Going Home
posted over 2 years ago, updated 3 days later | 2 comments
Three and a bit years. A new land, a new language, a different culture, adventures, heartache, illnesses and struggle. I don't regret having done this but it's time to go home.
I will be wrapping up my time here in Mexico and on October 22, my ho...
I will be wrapping up my time here in Mexico and on October 22, my ho...
Independence Day: Mexico
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 19 hours later | 2 comments
At about 10:30 Saturday night I began to hear fireworks outside. I had to go get some drinking water, and when I went out the door, the streetlights formed halos in the smoke in the air. I could smell the gunpowder. As I drove up the road toward t...
The Segundas
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 minutes later | 1 comment
Segundas are second hand stores here ("segunda" = "second"). Today is Saturday and I went to one of the quadrants where blocks of shops sell everything under the sun. On weekends, whole families pile up in cars and go shopping. "Mama" is always in...
The Power Of the Spirit
posted over 2 years ago | 3 comments
These are very turbulent times. As we head into the predictable recession (which I saw coming two years ago), I am happy for my challenges in my life. My path has taken me to other lands, living in accommodations that many of my peers would find d...
Caught Between Two Cultures
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 2 hours later | 7 comments
Being on Eons is really the only contact I have with my own country that is interactive. After a little over three years, I feel disconnected from my own culture yet also not integrated into this one.
What is culture, anyway? I listen to my fathe...
What is culture, anyway? I listen to my fathe...
Lunar Eclipse
posted over 2 years ago | 3 comments
I watched the eclipse tonight. The last total lunar eclipse I saw was in England, about 20 years ago. I sat in the back of my pickup under the Mexican sky, and some neighbors asked me what I was doing. I told them about the eclipse so we all sat a...
VIVA MEXICO!!!!!!!
posted over 2 years ago | 4 comments
Picture this.....it's Friday night and I decide to go out on the town. First I went to the little coffee vendor to buy a kilo of those delicious, fresh coffee beans that are grown and roasted here in Mexico. Then I went downtown to see what was go...
What Would I Do if Money Wasn't an Issue?
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I've never been married and don't have any kids. I don't have to take care of my parents. I'm not sick (that I know of). So if I suddenly came into money, what would I do? First of all, I'd keep my horses and get new tack for them. I'd get some mo...
The Most Beautiful Horse
posted over 2 years ago | 0 comments
I love going to the Festival of the Horse here every year. It is held on the Sunday of Memorial Day every year and features many different disciplines of horsemanship. Here is my first attempt at digital video streaming. I shot this video of a lov...
Downtown Ensenada
posted over 2 years ago | 2 comments
I went down to my friend's restaurant for Happy Hour last night. For almost two years, I had been there every week even though I don't drink much. I pretty much quit going in April...when I went back again, I joined the noisy and festive atmospher...
