Naolinco

The Diario Xalapa reports that the lowest temperature of an October day in Xalapa in thirty years was recorded on Sunday. The low temperature was 5.8 degree Celsius, which equates to 42.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
I can report that Sunday was a beautiful, sunny day, of which I took advantage by motoring to Naolinco [...]

Apartment Pictures

I think the problem I was having uploading pictures was that they were in the .bmp format rather than the .jpeg format I usually use. .bmps must be larger files.
Here’s a shot of the living room from the dining area.

This is a shot down the hall. The door on the right is to the bathroom [...]

I Was Going To Post A Couple More Pictures

of the new apartment, but I am not able to upload the photos. I will take some more and try again. The disk in my digital camera has about 150 photos on it and that may be just about enough. I’ll change disks and try again.
First, thank you all for the congratulations on my dog [...]

The Men Of My Only Internet Cafe

I finally was able to get a photo of the father and brother of the family which operates the great internet cafe I patronize. The brother isn’t really sleeping on the job.
Though I met the mother of the family the day the cafe opened I haven’t been able to get a photo. [...]

My New Apartment

Yesterday I moved into my new apartment and, after a few months of living in the dog pound, I am indeed luxuriating. The picture at left is of the passageway from the street to the very far end where my apartment is.
I have a couple of other pictures to post but Blogger [...]

Free At Last

Today I rented another apartment. A nice two bedroom, ground floor, fully furnished (including an overstuffed living room ensemble) apartment that is the furthest unit from the street and has it’s own very small interior patio with the typical laundry sink one finds here. It also has an intercom to the front gate with which [...]

Salsa Dancing

Last night I went with Roberto, the proprietor of a “clon” DVD store, and his brother Juan Luis to a nightclub where a Cuban band played salsa music and where we were joined by a few of Roberto’s friends.
The band didn’t being to perform until midnight, which is a bit late for a guy who [...]

Garbage Collection And Itinerant Vendors

Here folks place their garbage each evening, except Sunday, in bags on a nearby corner and it is picked up by fellows plying the streets in a partially covered truck. One of the collection crew proceeds the truck jogging tough the streets ringing a cow bell to announce the approach of the collection crew. Crew [...]

Speaking Of Lousy Editing

Speaking of lousy editing, I am reminded of an incident when I was working as the City of McCleary public works director during the early 1990s. The City operates a municipal electric utility and employs lineworkers and other professional personnel to operate, construct and maintain it electrical distribution system. At the time the employees were [...]

More Public Art

Sunday morning as I was buying juice oranges from Tere, she asked what I had planned for the day. I told here I would take a walk, perhaps shoot some photos, make a couple of calls about houses, and otherwise loaf. She asked why I didn’t ask her to accompany me on my walk.
So Sunday [...]

Meet Amir Abbas Fakhravar

Have you heard of Amir Abbas Fakhravar? If you haven’t yet, you surely will. He’s the Iranian “student dissident” being promoted by such notable pimps as Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and the American Enterprise Institute as a part of their effort to forment action against Iran.
Laura Rozen, one of the few [...]

An Apology

As I’m sure all three of my readers have noticed, I am a lousy editor. Lousier than usual these days when I am relying on an internet cafe as I enter the posts and most often don’t read them again.
Last evening I happened to read through a couple and was appalled.

Meet Tere

From whose shop around the corner I buy fruits and vegetable. Like Mari at the lavanderia, the first time I went into Tere’s shop she quizzed me about where I live, where I’m from, and etc. She has also has been on the lookout for another place for me to live. Tere has been very [...]

Dealing With Samll Businesses

Yesterday I stopped by the panaderia to buy some bread. The nice folks there didn’t have change for the $50 peso bill I had so told me to pay tomorrow. Try that at Safeway or Chedraui.
Conversely, when I took a roll of film to DaVinci Photo for development the other day they were short $5 [...]

Xalapa Churches

Here are a few churches I’ve run across here that I think are pretty neat.
Mexico is considered a Catholic nation but there are churches here of all stripes.
The church at left is the Light of the World church, which I think as a name is a bit presumpuous.

The church at right is actually in Xico.
This [...]

The World’s Fastest Indian Motorcycle

I happened to run across a copy of a movie I’d never heard of but which stars Anthony Hopkins so I thought I’d I check it out.
The movie, The World’s Fastest Indian, is the story of Burt Munro, a New Zealander, who in 1963 fulfills his twenty five year dream of taking is modified 1920 [...]

More Public Art

I really like this mosaic wall mural.
I have taken photos of a number of churches which I will start posting tomorrow.
By the way, the dream house fell through, so I’m back to looking for a way out of the dog pound.

Independence Day Decorations

OK, so I got a roll of film developed that’s been in my camera for a month or so. Some of the photos are a bit dated.
These photos show a small sample of the decorations placed all around town leading up to independence day last month. I think the outline of the fellow releasing [...]

Pico de Orizaba

Here’s a shot of the snow covered peak of Pico de Orizaba peaking through the clouds that I shot from the Parque Juarez. This is the highest peak in Mexico and the third highest in North America, or so I read.
It is a dormant volcano, not extinct, that last erupted in 1687 and erupted fairly [...]

Augmented Public Art

Someone has placed a red flag into the hand of this statue of Al Benemer, I think his name is. I don’t know what Al did to merit a statue, but I’ll try to find out.
A couple weeks ago, the day after the independence day bash downtown, I noticed someone had place a Sprite bottle [...]