I Got Mexico

 

Well. Mexico has certainly been in the news lately and anymore news comes in all varieties. News used to mean exactly that,  it's 'new'....current, now, had not happened before. So good luck finding that if it's what you want or if you need interpretations and opinions and graphic pics that could or could not be real just Google Mexico news and off ya go. But if you want to go to the why's you've come to the right place from a guy with a musicians communication, a young mans heart and an old mans sense and of course an uncharted course.

Because of the importance of this blog post I 'm starting with a song instead of ending with a song like I normally do. Of this song Eddy Raven wrote when I was just a kid is really a song about two people and a place for me its a story of love really, for me it's a threesome, me , MP and Mexico....

While our friends and family N.O.B. ( north of the border ) have had record cold and snow, wind storms and floods we've had rain one day in 4 months. But boy did it ever rain. Well it stopped like we knew it would and Walla... a new sunset . I used to name them so this one could be the ' the sky window ' . Good from bad, a day stuck inside to an evening on a crowded terrace with friends and a ' sky window '.

As I'm power walking my way towards a smaller body one morning a guy who I've never met stops me and pointing to the sky says ' what do ya make of that '. I was speechless for a bit . I kinda had a sense  I was getting farmed for chem trail discussion or maybe even the old cloud seeding deal . But what I noticed wasn't the trails as much as the change of directions when I said ' maybe they changed their minds or forgot something '.  Bet I was closer to the truth than he was .

Our area has grown so much and generally people hate that. I don't know if it's the change of if maybe the 'old days ' really weren't all that good, I expect the later is true . We used to have to go into town for everything just like we used to go into to Kenai from Soldotna for 'everything '. But now we've got little tiendas to get your tamales and Barria.  We've got Pharmacies, lots of them.  We have the friendliest Oxxo store in Mexico where you can pay your utility bills, buy eggs and of course mucho frio Pacifico's. We love Oxxo. And with progress gave us our 3 mile long bike path that leads directly to the Coco's Fruteria with the the freshest of everything. The fresh coconut water is so good I can't describe it and the Star fruit is....well...I love the look.

Right about the time I wake up from my 'yoga nap ' on the terrace I watch these guys commute from work. They laugh a lot . They are pneumaticos as they use the inner tube to float the oysters . They paddle out return in a couple hours or so with at least 100 pounds of oysters a person.  I'm pretty sure everybody's gotta work in this big world, some of us found the cool others make and create the cool . This job , this job has gotta be way more difficult and stressful than it looks and ya know I've learned that looks are deceptive....people that are good at things make it look easy. Did I mention they laugh a lot ?  

We found the Marino Museum which celebrates Mazatlan's 350 year old history. Marino is a brand of coffee here and I ain't mentioning no names but somebody I'm in love with thought it would be the Coffee museum....which of course would have been cool as well...The building is the old naval fort where the French lost the battle for Mazatlan years ago. 

Us and Bill and Sharon Radke in front of the flying dolphins.

I saw some graffiti one time that said ' graffiti saved my life '. This is on a beautiful but derelict ocean front building that like the newly refurbished museum must have some real history but for now being a billboard is OK with me. Now some might think it's tacky, maybe even property damage . But, to me it says welcome to Mazatlan, no questions asked....and we love ya right back Mazatlan.

Dear Team X

 

maybe you've  noticed your Morale officer  and talent scout has been M.I.A. for a while now. I apologize it seems this condition, my newest phobia has turned kinda chronic and I don't like it. It seems like dizziness is the only thing that really stuck from my high school years. It also seems to be vision related. Having more hours in a boat than 99 % of the world and never getting seasick leave it to me to be the guy getting 'land sick' from the wave action. Yesterday at low tide I walked up to the pools I like to fish and like always I watch the water (guides call that ' reading the water '....mmmm....most of them can hardly read period...butt ....) and am looking for fish, bait , swirls and of course dropped money. Well I became a little woozy, far from the feeling when I nosed dived into the Playa a month or so ago but still very uncomfortable. I walked home concentrating on  balance and watching my feet. I didn't like that and it left me with a headache. So, call me complicated which I prefer but use hypochondriac if you must cause I just can't do it....I really can't. In the morning I've been walking 3 miles and stopping to do balancing exercises along with the eye exercises my buddy Bob sent me and it's helping. SO, dear Team Xers, until I return from injured reserve remember to eat your vegetables and play well together . Keep me in your hearts please and if any of you catch that 40 pound snapper I've been wanting please feel free to photoshop me in a picture of it.....I 'd do it for you.

84.5 kilos = 185.9 pounds....When I went into the gym at 49 years old and 240 pounds that was my goal. Lately I've hovered under 200 but with more exercise, way less of the demon rum and a side order of the Flu there I am....It's a miracle. That was days ago and now I'm kinda steady at 187....I seem to be achieving that ' fit senior citizen '  look....oh boy...

Yesterday after I safely landed back here at the left side of paradise I was telling our old friends Ken and Diane about me and MP's roving  International film festival . They said it's a funny story and that I should write about it...well Di, here goes and ya know I'll also take song requests anytime.....We Love the big screen and we Love the Platino theatre with leather recliners and food and beverages....( big tip, Nachos are really messy to eat in the dark )....So being in a foreign country we find movies that are subtitled , American with Spanish subtitles and of course this helps us with our Spanish but then....well...mmm...We go see a movie named ' Sentimental Value ' , It's about a Norwegian movie producer who wants to make a movie about his own families horror in W.W. 2 at the hand of the Nazi's and he wants his  actress daughter to play his wife who hung  herself in their home after the war.  And we figured all that out without one word of the good ol English language as it was a Norwegian movie with Norwegian dialogue and Spanish subtitles. Then a week later the movie MP has been waiting for arrives. ' Rental Family ' which is about an actor who finds work in Japan as playing real life parts in a variety of ways and....you guessed it ! A Japanese movie with Japanese Language and Spanish subtitles....So I'm feeling kinda international at this point, kinda worldly don't ya know.

That's how we're eating these days as I work through this balance problem that comes and goes...you ever see a pear that comes clothed ? You can get these babies at the Ley's new Fresh Food Market in Sabalo. The particular melon is a red one but weeks ago we got one that was yellow and seedless and me and MPeasy had to agree it was the best ever. Really .

And for your musical music feature of this Mile 14 edition we have 18 seconds of the Beetles...How can ya go wrong with the Beetles ?...Fun night at the theatre.