We set sail on Ginger and Eloy's pontoon boat today for a "three hour cruise" on Chapala. Lake Chapala is located about 45 km southeast of Guadalajara, and is situated on the border between the states of Jalisco and Michoacan. At 1,525 metres (5000 feet) above sea level, its approximate dimensions are 50 miles from east to west and an average of 7.8 miles from north to south. Chapala is an extremely shallow lake, with a average depth of 15 feet and a maximum de...

After a night of good friends, good conversation and more than enough libations, I was a little slower than normal getting out of bed today. Laying in bed with my eyes shut, I heard the gate intercom go off with what seemed to be a much louder ring than normal. Jumping out of bed, pulling on some shorts it was our good friend John to give us updates on the Chapala cruise scheduled to take place in the next hour or so. We had agreed that with the overcast day an...

Tonight was a good night. Dinner with friends on the patio here at Casa Forster. With eight people for dinner it called for desperate measures. We had to move the mahogany table and five chairs out to the patio to accommodate everyone. We had John & Catherine, Don and Dale and Eloy and Ginger over for Deb's Creamy Baked Chicken, Vegetables on the BBQ with Fettucine and potatoes with bacon. Everyone seemed to enjoy dinner as there wasn't much left. After dinn...

Spanish Word of the Day - Bag -----> Bolsa Spanish Phrase of the Day - Can I have a bag? -----> Me da una bolsa, por favor? Today was an easy day. We went down to Tony's for lunch - ribs again. It's just a short walk down the via de La Loman to Hidalgo so it's convenient. We stopped by one of the few banks in town that will except/transfer U.S. cash into Peso's - I guess they're prone to robberies because there was a big Mexican guy standing outside the ba...

Wednesday is usually a very busy day of the week here in Ajijic (Ahhh-hee-HEEK). Deborah had been feeling a little under the weather so we decided to take her to see Dr. Roderigez at the clinic in town. For the $200Peso's we spent 30 minutes in his office for him to determine the diagnosis. After that we hopped across the street to Guadalajara Farmacia to pick up her drugs then all was well. We're having a dinner party here at Casa Forster on Friday so we had to...