Z Old & New

The Zihuatanejo I first knew when I lived here back in '74 was the kind of natural and down home place almost any nature lover would have fallen in love with. Folks mostly walked everywhere, from town to La Ropa and back. Sometimes we hitched rides on pickup trucks. The walk to Playa Las Gatas was pretty much exactly the same as it is today. After you did it a few times it got easier. Playa Las Gatas was mostly beach back then. No wall-to-wall restaurants. No curricanes trying to pull you into their restaurant. No chairs blocking the beach. On Sundays when lots of families showed up, some by boat and some walking, it was still quite calm compared to today. Families are still what Zihuatanejo is all about. Here's a postcard from back around 1975, and this is exactly how I remembered Playa Las Gatas from that time.

Our front yard, Playa Principal, is another beach that has changed very little since those years. Scenes like this one from just a few days ago remain timeless. Just one of the reasons I fall in love with Zihuatanejo over and over, more and more, day after day. There's no place else I'd rather be, and I count my lucky stars to have one of Zihuatanejo's most beautiful people as my wife. Wow!