¡Viva Zih!

I give thanks every single day I wake up in this paradise! Your kilometrage may vary.

For those of you who were downtown for the parade this morning, here's a little backstory so you can appreciate what went into the event. About 2:00 AM in the morning city workers with pipas and brooms came through town along the parade route in order to wash the streets. Yes they were loud and quite jovial, but I had to smile because they were busting their butts while there was no traffic and during the cool of the night to spruce the place up a bit. Their work was much appreciated by lots of us.

The barranderos also did an extra good job this morning cleaning up after the thousands of weekend tourists who mostly rolled out of here with their coolers and suitcases yesterday afternoon and evening in a seemingly endless trek during much of the afternoon as they enjoyed their last few minutes at the beach. Family after family. Group after group. Busload after busload.

Lupita and I would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to the kind and generous folks who bring school supplies and "cheater" glasses for Lupita to distribute. She's been extremely busy doing so.

This morning's sunrise seen from the pier.

It was quite encouraging to see all these medical and nursing students. One of the things the new presidente-electo is doing is decentralizing our federal government, and Guerrero will be the new headquarters of the Secretaría de Salud.

The charros are always a favorite part of the parade.

We loved the kids doing human pyramids.

What lovely pictures!
The beautiful spirit of your people always shines thru on their faces!

Nice to see Lupita’s hard work paying off.

And, I'm thankful for having walked this bridge from La Noria to Z more than 40 years ago.

And, for vacationing in Playa La Ropa then.

Bravo! Lucky you Susan!!

¡Qué chulada de fotos!

Thanks for these!

Can almost see Bill & Eileen's place in the photo of the footbridge to El Almacén. There's not much in this life worth having that I didn't carry over that bridge back when we lived in what became the Puerto Mío disco, before there was anything resembling the paved road that exists there now. It looks like the bridge was just "refurbished" in your photo.

And La Ropa with nothing built on the beach or the hills, though there were a few houses at the end of the beach in the ravine that became the driveway with the steps. I can just make out the roof of don Chebo and doña Chella's home. Also lived a few months in their rental house at the end of the beach back when I first met Lupita. Zihuatanejo sure was a beautiful unspoiled place back then.