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ok, I finally figured out how to get to my blog via my iPad. I've only posted from my computer before. So, here goes: Tuesday--Wednesday, May 1-2 Left Ed and Kris's house way earlier than we needed to because Bob noticed that the airlines had gotten my name wrong on the ticket, adding "jr" after my name. Big warnings: ticket name must match name on passport. NO changes allowed." So we

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Remember this???? Check it out first and then come back for more: Do It Acapella I was messing around on YouTube looking for something entirely different--a melody for the seder--and Take Six popped up.  So I went on a little trip down memory lane.  That sound took me back 30 years (don't think about it!). So I followed that road through YouTube and jumped ahead to this:

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Since I haven’t been keeping up with this vacation, I thought I would try to start from Day 1 and try to recreate it from the beginning. It may not get finished but here’s a start anyway. Saturday, January 6 We left Ajijic in the morning—not early but not late.  We had unloaded most of the things we had boxed up from the house and put them in the storage room by the garage at our own

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Obviously I didn't blog at all during our visit there because I just couldn't seem to find the time during the visit.  Often I blog in my head while we're doing things but end up too tired to follow through right away.  So I'll try to go back and recreate. Monday night, October 9 Major pre-trip anxiety as usual.  Couldn't figure out what to pack.  The weather forecast showed

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We're going!!!  For a week in October (10-17).  We have our plane tickets ($100 USD each RT) on Interjet  and a pretty little apartment to stay in the historic district. VRBO 4117745ha.   Wiki Mexico City   Because it's much too much to describe here! Because the city is so large and there's so much to see, I think we'll plan to stay nearby except for

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I borrowed the title from Chuck Bolotin, a "retirement expert" (Hey, I think I'm working on that job title, too!), who founded Best Places in the World to Retire.  While some people to reinvent themselves in retirement or new places in very interesting ways, I don't feel the need to reinvent myself.  I'm pretty happy being myself, and life here is mostly a continuation of the life

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Evidently some of you don't know about "Thrill the World," the world-wide tribute to Michael Jackson every year since 2006, I think.  The idea is that groups all over the world dress up as zombies and dance to the music of Thriller on the same designated day and the exact same time (see below), always near Halloween. A friend of Jan Quarton's, Elliot Joachim, started the local dances

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Yesterday was El Dia de la Independencia, September 16.  It celebrates Mexico's own Declaration of Independence from Spain.  It started in Dolores (now Dolores Hidalgo) in 1810 when Miguel Hidalgo, leader of the revolutionaries, gathered everyone in the plaza and, standing on the steps of the church, issued EL Grito, the cry of independence.  That began their war of

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And Monday seems to be the slowest day of the week for us.  Maybe I can be disciplined enough to blog once a week. We've had really rainy weather now for almost two weeks.  It is rainy season but that usually means wonderful, dramatic thunderstorms--almost always in the middle of the night or very early morning--and we wake up to bright sunny days with few if any clouds.  This

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Yesterday morning we woke up to a beautiful, clear morning with a cool refreshing breeze.  We took our coffee back upstairs to enjoy the view over the village, the lake, and the mountains beyond. I noticed the cloud formation sitting right on top of Mt. Garcia, looking like smoke from the volcano it was once upon a time.  I remembered some folklore from when we were here several

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No particular reason why.  It's just seemed like the kind of ordinary day I'd like to have more often. Right now, doing one of my favorite things: cooking risotto (and soon, shrimp), listening to Pandora.  I was missing it so much, but then we realized that Roku lets us stream it even though we're in Mexico. So, since we moved the TV into what was the dining room (along with a couch

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Gaby and I are looking at 10 years worth of posts. (Gasp!)  We just watched a video of her at 2 years old. (See December 2007).  Her Aunt Zannah and Uncle John had sent her a pop-up Diego's school bus for Hanukkah that year.  Bob and I were renting a condo in Fairhope for two months.  Now we're looking at the blog posts so Gaby can think about setting up her own blog to

