After leaving our cold but cozy little cabana in Mineral Del Monte, we headed a couple of hours south to the town of Cholula, a “suburb” of Puebla, Mexico. We had visited Puebla last year, so we wanted to try something different in the area. The AirBandB we rented was … Continue reading
Just in time. We escaped the stifling heat and humidity of Mexico’s Pacific coast, got in our little beater rental car and headed for the hills! With Jesus as our guardian, we high-tailed it for Guadalajara-Tlaquepaque to be exact, for a couple of days. We would need to acclimate before … Continue reading
This Spring, El Gato returned to the Sea of Cortez with eyes wide open. You may (or may not) recall that our introduction to the Sea last year was full of surprises. This year we returned, buddy-boating with our friend Nancy on Aldabra, John and Donna (and Lucy) on Carmanah, … Continue reading
What do butterflies and Canadians have in common? Why, Mexico, of course! (I say this with absolutely no disrespect. Some of my best friends are Canadian.) Every year hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies undertake a great journey of up to 3000 miles in their annual migration from Canada and the United States to … Continue reading
Have you ever heard of Zihuatenejo? If you saw the movie Shawshank Redemption, you may remember it as the idyllic beach that Andy Dufresne painstakingly chiselled his way out of prison and crawled through sewage for. Yep. That’s the one. El Gato spent 5 weeks in Zihuatenejo this winter for … Continue reading
I have to admit, after my experience during my Scuba refresher class, I was a little hesitant, oh, hell, a LOT hesitant, to go on an actual dive. Especially since I was going with a small group of strangers, because Jeff wasn’t joining me. In fact, I cancelled the first … Continue reading
When Jeff and I first hatched the idea of selling our house(s) and moving away from Georgia and onto a sailboat, one question we grappled with was how we would leave our friends and find a new community, especially since we planned to be on the move quite a bit. … Continue reading
So it’s the Christmas holiday season here in Mexico, and it is so totally different from the holidays back “home”. In the US, Christmas (seems to) begins on Black Friday with crushing crowds congregating at local malls in order to “buy, buy, buy.” This consumerism continues until after the actual … Continue reading
Now that Jeff and I are settled back aboard El Gato after our four month road trip, I decided that I should indulge myself in a SCUBA refresher course. It’s been a long time since we have been diving. Jeff has an ear-clearing problem, so he’s not really keen to … Continue reading
Originally, Jeff and I had planned that Guanajuato would be our last “destination” of our 4-month road trip before heading back to Puerto Vallarta and our home aboard El Gato in early October. But upon regular checks on the weather, we were dismayed to see that the temps in PV … Continue reading