A FIRST for Zihuatanejo!

Something I've been calling for for years finally appears to be taking shape: public advisories of parade routes and no parking zones during parades.

When I was a kid growing up in Louisville, KY I recall how signage was placed along parade routes a day or two prior to advise motorists not to park there during those hours. Often they simply put them on utility poles, parking meters and traffic signs. Worked great. Same thing in Marblehead, MA; Christiansted, St. Croix USVI and same thing everyplace I lived in Florida from Tallahassee to Coral Gables. But for the 3 decades I've lived here it's always been a rude surprise for out-of-towners with vehicles to either be woken up at some ungodly hour on parade days and asked to move their vehicles or to simply find their vehicles had been towed when they went to find them.

The closest ting to warning the public regarding routes for special events have been the online publications sometimes copied by newspapers showing the routes and street closures for the Triatlón during the past decade or so.

Lo and behold look what I just came across! Dang! We are clearly catching up with the 20th century! Look out! The text is incomplete because it doesn't mention 5 de Mayo, Juan N. Álvarez, Vicente Guerrero or Nicolás Bravo streets, but the map does. ¡Viva México!

But it doesn't say when!!!

But it doesn't say when!!!

That's where my website comes in!

See the Calendar of Mexican Holidays on my Community Notices & Events page.

Now be warned that almost all the parade times are best guesses based on the times from years before, and it seems that almost every year they change. But this being Zihuatanejo, an hour or so one way or the other is close enough for us. If you're there, you're there.

Are these mpeovements due to our new mayor?

Are these mpeovements due to our new mayor?

Since I don't work in the government they must be.

That was a giant parade and way more than 1 hour or so! Half the town showed up, and ALL THE SCHOOL KIDS were in the parade!