This morning Mary and I set out to do some shopping. We were approaching a glorieta, the one we affectionately call the “Glorieta From Hell”. This glorieta is a circle, of course, but in additi... read more

Back when we did our house hunting, Mary and I carted 160 pounds of books and a metal detector down to Guadalajara. I didn’t know if metal detectors were legal in Mexico, so I didn’t declare it as ... read more

Harry and Simon are two friends Mary and I met through my Spanish class. Harry hails from South Carolina and has a very faint trace of a southern accent. Simon is originally from England, but he became... read more

Yesterday was hectic even by Mexico standards. It started out with the plumber coming to our house. We have a tinaco (water tank) up on the roof that had overflowed several times. The husband of o... read more

Mary and I went to Aguascalientes on the last day of September to look for a house to rent. Harry and Alejandro had left the previous day, traveling by bus. We offered them a ride in the White Bullet (... read more

I was over at Harry’s house last night for dinner (He cooks, I don’t, and Mary is gone ­ he’s a real friend). After our meal, Harry and I got into our usual discussion/debate about the state of ... read more

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... read more

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 ... read more

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... read more

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... read more

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�... read more

This past weekend was really great. Mary woke me up Saturday morning at the crack of 9:30. We were on the road by 10:30 heading toward a town named Guanajuato (pronounced Gwana-wat-o, it’s spelled ju... read more

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... read more

On Monday morning, the 13th of November, we picked up the permit to import our household goods into Mexico from the Mexican consulate in Dallas. The drive down to Laredo was uneventful except that we n... read more

April and May were hot and dry. This year, like every year, the city government of Guadalajara decreed rolling water dryouts (my own term) because of the lack of rain. One day out of every two weeks or... read more

My Internet connection is down and I’m bored. I have a random collection of notes about life here in Mexico that is not logically connected, but I’ll try to weave them together somehow anyway. ... read more

The last few weeks have been devoted to setting up housekeeping. Most of our efforts centered around buying furniture. It’s amazing how stressful life is when you don’t have a kitchen table to eat ... read more

Mary and I left Wisconsin on November 8, 2000 to move to Guadalajara. We delayed until the 8th because we both wanted to vote in the presidential elections before leaving. We hitched our packed 4 by 8 ... read more

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... read more