Happy New Year to you, Lupita and all Zihuaphiles.

A note of caution tonight: might he a good idea to be under some kind of cover when the shooting starts. Everything that goes up....etc. A stray bullet landed a couple of feet away from where our friend Dan was standing. The next year, one clanged off the bar-b-que up on the roof of Nora's building.
All, of course, in good fun.

Excellent warning. We've also had rounds buzz past our heads and impact nearby. There have been serious casualties locally from the stray bullets fired in celebration. This used to be a local tradition practiced by almost everyone, but most locals of respectable families stopped participating in this years ago when cuernos de chivo began appearing in the area. It's one thing to pop off a few rounds with your handgun, another entirely to hear automatic gunfire from military assault weapons owned by violent criminals. The whole fireworks scene is no longer a pleasant experience for lots of us here.

We were enjoying our New Year's Eve dinner at Rufo's a few years back, when a Policia Municipal pick-up, its bed loaded with officers, drove by. Diners reacted with puzzled looks to a couple of loud explosions. Rufo calmly confirmed they were, indeed, gunshots from the "celebrating" policia.

Happy New Year to you, Lupita and all Zihuaphiles.

A note of caution tonight: might he a good idea to be under some kind of cover when the shooting starts. Everything that goes up....etc. A stray bullet landed a couple of feet away from where our friend Dan was standing. The next year, one clanged off the bar-b-que up on the roof of Nora's building.
All, of course, in good fun.

Excellent warning. We've also had rounds buzz past our heads and impact nearby. There have been serious casualties locally from the stray bullets fired in celebration. This used to be a local tradition practiced by almost everyone, but most locals of respectable families stopped participating in this years ago when cuernos de chivo began appearing in the area. It's one thing to pop off a few rounds with your handgun, another entirely to hear automatic gunfire from military assault weapons owned by violent criminals. The whole fireworks scene is no longer a pleasant experience for lots of us here.

A note of caution tonight: might he a good idea to be under some kind of cover when the shooting starts. Everything that goes up....etc. A stray bullet landed a couple of feet away from where our friend Dan was standing. The next year, one clanged off the bar-b-que up on the roof of Nora's building.
All, of course, in good fun.

For most of us who work for a living in Mexico it's been an extremely difficult year. Nevertheless, for Lupita and me each year we are together is the best year of our lives.

If you like fireworks man oh man are you in for a treat tonight. We saw literally tons of them this morning all ready to launch on the beaches at La Madera and Playa Principal, and I can only guess they are also ready and waiting to blow up the sky over La Ropa as well. I certainly hope there are no accidents. Of course, if you have pets or if your are simply shell-shocked from living in what sometimes has seemed like a war zone over the years then tonight will not be a pleasant experience for you, and Lupita and I sympathize with you.

Many of our friends with boats have been telling us they have seen lots of whales in the area recently. So now would be an excellent time to hire one of the whale-watching charters listed on my Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa Activities, Charters & Tours page for the experience of a lifetime.

Lupita and I wish everyone a joyful New Year.

Note the recently restored shade awnings. Better than the originals.