TLAQUEPAQUE HERE WE COME........... Ana was right, she's different from most Mexicans, she said she'd arrive at 10:00 a.m. at Casa 50 and sure enough she was ON TIME. Today's adventure was Tlaquepaque, a suburb of Guadalajara, where the shops are supposed to be out-of-this-world. So after the introductions, Ana, Phil (her fiance from Philly, New York and apparently everywhere in between), Deborah and I set off in her Jeep to Tlaquepaque. It's about a 45 minut...

Here it is Thursday night and we find that we only have ten (10) days left in paradise. Today was a good day - started off with breakfast at our local haunt, Cafe Negro and then it was on to downtown Ajijic to look a the different shops on the Colon. Deborah managed to find some local trinkets for the grand kids and then because of the heat (92 degrees) we dropped in at the LCS (Lake Chapala Society) for a "coca light" where we met Benji and Cinder, two of the ...

For those who have become somewhat regular readers, I'm sorry that I missed yesterday's blog update. For the most part it was another casual day at El Dorado except that Deb and I got a chance to tour the condos here at El Dorado. We got a chance to see two of the units in the high-rise unit - a two bedroom - two bath which was furnished and about 1,700 sq.ft and pretty reasonably priced as compared to BC pricing. The second unit was 3,000 square feet furnished a...

Today's been a quiet day in El Dorado. We went down to the organic market with John to pickup a few things - gourmet chocolate chip cookies and some paella for lunch - homemade by one local lady who's here with her husband from Columbia. After that we walked down to Wal-Mart to get some basic supplies that needed to be replenished. While we were there we bumped into Terry and Bernadette who offered us a ride back up the hill, which was great considering we had so...

We've just passed and survived the two-week mark here in Ajijic with two more weeks to go. Today is Mother's Day - We've made the calls, we've sent the cards - even though were 3,858 kilometers away from home base we can still get it done. The men of El Dorado put on a great Mother's Day celebration. It cost $100P or $8.00 per person to attend and that included all you could eat and drink. The offerings consisted of Mimosa's (champagne and orange juice), pancake...