Another day in paradise..... we awoke to the same old thing.......blue sky's, sunshine and warmth. Today's planned high is for 91 degrees (F) and sunny. The heat is offset by a pleasant breeze that comes north off the lake and up the mountain to El Dorado. Casa 50 does not have air-conditioning, but does have ceiling fans everywhere, including the patio and Mirado. Today we left with Jonelle, ex Hawaiian expat (by way of San Diego) in her car for the Organic Ma...

Today's been a casual day, on the patio for most of the day catching up on emails and the like. We had a chance to speak with our next door neighbour, Barbara who's lived here for 5 years, moving down if you can believe it from Horseshoe Bay and bought a house here in El Dorado in just three short weeks. Also had the chance to speak with a Jonel (a single lady from San Diegowho also seemed nice and offered us a ride to town the next time she goes. Seems like th...

Day 3 - Ajijic We woke this morning about 8:00 a.m. to a glorious blue sky and a great night sleep. We deserved it, Saturday seemed like such a long day. We decided that we'd head off for breakfast and from there start the walk towards Ajijic's town square. One of the things that we've found out very quickly is that we better get used to walking (it would be very fair to say cobble stoned roads) or taxi's or the local bus system. Suppose we can rent a car, but ...

Despite the delays, we arrived on-time into Guadalarjara at 6:10 on Saturday a.m. It was nice to get the bump up to business class, particularly for the red-eye flight - at least it allowed us the opportunity to get a little shut eye on the flight. We arrived, went through customs with no issues other than the hoards of people arriving all at the same time and only five federal agents to clear everyone. We looked hard but could only see about 5 couples of the 100...