Murals come to life in the Florence of Mexico: Guadalajara
In Guadalajara with a short time to spare after a business meeting or a long wait between flight? Even an hour or two will suffice to see something of the artistic heritage that Mexico's second city, G...
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Railroads in western Mexico: the next train to arrive....
Many of the things we take for granted today didn't exist in the last century. A case in point is the railroad from Manzanillo to Guadalajara.
The grand celebrations for the inauguration of this line,...
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An artistic evolution: Three modern muralists
For these three young men, art is not just an integral part of their lives, but a vital force in society as a whole.
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Living Memories
"Contact with nature has always been my primary inspiration. The energy that you receive is powerful, and at the same time, peaceful."
When Miguel Angel Martínez attended a photogr...
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Judy's amazing adventure
By mid-October, everything was done, I was packed and ready to leave. I placed the cat carrier on the front seat, hugged my friends as they warned me again that I would surely be raped and pillaged, cl...
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Famed Singer Bankrolls State-of-the-art Arena For Charreria Championship
Motorists traveling recently along the Guadalajara-Chapala highway may have been puzzled by what looks like the structural foundations of a mighty cathedral rising up near the roadway between the airpo...
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Symbolic Huichol Art: Journeys of Vision
As I walked through the gardens of La Nueva Posada, my eyes were riveted on the young indigenous girl seated on the garden wall. Her vivid yellow skirt and blue top reminded me of our magazine's masthe...
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Deluge in Guadalajara
On Monday, I took two friends with me to Guadalajara. My doctor gave me the address of a female Ob/Gyn who spoke English. It had been three years since I'd seen one and knew it was time for a mammogram...
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Living in Mexico: new discoveries in and around Ajijic
A friend told me a grand old flea market in Guadalajara. She didn't know the street names, but had paid only 35 pesos for an incredible black flapper dress with expensive beading and black fringe work ...
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A visit to Tlaquepaque and Guadalajara
Last month, a friend and I decided to spend a couple of days in Tlaquepaque at La Villa del Ensueño. We arrived about 2 p.m. It was even more charming than the photographs on the site. The owner greet...
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La Revolución
Last month Mary and I joined the American Society, a group of English speaking expatriates. We joined in order to meet other expats and so that I could attend Spanish classes there. At only $4 per meet...
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Shopping At The Stoplight
On the last day of the year 2000, Mary and I decided to take a road trip. We studied the map and decided to drive entirely around Lake Chapala. The plan was to take highway 54 south to highway 35 and t...
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Drinking Tequila In Tequila
One day Mary and I decided to go to the nearby town of Tequila where, of course, they make tequila. There’s a train you can take from Guadalajara to Tequila on Saturdays. Lots of tourists do this. I...
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Pistacho-ing Around
There’s a guy on the road to Tequila that sells the best pistachios I have ever tasted. He sells them from a cart alongside the road near a train crossing. His pistachios are low in moisture and well...
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Mary's Finest Hour
When Mary and I first moved to Guadalajara, we tried to get a cable modem installed so that we could access the Internet at a high speed. We signed a contract with Cybercable and gave them a security d...
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Uruapan's Waterpark
Mary and I wanted Ann and Ron to see a little bit more of Mexico, so Mary did some research on the Internet and picked out the town of Uruapan as a road trip destination.
I don’t think that Ann a...
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The Yellow Beetle
After returning from Mexico, I sold my house and almost all of my personal possessions. Most of my remaining stuff was stored in a four by eight foot trailer that was parked next to Mary’s house (Mar...
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Return To Tzintzuntzan
I was bored. That’s not easy in Mexico, but all Mary and I had been doing for the past month was setting up our household, so I had started to agitate for a road trip. We had taken one small trip to ...
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A Mexican Picnic
Mary had to fly back to the States for the weekend, so I was left on my own. I don’t know if Mary planned it, but Sergio, a Mexican friend that I had met through Mary called to ask if I’d like to g...
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Third World Debt
I read, this morning, that Britain is going to forgive some debts owed to it by third world countries. Agitators (code named “activists”) in the US are arguing that the US should do the same. The a...
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Machiavelli, Eat Your Heart Out
I woke up knowing I wanted to do something and that, of course, meant a road trip. I sat down with a map and realized that Mary and I had covered an awful lot of the area around Guadalajara. I remember...
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The Death Of The White Bullet?
My car, a 92 Pontiac affectionately christened "The White Bullet" by Harry, may be dead.
Mary and I were thinking about moving to the town of Colima. Guadalajara was fun at first, but it is too exp...
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This And That
Sometimes life in Mexico gets so surreal that you think you're living in a theme park. There's this guy who periodically comes around dressed up in an Aztec costume - feathers sprouting from a headdres...
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Where The Periferico Ends
Mary and I had cabin fever yesterday from sitting around the house, so we decided to check out a lake near the airport that someone had told us about. The idea was to check it out as a possible investm...
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