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Sunrise South of the Border
Viva Veracruz | December 24th 2009
Christmas Eve Morning in Xico Mexico: The sun also rises here up on the mountain at Rancho del Cielo. At 6:30 AM a balmy 65 degrees with a light wind produced a majestic sunrise with Mexican colors. The burnt orange sky and a fine cup of Mexican coff read more
Season of Madonna’s
Viva Veracruz | December 17th 2009
The other night The Callahan’s and The Calypso’s scooted around Xico after ten – most senior citizens were tucked warmly in their beds by then but not our intrepid biker angels. My mission was to get some photos for you to see what goes on in read more
No Tarnished Stars Found in Mexico
Viva Veracruz | December 12th 2009
This time of year almost all “extranjeros” Bloggers living in Mexico will be writing and showing photos about the celebrations. There are a lot of them. If you want to read and see photos about the season you have but to look over to the read more
Hooked on the Big Grass
Viva Veracruz | December 9th 2009
Parts of Mexico are famous for bamboo furniture. Giant bamboo is the largest plant of the grass family; and we are hooked on it! On a beautiful sunny afternoon three couples of new settlers in Xico drove up to Bamboo Town. There you will find several read more
It Will Rock You…
Viva Veracruz | December 2nd 2009
If you have read any reviews of Mexico you already know it is a noisy country. Quiet at 10 PM until 8 in the morning kinds of rules simply do not exist. If you can’t sleep unless it is quieter than a moment of silence at a wake you will either lear read more
Mexican Bird Dogs
Viva Veracruz | November 30th 2009
We have been looking at real estate of late. Before I start getting email from family and friends as to WHY we would be looking for more real estate, let me remind and state right off that I simply enjoy looking. I am a real estate junky. The activit read more
One Indian Said to the Other…
Viva Veracruz | November 24th 2009
Here in Mexico we do not celebrate the arrival of Europeans at Plymouth Rock; the beginning of the ethnic cleansing of the American Indian. There is a lot to be thankful for. We gather those thoughts each time we participate in this holiday – not read more
60 Days of Power for a Pound of Coffee
Viva Veracruz | November 21st 2009
In our ongoing effort to let readers know what it cost to live in our part of paradise, here are some recent cost examples. We occasionally indulge ourselves by purchasing large baked muffins. They are comparable in size to one’s I have seen in co read more
The Get-A-Way
Viva Veracruz | November 18th 2009
Get-a-ways are designed for just that. Living day to day in Xico, Veracruz we seldom if ever have anything to get away from. Life is easy going and fun right in town. Rancho Del Cielo is just 3 miles across town past the cemetery and up the mountain read more
Peso Pan
Viva Veracruz | November 8th 2009
My love affair with all things bread goes way back. Since moving to Mexico I have become a big fan of peso pan. For one peso or about seven and a half U.S. Cents here in our neck of the tropics you can buy a savory piece of pastry. To be a connois read more
Naolinco – A “Shoe”-In Winner
Viva Veracruz | November 6th 2009
I last wrote that the bad roads in Teocelo were getting new visitors off on the wrong foot. You will encounter better roads on the 32 kilometers drive northeast of Xalapa arriving at the pueblo Naolinco de Victoria. Follow highway 140 through Xalapa read more
TEOCELO
Viva Veracruz | November 5th 2009
Some years ago when we were new to the area a fellow that had been here a couple of years took me to task for remarking about the amount of trash cast on the sides of the road and the holes and generally poor condition of the roadways between Coatep read more
Dipping Into the Church Sacraments
Viva Veracruz | October 28th 2009
I went to bed late last night finally falling asleep to a real snoozer – “Public Enemies” with Johnny Depp. Now you would think I could sleep through just about anything if I can sleep during 140 minutes of Tommy gun battles – but read on. At read more
Global Thinking
Viva Veracruz | October 25th 2009
I really like writing a Blog. Some of you may know that this Blog is posted on GlobalPost (for the link to GlobalPost see upper right hand corner or the bottom of this page or on the logo below). Steve over at ‘same life — new location&# read more
I climb way up to the top of the stairs…
Viva Veracruz | October 19th 2009
After a weekend of rain that I am assuming was pushed over here by Rick, we have a beautiful Monday morning – the luck of the working class – harsh weather weekend and glorious Monday morning! (Click on any photo to ENLARGE) The sun rising over read more
Freedom – A two Edged Sword
Viva Veracruz | October 15th 2009
A couple of dawns ago a neighbor in the Hood had a house explosion, an entire meltdown of everything other than stone. A poor but giving group of friends and neighbors gave items for this woman to begin rebuilding her life. Everything she owned went read more
Scat on the Poop Deck
Viva Veracruz | October 8th 2009
If you have been reading along you know Mexico is a land of rich traditions and mysteries. There are witches, warlocks, witchdoctors and priests who will cure your ills from your head to your soul. Wives tales and rituals abound. The latest to which read more
One More Dish
Viva Veracruz | October 4th 2009
One more dish and we will have a place setting for four! I installed a dish to send and receive Internet data 22,000 miles above the equator. In terms of Internet connection quality and speed our part of Mexico is a third world county. We always seem read more
A Groundless Claim
Viva Veracruz | September 27th 2009
Getting grounded is an important part of safely operating first world electronic equipment in a developing nation. What does this mean to you and me here in Mexico? It is safe to say it means more to me than most in as much as I have an electrical/el read more
You can’t always get what you want!
