Isn't Zih Lovely?

The weather is holding and has been simply PERFECT since December. Love this latitude! This is what the tropics is all about!

For some reason this morning I remembered some people I met living at La Ropa back in '74. A then young woman named Ashley and her cute little boy Doodah. They were living in one of the homes at the very end of La Ropa Beach up the hillside a short ways accessible by an arroyo near where Villa Zanzibar currently is. The odd thing is that a couple of years after I had returned to Anna Maria Island on the West Coast of Florida, the area where I'd lived before living in Zihuatanejo for 6 months, I ran into them, of course Doodah didn't want to be called Doodah anymore. They were living not far from my then-girlfriend's family's beach house, practically next door. What are the odds? Something about both Zihuatanejo and my other tropical home St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands (roughly the same latitude at Zihuatanejo) that found many of us traveling the same circles and knowing some of the same people. I originally met Pepe Solorzano who owned Casa Sun & Moon when I lived in Christiansted, St. Croix when he visited our home on Little Princess Hill with some mutual friends. What are the odds? Similar latitudes, similar attitudes.

Did any of you visit Zihuatanejo back then? Do you remember Ashley and Doodah?

Progress on the Paseo del Pescador.

A privileged view at dawn from our "front yard".