One of the highlights of this trip has been the food, created by the quiet dynamo Ruby and her assistant who come to the Casa each morning from their home in the native Mexican village of Tuito. Rudimentary Spanish is exchanged by English speaking guests and the cook; Bob and […]
1. Kids are everywhere, and they are comfortable playing their own games. Two tiny girls were playing doll games with a pair of scissors and a pen, another pack of kids was using a beached jet ski as their playground…and tag was their game. Videogames? No way! 2. You can […]
Today brought more wonderful times in the relaxed and easygoing setting that makes Mexico such a great destination. It still amazes me that so many of my American friends and relatives are afraid of coming here…it’s just so relaxed and fantastic. We made an excursion by small boat today to […]
As part of the Casa week experience, we took a dip into the big city of Puerto Vallarta yesterday, and to be true to the local culture, we took a city bus to get there. A young local woman, pregnant with a tiny boy in tow, waited with us, and […]
Liz Nania is a ball of fire with a huge roster of enthusiastic followers. We found out in Mexico that they’ll even follow her all the way down here to Boca to learn a few new steps! Our week in Casa de los Artistas was billed as a week of […]
On Mexico’s Pacific coast, a banquet of sounds wafts forth all day and all night. At bedtime, it was a few booms, as loud as a cannon but we assume instead, leftover New Years fireworks blasting from an unseen beach detonation location. In the earliest part of the morning, before […]
How are you getting across? Whenever we look out across the river Horcones that’s the decision that has to be made. There are several choices: we could wade across, (but we’re not sure yet how deep it is!) or we could sit in a little dingy and have a […]
We are flying tomorrow at an insanely ridiculous hour…let’s just say that by the time you reach for a cup of coffee, we will have already been in the air a few hours bearing down on Dallas. Then we will fly to Puerto Vallarta and by 1:30 pm we should […]
Japanese food, like things in Japan, is usually a bit more expensive than other lunch choices. Yesterday we parked ourselves in downtown Amherst and discovered what you get for this slightly higher price. It turned out to be a good value at Arigato Sushi and Hibachi, at the top […]
January is coming at us, like a comet that we can’t stop. I already feel that familiar dread that I once felt as a young salesman, worried about how we will all make it through the year’s toughest, bleakest month. But we always did. I worked in the late ’70s at […]
Google promised before it went public to “not be evil.” But again and again, I am seeing signs that this monolith has decided that there is no limit to how much power they seek and it’s hitting up against public backlash that no, they can’t just have it all. They […]
So it’s all over. The anticipated Christmas holiday with its requisite feasting, gifting, opening, houseguests, holiday music, suspension of diets, consumption of eggnog and too many brownies, the tattered living rooms of yesterday, the smell of balsam and the fires in the fireplace, the tinsel strewn and the tree slightly […]