile to my face about driving around here. The Working Gringos write articles for the publication and this is one of theirs http:// www.yucatanliving.com/ yucatan-survivor/driving-in-yucatan.htm And in working on this little $%$^##^ computer to resize the pictures from my friend's new store (pictures ... read more

Afternoon, All. Have been on this computer most of the day working to learn this little Spanish computer and on Travelblog recovering blogs. Ali, webmaster of this site, along with other bloggers and outside friends of bloggers, have done a wonderful job in restoring everyone's work. Ali reported that as of Aug 10 about 5000 of the original 40,000 lost blogs will never be recovered. The forum here is 99.99% of encouragement to Ali and workers. Sorry that I hit y'all with an old blog on your email. Didn't mean to publish it when trying to add it back to my blog area. Now, I've resized some more of the pictures on the CD that was ready yesterday. And look! No beach pics!!! We'll have to wait til Tuesday or later for the rest of the ... read more

I want to thank everyone that has offered to resend links saved of my past blogs. However, the links are not links any longer. It is okay. Mitch snapped me out of my pitty party mood on that. We will just keep on talking! Bought a computer desk, chair, cordless screwdriver and a new Spanish laptop whose keyboard is completely different than the other one. Please put up with my writing til I find all the secrets. Like the at sign in your email address. On the other laptop it was alt 064 and on this one it is the special shift key and the number 2. Go figure. Have yet to figure out where the question mark, etc, is. On the keyboard, but not really there. But a great deal I think on the laptop. ... read more