La Ropa news

Guys, please don’t dog on LaRopa!

Apparently it is no longer possible to “dog on Playa La Ropa”.

Nothing stays the same over the years! For people like me, who live in a hectic city, LaRopa is paradise! I have stayed at Villa Mexicana 30 times & going back Nov. & Feb.

Things do change. They can change for the better or for the worse. I think that people who live nearby (not me) think the changes are for the worse.

I have lived in Troncones part-time for decades. It has certainly changed since the early 1980s. Some of the changes have been good; some bad. I have tried to adapt myself to my community, and by ‘my community” I mean the families that have lived in the area, including Lagunillas, Boca de Lagunillas, Buenavista, etc.,.

I do not mean the outside investors who want to “Pave paradise and put up a parking lot” and “Take all the trees and put’ ‘em in a tree museum. (Thank you Joni Mitchell.)

What offends me is when people who have bought property in Troncones in the past five to 15 years expect the community to change to match their “back home” sensibilities, whether “home” is Olympia, Washington; Vancouver Island, Canada; or Mexico City.

My father-in-laws was an extensive world traveler, including conducting dozens of tour groups to places as diverse as the Philippines, China (in the 1970s), the Soviet Union, etc. He told people “If you want things to be ‘like home’, stay home.”

It is a small cozy hotel with the most wonderful employees! So convenient to all that Zihuatanejo has to offer!

How will you feel if this year the Villa Mexicana gets knocked down to build a 20 story “Las Mexicanas” with a disco that goes from 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m.?

To me it’s my 2nd. Home & my 2nd. Family! ????

And how will you feel if/when your second home and your second family are displaced?