Month: January 2015

This morning, after breakfast, Mare and I decided on a walk up to Mazatlan’s famous lighthouse, El Faro. From out here on the Isla , the complete round trip consists of a beach walk, water taxi rides back and forth across the shipping channel, and then a walk to and up the mountain. Including the…

Over the years we have picked up our share of unwanted guests in our travels. I’m not talking about my cousin Bruce when I mention this, or the pony you see over there.  I’m thinking “other kinds of creatures.” I think our first was a mouse. I thought I’d scared him off only to find…

Strange things happen when you have no plans on where you are going. When we last chatted we were in Southwest Texas enjoying Austin, Fredericksburg, Big Bend National Park and Marfa and more about all of them later. But then the weather took over. Incoming freezing rain, strong, cold winds all the way from that nasty…