GETTING READY TO MOVE

We are getting ready to move yet in a holding pattern for the close of escrow on my home.  There are last minute things being mailed to me and details to close up.  We are anxious to get on with where we are headed.  And where is that?  Packing has already started.  Trying to pack with Ken and Butch is not the easiest thing so I have started early.

San Miguel de Allende and Ajijic area are on the list of possibilities for the final location but now we have to see a few places that are on the ocean.  A decision will be made soon where to start up our home and business.

With all the traveling and relocating that I have done, I have been looking for the right place for a restaurant and a gift shop with home decorating items in it.  During the travels I have found and looked at what must be every artistic indigenous village in Mexico.  I know where to go to buy what and for how much, right from the people who make the product.  

I am excited to start but need all my information and data done prior to investing.  Plus both Ken and I are ready to have our own home.  We really are not comfortable living in other peoples homes with their things.

Patzcuaro has been hard and it has been good for both Ken and I.  It is a town where the peace and beauty of the grand plaza nurtures your soul and lets your spirit free.  The grand plaza will always be a place that is special in my heart.

This video happened one afternoon just going to get some pills for Ken.  I had been working in the house and had on just work cloths.  I should know by now that the plaza always has something going on and one should dress.  Of course I met some lady friends of mine and we just had a great time of it.

Met some really strange behaving expats here.  Maybe it is the cold weather, too many cloudy days - I do not know what it is, but out of all the area's we have lived in this place has the most immature group of expats I have yet to met.
   

The traffic, the noise, the congestion is not the nice part of Patzcuaro but it does add to the whole and crazy as it sounds, is an important part of Patzcuaro.  

The state of Michoacan is lovely.  There are rugged mountains, valleys, low and intermediate valleys, table mountains, precipices, gorges, depressions, plains, wavy hills, lakes beaches and cliffs that drop into the ocean.

Because the land is so diverse, the weather is also but something more then just weather.  The people and life styles from one area to the next within the state democratically change.

Morelia is the capital of the state and knock down breath taking beautiful.  First time I drove in that city I was at a stop light trying to figure out which of the eight signal lights above went to my lane and there was this flame thrower doing tricks during the red light.  That intersections had eight different streets converging into this intersection.  I was not seeing Morelia's beauty at that moment.

My return visits to Morelia, I walked the town and discovered the aristocratic flavor of the shops and buildings.  The architectural beauty is unbelievable.   

 This is a water purifier - or so they tell me.  If it truly does purify the water I can not say.  They are all over the area. Individual homes, hotels, and business operations have them outside to catch rain water.  The water is held in this stone sieve and drips out at the bottom.  Depending upon the size and holding capacity determines the length of time for the water to come out.

What the stone is made of I also have not found out - yet.  

 I think that the most impressive thing about Morelia is the aqueduct but also there are the statues My return visits to Morelia, I walked the town and discovered the aristocratic flavor of the shops and buildings.  The architectural beauty is unbelievable.    My return visits to Morelia, I walked the town and discovered the aristocratic flavor of the shops and buildings.  The architectural beauty is unbelievable.   

Patzcuaro is a unique town.  The Mexican community is wonderful and delightful to live around.  My experience with the expat community was not one that I enjoyed.  One of the things that I found delightful about the Mexican community was the unity of national spirit and the support that the community gives to the children.

Day of the dead celebration and all the school children dressed up and walked around the plaza with their schools.

The saints honor ride on horseback from Morelia to the church in Patzcuaro.

Children with their family involved in the "Old Mans Dance"

 School bands preform in the plaza.

All in all, I am grateful for the things I have learned from Patzcuaro but the adventure goes on, so to the beach we shall go.  As for now, - Donna and Ken

and our dear little (girl) Bitch

say hasta manana.