Viva Veracruz | September 22nd 2009
Rolling Stone Magazine’s 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time listed the Rolling Stones’ tune “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” at number 100. It would have been higher on my list. I loved the blending of the London Bach Choir read more
Another BRIGHT Idea
Viva Veracruz | September 20th 2009
Upon returning from the United States to our home in Mexico the first order of business is to put into play the many items purchased. Each visit includes the gathering of things to make life more comfortable south of the border; or dare I write life read more
Jamaica Sorbet in Our Future - Yum!
Viva Veracruz | September 5th 2009
We returned to New Mexico this week. We accomplished all of the tasks on our list for a visit to Las Vegas including: getting my passport, signing on for social security, getting my Canon lens repaired and our truck computer exchanged; we also bought read more
Cultural Assimilation
Viva Veracruz | August 31st 2009
We spent 18 of the last 24 months in Mexico. In the last 5 years we have lived more in Mexico than in the United States. It is safe to say we are comfortable in Mexico now. We have reached cultural assimilation with our lives in Mexico. Most, perhaps read more
America a Vast Wasteland
Viva Veracruz | August 9th 2009
After a career in the music business I opted to do some writing; certainly a more peaceful and arguably a more sane approach to making a living. As is typical of writing, supplemental income was often necessary. An adjunct to that need for seeds was read more
Border Crossing Exclusive
Viva Veracruz | July 31st 2009
We left for the United States Wednesday morning from the Hood (Colonia Ursulo Galvan). Anita has a passport – I don’t. This goes back to our methodology for getting items into Mexico. June 2 of 2009 the law changed at the border requiring auto an read more
Is Futbol Coming of Age in the U.S.?
Viva Veracruz | July 27th 2009
It was fun for me to share the win by Mexico over the United States Sunday; unlike most expatriates spectators I imagine. After a rather lackluster first half where the Gold Cup finalists’ teams The United States and Mexico played to a 0-0 tie, the read more
I Ran With (From) the Bulls
Viva Veracruz | July 24th 2009
We took the scooter into Xico for the GRAND Celebration Wednesday. Any other mode of transportation short of walking would have been too frustrating to get there. We passed several miles of cars crawling along at a few miles an hour to enter into Xic read more
Under the Volcano
Viva Veracruz | July 22nd 2009
In Malcom Lowry fashion we were walking the streets of Xico during the festival after imbibing a few tequila sunrises (sans the redness – I am allergic to grenadine). Being a head taller than the crowd is great for getting that shot of the rockets read more
The Blue Gutter
Viva Veracruz | July 21st 2009
We have been attending the festivities in Xico for the last few days. I have shot over 500 images. The difficult part is picking out just a few to post here. Xico is a colorful pueblo with fascinating construction. A myriad of colors and building typ read more
What Are They Thinking?
Viva Veracruz | July 14th 2009
The Xalapa Diario (The Jalapa Daily) is our principal local daily newspaper. With the assistance of Google Translate I read the Internet version quite often. I am following futbol these days (soccer to those of you NOB). Our Mexican team has two wins read more
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