Most of Mexico does not follow Daylight Saving Time, so we are now 2 hours behind the time at home...
Routine life here includes a lot of walking, and buying fruit on the street. Local cinemas are a 50 cent bus ride away, then charge only C$2.50 for first-run like "Brooklyn". Remember the movie "Red Violin"? Do you think they'll remake it to "Red Tuba"? Dozens of musicians stroll the shore and streets. And now that the equinox is a week away, the sun sets directly east-west, grazing the balcony.
The weather changed drastically this week. While Toronto had record warmth, here we had record cold (50F) and it actually snowed nearby; as the astonished headline said "this is not Russia"! We had to put on the few warm clothes we carry --- even to do the dishes. Then heavy rains came too, flooding the streets and creating streams of garbage.
The pounding waves have not let up for weeks. Awesome to watch, but shore businesses and walkways are being swept away. That familiar gringo helped out but ultimately rows of palapas also were destroyed. The wild surf even slams the famed malecon boardwalk --- is this a shoal-in-one?
The massive undertow also swept away a teenager (17) who thought he could handle it. The body washed ashore a mile down-current, right in front of a popular restaurant strip along our walk. Nothing the police could do except the paperwork. A group of women ---- mother? sister? aunt? --- were inconsolable at the scene, with an ironic rainbow in sight. But incredibly, the shroud on the stretcher was left alone for an hour. A reminder that in the end all of us are alone?? A very solemn morning --- much easier to contemplate the birds and the sea....
Routine life here includes a lot of walking, and buying fruit on the street. Local cinemas are a 50 cent bus ride away, then charge only C$2.50 for first-run like "Brooklyn". Remember the movie "Red Violin"? Do you think they'll remake it to "Red Tuba"? Dozens of musicians stroll the shore and streets. And now that the equinox is a week away, the sun sets directly east-west, grazing the balcony.
The weather changed drastically this week. While Toronto had record warmth, here we had record cold (50F) and it actually snowed nearby; as the astonished headline said "this is not Russia"! We had to put on the few warm clothes we carry --- even to do the dishes. Then heavy rains came too, flooding the streets and creating streams of garbage.
The pounding waves have not let up for weeks. Awesome to watch, but shore businesses and walkways are being swept away. That familiar gringo helped out but ultimately rows of palapas also were destroyed. The wild surf even slams the famed malecon boardwalk --- is this a shoal-in-one?
The massive undertow also swept away a teenager (17) who thought he could handle it. The body washed ashore a mile down-current, right in front of a popular restaurant strip along our walk. Nothing the police could do except the paperwork. A group of women ---- mother? sister? aunt? --- were inconsolable at the scene, with an ironic rainbow in sight. But incredibly, the shroud on the stretcher was left alone for an hour. A reminder that in the end all of us are alone?? A very solemn morning --- much easier to contemplate the birds and the sea....
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