Category: Becoming Mexican
An improved quality of life
After a difficult year trying to adjust to our new life in Mexico, we finally feel like we have turned a corner. This Thanksgiving, we can truly be thankful. Read more
One-year anniversay
And it has been quite a year. Difficult, for sure. Adjusting to living in isolation. Not enough power to run a refrigerator. Fighting to get temporary residency and a bank account. A terrible trip back to the States to get our big trailer. Being unemployed for three months. Dealing with the oppressive summer heat. Read more
Dia de los Muertos 2024
Friday November 1 we drove to Puerto Vallarta to view the world’s tallest Catrina. On November 2 we drove to Sayulita for their Day of the Dead celebration. Read more
Rainy season in Mexico
It is incredible how green everything is now. Here in Nayarit, “dry season” still has some green in the landscape. It doesn’t get completely brown, like Guadalajara does. But after it’s rained for a few weeks, the green in Nature’s color TV monitor gets turned up all the way. Read more
Thanksgiving, on keto, in Mexico
We have now completed our second week of living in Mexico! Read more
Day Two
11/11/24 Not counting the day we drove from Austin to Laredo, we did this drive in two days. That now seems hard to believe, but the tiny trailer was not hard to pull at all– even in the rain. We started in Aguascalientes and traveled west, stopping in my old stomping grounds in Guadalajara for… Read more
DAY ONE IN MEXICO
11/10/23 We woke up in a motel in Laredo, Texas, walked the dogs, hitched up the trailer, and drove to the border crossing. It took two hours, but the car got tagged, the papers got stamped, and we drove across! WE ARE IN MEXICO!!! Laredo was cold and wet. Monterrey had crazy fog. It rained… Read more
Temporary Residency
10/27/23 My dad was born in Brazil but is now a naturalized Mexican citizen. Today, I find out if I’m on the road to becoming a Mexican like my dad. I’m still in the States, but I’m visiting the Mexican Consulate in Dallas to ask for temporary residency. My interview is at 10:30. I have… Read more
