Being a typical Northern California paraholic, the winter season just drives me crazy! Sure there’s a little bit of flying here and there but there are very few thermals to hook on to and more often than not the flight is a short sled ride…Not that I mind. “A sled ride is better than no […]
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Baby Boomers: Reinvent Your Retirement in Mexico By Karen Blue CreateSpace, 2014 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback Book lovers, especially those contemplating retirement near Lake Chapala, will enjoy Karen Blue’s conversational interviews in Baby Boomers: Reinvent Your Retirement in Mexico. But my guess is that the book may be more attractive to people who have already moved south […]
Continue ReadingThe good government of Jocotepec, centralized at the west end of Lake Chapala in the great state of Jalisco, has given new meaning to the word “mañana.” Too early on a Monday morning in mid-December 2007, a giant yellow machine on four very large, black tires got the undivided attention of residents along Rivera del Lago. […]
Continue ReadingOne of the pastimes I enjoy most in Ajijic is walking along the lakefront, observing changes in nature as the seasons move from rainy to dry, from fall to spring, and with the changes, bringing new avian visitors. I start early each day and take my dogs, Carlo the big black Newfoundland, and Cokie the […]
Continue ReadingNEW TO MEXICO? Get off on the right foot! Let an experienced bilingual professional be your guide. I’m well qualified to help you find viable pathways in and around Guadalajara and Lake Chapala IF YOU ARE EXPLORING MARKETS OR STARTING A NEW BUSINESS IN MEXICO… Let me assist you: – making contacts – setting up […]
Continue ReadingSummer solstice 2003 would be memorable. A local paper mentioned a Huichol vigil to be held near the shoreline of Mexico’s Lake Chapala at a site called Isla de los Patos. The ceremony was to peak on June 21, the solstice. Under the leadership of shaman Pablo Taizan, supporters intended to contact ancestral gods through […]
Continue ReadingPurepecha fiesta in Ajijic, Jalisco “Way back when”, in the mists of history, Lake Chapala was a frontier zone, a Mexican equivalent of the Wild West. Neighboring tribes of pre-Columbian Indian tribes fought over its shores, and its resources, with control swinging from one tribe to another over the centuries. To the west were the […]
Continue ReadingEvery so often, an event or circumstance occurs which changes the way we think of ourselves, or our place in the universe. Today was a day like that. Late yesterday, a guest of my neighbor learned of an Indigenous celebration to be held today, high in the mountains. If I wanted to join her, horses […]
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A young Belgian botanist established a business exporting Mexican cacti to Europe back in the 1840s. Henri Guillaume Galeotti was born on September 10, 1814, in Paris. In early childhood, he moved, with his Milanese father, to Belgium, where he studied natural history at the Establissement Géographique de Brussels. This school had been founded in […]
Continue ReadingBOOKS (and chapters in books) MAPS ACADEMIC JOURNALS TRAVEL ARTICLES ECONOMIC NEWSLETTERS TRANSLATIONS CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2022 Si las paredes pudieron hablar: edificios históricas de Chapala y sus antiguos habitantes (translation of If Walls Could Talk) 2022 A postcard history of Lake Chapala 2022 Foreign Footprints in Ajijic: Decades of Change in a Mexican Village 2021 […]
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