Ajijic ( pronounced ah HEE hick) is a little town on the shores of Lake Chapala - Mexico's largest lake which is about 45 minutes from Guadalajara, Mexico's second largest city. It has been considered to have the best climate in the world. Year round average temperatures - around 21 degrees. All year - every day bright blue skies, no humidity, no wind, just plain lovely. This, and a whole lot more has attracted about 15,000 expats - about 45% Canadian...

Nuevo Vallarta to AjijicAfter a week at my own timeshare resort – the Velas Vallarta, I headed up the highway about 15 minutes north to take advantage of another trade – this time at the mega resort of the Grand Mayan. I had acquired a huge condo here in my trading – really really huge for one person. I was thinking I should go back out to the street and bring in some other homeless types like myself as my unit was a two bedroom that slept eig...

Hello Mexico After a crazy month of tying up so many loose ends – sorting and chucking, hauling and carrying, all the while doing it with the use of only one arm – (seems I injured my right triceps carrying boxes too heavy for my weak muscles and continued to reinjure it every day for a month), I was down to a small little storage locker of possessions, the largest thing being my super cool bicycle which was my retirement gift from my dear friends. I...

I write this as I fly over the Atlantic Ocean on my way back to Toronto. The Air Transit flight was delayed by more than two hours. This delay initially made me very cranky as I am really tired from the crazy schedule of the last couple of months. Yesterday I was in Amsterdam, the day before in Istanbul and this flight started in Paris. Too many late nights and early mornings recently. In between all those cities are the transport issues – the metro, ...

The last month has been crazy - Paris - Tours -Porto Portugal - Tours - Paris - Amsterdam - Istanbul - Amsterdam - Paris...........Arriving back from Istanbul late - Andrea and I stayed at a Hotel near the airport and her parents picked us up the next day. The four of us hopped on the train to spend the day in Amsterdam. Even though they are Dutch, they come to Amsterdam very seldom and find the City quite imposing. I had spent nearly a week there exploring so...