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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
Hotels in Mexico, Mexico City Hotels, Luxury Mexico Hotel Deals
Travel Tourism Guide | October 31st 2009 by Traveler
Mexico is a city for all - a place for families, couples, love, romance, fun, business and historic culture. After a long travel visiting places of Mexico like Puerto Vallarta, Playa del Carmen, Cancun, Los Cabos, Grand Canyon, Tulum and more, you wi 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
Vecinos
Viva Veracruz | October 22nd 2009
You can pick your friends but not your relatives or your neighbors. Neighbors (vecinos) are typically a luck of the draw thing. We have some neighbors that have become very good friends, some others quite the opposite. Often in Mexico, where houses v 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
Coatepec Bio Regional Organic Market
Viva Veracruz | October 13th 2009
I haven’t provided a dose of local color of late. What with being obsessed with moving. Saturday mornings are usually reserved for a quick trip to the Casa de Cultura de Coatepec. This historic building is on Jimenez de Campillo right where the n 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
Moving On Up to the West Side
Viva Veracruz | October 1st 2009
We haven’t rented a place since – well since I was my son’s age (about 44 years ago). Moving however has been a common occurrence, and I hate it. That is what we are doing now – moving stuff to our newly rented townhouse in Xico, Veracruz, Me 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
The World is Mine!
Viva Veracruz | September 8th 2009
We are winding down our stay in the U.S. – well so I would like to think. The truth is we may be here until the end of the month; but we are ready to go home. The glitz of Las Vegas and the charm of Capitan have not assuaged our preference to be in 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
Heart of the Dam Bypass Bridge
Viva Veracruz | August 24th 2009
Visiting electronic MEGA stores is just the tip of the astonishment of a visit to Las Vegas, especially after having spent the last ten months and most of the last five years living in a little town in southeast Mexico. The hotels, casinos and publ read more
Maid in Mexico
Viva Veracruz | August 18th 2009
The American dream of retiring to Mexico and having a maid and gardener is alive and well albeit perhaps a bit tarnished. If there was a simple answer for hiring people in Mexico for these services the discussions would have ended long ago – a simp 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
You’ll Know It’s Me When I Come Through Your Town!
Viva Veracruz | August 5th 2009
Buying a Car in Mexico can be very dicey. Like buying Mexican real estate the process has similarities and great differences as compared to buying in the U.S. Two weeks ago, after looking for two weeks, we found a new to us 2008 Jetta. It was for sal read more
Buying and Owning a Car Mexican Style
Viva Veracruz | August 3rd 2009
As you might imagine driving, insuring and even possibly buying a car in Mexico are controversial issues. You have but to peruse the many forums relating to expatriates in Mexico to get a feel for the diverse and often heated opinions. Let’s consid 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
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
Xiquenada Days
Viva Veracruz | July 19th 2009
Starting off earlier in the month and running through 26th of July is Xiquenada. This is an annual Festival happening in Xico. This week it culminates into essentially non-stop partying with bands, vendor stands, grand arches of flowers adorning th 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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