Zih Perspective

Middle of the week yet the hotels in Ixtapa are jam packed with thousands of tourists who mostly never leave their hotels except to walk the beach thanks to most of those hotels offering exclusively All-Included plans. The hotel guests feel compelled to eat and drink all they can, leaving them drunk, fat and lazy most of the time and in no mood to explore or spend money off the property. That's the cold hard reality.

Most of the restaurants and shops in Ixtapa's various shopping centers are struggling to survive for lack of customers. Why we allow these hotels to continue sucking the teats dry on our cash cow while giving essentially nothing back to the community beyond a few low-paying jobs, many temporary, is beyond me. I know what I would do to level the playing field if it were up to me, but I'll keep those cards close to my chest for the time being. What a dumb way to run a "centro integralmente planeado".

Someone in Ixtapa mentioned they were chilly last night. Our bay and the hills around Zihuatanejo keep our temps more moderate. The single bedsheet we sleep under was perfectly fine again, last night, though I did use the hot water for bathing last night instead of ambient water as I usually use.

A big shout out to Jauie who pretty much single-handedly got the stupid noisy carpa at Las Salinas cancelled so that its noise and drunk patrons won't be bothering tens of thousands of residents and visitors this year. Good job! Attaboy, Jauie!

Though the photos below were taken two days apart and at opposite ends of the sun's trip across our sky, the sky remains the same clear mesmerizing blue and the ocean remains the same calm and tranquil aptly named Pacific. We are so fortunate to live in this tropical paradise. Did I mention I'm The Luckiest Gringo in Mexico?