Not to leave y'all hanging with regards to my banking fiasco, I have good news and darn well earned I might add, but good news - I'm not broke, well not rich, but not broke which I realize is only good news to me, but being the warm little fuzzball I am (normally) I just wanted to "share"?<< MORE >>

Today's adventure contains all the elements of a real adventure. I define "real" adventure as having two parts, one when you do something really stupid and two, when you get away with it and your life remains intact. So it is with today, we have a problema, travel to a distant place by Jeep and by foot, disillusionment, yelling at a banker, yelling at a local folk, running a red light, the ensuing chase by a motocop and being told I look like the Governor of Jalisco? And finally acquiring a super secret "token" or ingenious number generator that allows only me to get into my - and I stress MY - bank account? What more could you ask from a day in paradise?<< MORE >>

This being year end I thought I'd take a few minutes to be thankful (while I'm waiting for enough water to take a shower when I'll be seriously thankful). So often these days when there is little good news anywhere you look, we forget to be thankful for the multitude of blessings of small things we take for granted each day. << MORE >>

Well, got your attention didn't it? But of course not here in paradise, we're 64 and climbing, sunny, toasty warm and blue skies and I'm in shorts as usual.<< MORE >>

Life in Mexico is just one "eventos" after another, like a long chain of things, some great, some good, some bad, some just plain stupid and/or ugly, but it's rarely boring. << MORE >>

The second half will be shorter and less complaints - I promise. It deals in part with the "game" we play at the border when coming back into MX with all the goodies we purchased NOB, and if I described the drive across central MX, it would be a very loooooong paragraph with nothing in it. << MORE >>

Ok, this part is fairly obvious, not that you're not aware of it, but America has become expensive and darn inconvienient, something I accept down here, but I expect more from the home planet. Most of you have become numbed by the ever increasing costs of some things and hassles at every twist and turn, but my nerve ending are still in full sensitivity bloom and every once in a while I got a real jolt.<< MORE >>

Just home from a trip to the "home planet" - and when it takes as long to "get over" the trip as the trip itself actually took, you know something isn't right. << MORE >>

It's been some time and while most days are an adventure, or at least recurring adventures, I haven't found anything to really generate an update - that is, until last night when my netbook boinged letting me know "you have mail" (loved that movie). << MORE >>

Some days the mind wanders, one thing leads to another. I originally started to write a response to a forum topic and it became a bit lengthily and I decided it was better here than there. Someone had asked about bringing in a rental trailer and the general answer is no, but of course there are always ways around the rules and I posted the following:<< MORE >>