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.