Category: Travel
My Sister and I in Guanajuato, Part 1
We walked the dogs by the Frog Fountain (Fuente de Las Ranas), which was a public fountain with about 15 different frog sculptures in the surrounding plaza. The name Guanajuato is actually a Spanish-ized form of the native Purépecha phrase Quanaxhuato, or “place of the frogs.” Read more
Hike to the Altavista petroglyphs
11/30/24 We recently started hiking with a group based in Lo de Marcos (three towns up the coast from us). I was super excited about today’s hike, because we were visiting the petroglyphs in Altavista– on my bucket list of Archaeological Sites Close to Home. It’s an hour and a half north of us near… 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
Day Two in Guadalajara
This is all the famous touristy stuff you see when you go to Guadalajara, but I hadn’t seen it for at least 20 years, and Lurko had never been there. Read more
Day One in Guadalajara
Today Lurko and I drove to Guadalajara with our two large dogs, who were excited about being on a road trip again. So were we. Other than our mini-vacation in La Cruz in June, we hadn’t done a road trip since April to see the eclipse in Playa Novillero. 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
The Great Crab Migration
Years ago, I remember driving from Sayulita with my brother and sister-in-law. We often made this 16-minute drive because our mom had a boutique store in Sayulita. During the day we’d help her out, and then drive back to our parents’ house in Higuera Blanca. On this summer day the drive was unusual because there… Read more
New Hope in La Cruz
06/08/24 We decided to spend a few days in the nearby town of La Cruz de Huanacaxtle, or “La Cruz” as everyone here calls it. Part of the hope was that once we had a few days of AC, refrigerator, and stable power, our heads would clear enough for us to solve our problems. One… 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
