Church spires guide us through Guadalajara
We were snapping wedding photos in the atrium of the church - that's the big square in front of old Mexican churches where the Indians gathered to hear Mass - when the "next" bride and her wedding part...
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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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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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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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My outdoor secretary
I hadn't realized how much help an escribano might be. An escribano - sometimes called evangelista - is one of those fellows who works at a typewriter under the downtown arches. An...
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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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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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Lloyd Mexico Economic Report - September 2000
Table of Contents
CONSUMERS SPEND, SPEND, SPEND...
MONETARY REGULATION BONDS
TEQUILA INDUSTRY STUMBLES
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Charreada in Guadalajara
Introduction to the Series
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
In rural Canada, I live close to the land and to a farming lifestyle that was once traditional. Therefore, when I’m in Mexico th...
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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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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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Pot Squirrel
Lea didn’t like Mexico the way Mary and I did. She expressed a desire to return to the US early, to go back to living with her mother, so I bought her an airline ticket. But in a last effort at openi...
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Guadalajara street scene
Right behind Hospicio Cabañas, at the south-east corner of that building, you abruptly run into a rabbit warren of narrow streets, dilapidated adobe buildings, lots of old cars and poorly dress...
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Fiestas de Octubre - Auditorio Benito Juarez, Guadalajara
ESPECTACULOS EN EL INTERIOR DEL AUDITORIO BENITO JUÁREZ
ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS & LOCATIONS:
Community Service Programs · The Bohemio ...
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A House Far South in Mexico by Elaine Dandh
This is a reminiscence by Ms. Dandh about how she and her husband, Ken, retired and left their home in Massachusets and came and settled in Guadalajara. It's a month-by-month account of their first year of living in Mexico, getting to know the people and the place.
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A Man And His Goat
At the end of our two-month test of living in Guadalajara, Mary and I packed up my car for the drive back to Wisconsin.
We left Guadalajara early one Saturday morning driving north on highway 54. T...
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Mexican machismo and a Canadian tourist
“Watch out, Mom!” yelled Rose as the metal hulk of a city bus bore down upon the busy street corner. Hopping instantly back onto the curb, I choked on gasoline fumes while litter swirled in the bus...
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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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Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
After getting set up to stay in Oaxaca for a while I decided last week to make a quick trip to Guadalajara and Ajijic to pick up some stuff I left there in storage and haul it down to Oaxaca. I had to drive, as I needed my truck to haul the stuff. I had planned to travel alone but at the last minute a young Mexican lady who lives in Mexico D.F. but had been spending Semana Santa in Oaxaca decided to ride with me as far as D.F.
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The mariachi
Each year here in Guadalajara, we host an international mariachi meeting, with a musical festival and all of the rest included. Mariachis from all over the world come to celebrate the occasion every year. I've even had the opportunity to listen, believe it or not, to Japanese mariachis!
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Headin' South to Guadalajara from Nogales
Charlie G. Posted by Charlie G. on January 13, 1999
Headin' South from Nogales (an update)
My son and I crossed the border at Nogales yesterday (1/11) and were pleasantly surprised with the eff...
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To the charreada with stars in her eyes
"There is a sensitive filament in our beings, which responds to Mexican music….
To the sight of a horse well ridden, to the spectacle of a bull skillfully lassoed….
All of us, a...
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Letting go in Mexico: Young teens on their own
Josh, fourteen, and Rose, twelve, were keen to discover Mexico in their own way in San Patricio/ Melaque. As they were six and eight when last they frolicked in the waves, they now felt mature and open...
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Cockfighting in Mexico: Chicken soup for the soul
The Sunday Mexican fiesta at Guadalajara's Camino Real promised cockfighting. I should have expected the "cockfight" would amount to a quick display of two cheerfully bored roosters who could have...
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Guadalajara and the Iztepete archeological site
Very few visitors to Guadalajara and, indeed, only a minority of Tapatios (Guadalajara residents), realize that several ancient pyramids, built more than a thousand years ago, still stand in silent pri...
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