Hell’s Half Acre

We’re jumping in with both feet (and I really hope they’re not tied to a canon). We’ve figured out our exit plan and are prepared to loose all we put into the venture. Might be a most expensive lesson in life but we hope to at least break even. We’re going [...]

I don’t like it; not a bit.  You’d think I’d be THRILLED with the increase in value, but honestly, all it does is make me nervous and keep a sharp eye on the daily ups and downs.  I’m waiting for the bottom to drop out so I can liquidate JUST BEFOREHAND.  Sigh.  Right.  Which means [...]

We may be so far out of American pop culture that we could take lessons from the Russians, but even as isolated as we’ve allowed us to become, we know that this summer will be full of much anticiapted releases. The boys love the Spiderman series, even if it is absolutely AWFUL, we’ll find [...]

If love is like a rollercoaster, then our life lately has been in a non-stop Groundhog Day of E-ticket rides. We consider, drop the idea, consider again, drop and look around to see if anyone is filming “Groundhog Day”. We seriously looked at the possibility of investing in PaaMul and spending the [...]

While Mexico is well known as a source of cheap prescription drugs; you can walk into any farmacia and purchase the quantity of Ciprofloxacin, Flagyl and just about any drug you can imagine. Some drugs are controlled, however, and you need a doctors prescription (receta) for those. This is normally not much [...]

88.7 kilos. 164 cms. This is what I weigh. There is a machine at Soriana, that for 3 pesos will tell you your BMI, blood pressure, height, weight and something else that I didn’t get. Now, I’m finding this just a little bit hard to believe as in Minnesota I [...]

Or was it a short nuetral? At any rate it was a burnt neutral. Jamie and I spent the entire day chasing down what turned out to be a neutral problem with the 110 (AC) side of the trailer. We spent yesterday afternoon at Yal-Ku, a local lagoon with an amazing [...]

You know it is Semana Santa in Quintana Roo (that is the state of Mexico we’re in) when you see placas (license plates) from Yucatan, Oaxaca (my FIRST ever sighting!), Campeche, Jalisco, Michoacan, DF (about every other placa is from DF), Tabasco, Veracruz and one solitary truck from Belize (the country) that I helped [...]