Cruisers are in town

Mazatlán is a multi-faceted town.  We have a huge shrimp fleet.  We are the home of Pacifico Beer, Café Marino and Coppel. But tourism is a large part of what sustains the town, and part of those tourists are visitors...

Nana’s on her way…

It seems to me that Halloween is catching on here in Mexico, but that doesn’t mean that Day of the Dead is taking a lower profile. Kids walked around Centro in costume but they basically called out “Halloween” here and...

This climate is amazing.

My last post was about Tropical Storm Rick and how all my plants had been affected.  Everyone said they would recover, and while I was hopeful, I was somewhat skeptical, especially with regard to the bamboo.  Take a look, above. ...

The plants took a beating…

Tropical Storm Rick really gave the vegetation in Mazatlán a beating.  Walking the dogs this morning I realized that the west  side of every tree we passed by was burned and blackened or bleached looking. A lot of the plants...

Mazatlan has soul

If you don’t believe me, just read the New York Times!  Click on the here to go to the article.  There’s also a slide show, here....

Can’t stop thinking about….

Rick. That’s right, Hurricane Rick.  Below is a short video of the waves and sky at Olas Altas this morning.  (It’s a different one from the one I posted to Facebook) We are hoping that he loses steam and when...

We know how to have fun.

We have been off goofing around with daughter Jess instead of blogging… here is a peek into what we were up to for the last week.  Along with reading, talking, coffee drinking, dog walking, and all the rest. She got...

It’s good to be home…

Erica, Paul & Owen playing Wii Paul and I just got back from 9 days in the US.  We flew into Seattle and headed North in our rental car to Bellingham, where son Phil and his family live.  We hadn’t...

Progress is a good thing…

BEFORE DURING It’s worth scrolling up and down a little bit to see the difference between the before photo and the during photo.  There is a little more than a month separating these two photos, and you can see they...

going with the flow

  • August 30, 2009
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We took the dogs to the groomer the other day.  Henry needed a trim, and Lucy needed a bath.  They both needed updates on their shots. It is exhausting for Henry to go to the groomer.  He gets anxious in...

What’s going on here?

Three boogie boarders last Friday Last Friday, it was hot.  Really hot.  And sticky.  Humid. Uncomfortable. In the afternoon Paul was heading upstairs for a shower and I suggested we run to the beach for a swim instead.  We changed,...

The project is finished!

I was afraid we wouldn’t be able to call this room our sala fresca once the windows were installed, but it is actually way more open feeling now than it was with the wrought iron! The only time the windows...