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Friday, after depressing myself by watching too much inauguration stuff, I distracted myself by reviewing my plans for my English class later that afternoon.  You may remember that I'm teaching a Conversational English class for high school students.  Here the high schools are called Preparatorios, or Prepa for short.  There is a Prepa in Chapala, about 5 miles east of Ajijic, and

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January 20, 2016 Watching the inauguration in spite of myself, like being drawn to watch a train wreck. I'm so sad to see the Obamas leave.  I remember watching his inauguration 8 years with Gaby who was only 3 years old.  She had practiced saying "Barack Obama" and recognizing him whenever she saw him on TV or pictures.  Now, at eleven, she has no memory of any other president. &

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Last Friday was a full day but not atypical, so I thought I would share it so all of you can see how we spend our days doing "nothing." Isabel, our housekeeper, comes in for 4 hours on Mondays and Fridays at 9:00.  We usually set an alarm for 8:00 and then manage to roll out of bed by around 8:30.  We prefer to be up and dressed when she gets here so we don't look like the lazy slobs

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Unlike Susannah, I'm not all that good at coming up with creative titles.  Enough already that I get some words on the screen, right? Standby, because I have a pretty lengthy blog brewing in my head, but I'm not quite ready to commit the time to it.  Maybe tomorrow.  I mean, I's almost 4:30 and I've already done a lot today! My main cooking goal for this week was to prepare

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I don't think I've ever seen this aerial shot of the memorial straddling the ship with the outline of the Arizona beneath.  Very moving.  But Susannah knows how memorable this day is for me, for both of us, I think. I'll add more to this blog later because I want to recollect as much as I can that amazing week, the biggest adventure of my life.

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Well, for about a week, it's been overcast with heavy clouds sitting right on top of the mountains directly behind us, and the lake and mountains across are invisible. The temperatures have dropped as well with highs in the low 60s and overnight lows about 55.  Then Friday came the deluge; it started raining and it's pretty much been raining ever since.  Here's a picture of the terrace

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There's a beautiful song called Guadalajara.  Here's a great version. Beautiful scenes from all over the city.  Unfortunately we weren't anywhere near them today. This is mostly what we saw instead: We were on a mission or two or three:   card stock to print cards with our names, addresses, phones, etc. so we can hand them out to new people we meet a small blackboard

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 Not that it really matters. But the dates do.  We went to Chapala this morning to pick up our ID cards that show we're now officially temporary residents of Mexico.  This means we can fly in or out with or without the car (which is also officially temporarily imported --with a $400 hostage fee refundable on returning the official sticker).  We're just officially official. &

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And, yes, Z, with more pictures: Took this picture at a nursery (viveros) nearby. And, yep, that's a poinsettia--the same as the ones you see in pots every Christmas, and I'm standing as tall as I possibly can. We have a couple of these trees in our garden and some of the leaves are just beginning to turn red. When I saw the picture, it reminded me of the first time I saw these plants grown

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I realized that I've rendered myself mute by telling myself that I have to write everything that's happened to us in the 6 weeks or so.  But...never gonna happen. The longer I wait, the heavier the burden ("It'll take hours! I don 't have the right pictures!  I need to sort and label the pictures!" and so on.) So I decided to just start from right now, today, and if I can keep that

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THE TRIP First, the trip was as expected--long and boring, from Louisville to Memphis, across Arkansas (blessedly short), then endlessly across Texas from Texarkana, around Dallas, then south through Waco, Austin, and San Antonio to Laredo. But Audible helps us endure.  We listened to The Widow on the way.  Good.  I'd recommend it. (Let me know if you want to access it from our

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Thought some of you might get a kick out of this commercial. For those of you who might not recognize him, the coach is John Thompson III, coach of the Georgetown Hoyas.  (I know: what's a Hoya?  Whatever it is, their mascot is a bulldog.) Bob is OD-ing on basketball--doesn't matter who's playing. He's sitting with a bag of GF pretzels.  Unfortunately, no GF beer. Bluegrass Also,

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Don't happen to have any baby pictures with us or I would post some.  Instead, here's one from our wonderful trip to Paris together: Love you and miss you a lot, especially on your birthday.

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