Love Is Just A Zih Away

Explosions in the afternoon mean it must be pilgrimage time for the Guadalupanos. When you've heard enough gunfire, fireworks lose any attraction they may have once had. Remember this for your returning vet friends and family up north. I don't know why the local priests can't ask their "flock" to stop using fireworks or at least use less powerful ones, smaller bottle rockets for example instead of what sound like mortars, but I can only guess they're hard up for tithes and will take whatever they can get from wherever they can get it, not unlike our politicians who also don't apply laws because they don't want to offend anyone and lose votes.

Downtown traffic is noticeably heavier as people from the inland cities start taking their vacations. More people can be found on the beaches at any given hour including unfortunately some bums who have cut fronds off palm trees to sleep on the beach, leaving shorter palm trees looking butchered. For all the so-called police vigilance they continue missing key areas at key hours. There should NOT be drunks scattered along the Paseo del Pescador every morning along with the odor of urine everywhere. No matter how many times I suggest to locals and public officials that all public restrooms should always be free if they want everyone to use them, apparently they all still think it's some kind of money-making business. No. The smell of urine everywhere does NOT make us money. It drives folks away, makes them hurry on to someplace else. Even though many of us wash our sidewalks each day, a walk around town quickly reveals where problem areas are, such as the sidewalk beside the big transformers from Banamex to Licores Acuario. And I saw some nervous looking foreign women walking to the little pier to await a boat ride. The decay and smells and isolation had them understandably uncomfortable. The authorities mentioned they were going to paint it and fix up the area, but so far nothing except a lona to await boat rides under and a trash can.

Man oh man is our weather absolutely PERFECT! I believe the ocean is cooling down, even though our region of the country still appears to be the warmest area along the entire Pacific Coast of Mexico. PERFECT!

Each day I wake up beside this wonderful saint of a woman I thank my lucky stars! Man oh man am I ever lucky! Maybe even the luckiest gringo in Mexico!

While many fishermen work at night when it's cool, some also work during the day.

Lots of wild rumors flying around about the pier construction, but the only thing we've noticed for the past couple of months is progress. There are four rows of pilotes reaching almost to their final point. Work on the platform itself has begun. The piledriver was banging away as I snapped this shot just a little while ago this morning.