Hell’s Half Acre

Two-E is now a Tropical Storm (Barbara) and must be the cause of the issuing of water from the sky. Normally in the rainy season we get dumped on in the afternoon but the rest of the day is sunny. I think we’ve gone two days (that’s TWO DAYS, PEOPLE!!!) without sun. [...]

Tropical depression Two-E hanging around the Pacific Coast. We’ve had rain and cloudy days for a couple days now and more in the forecast. It might sound refreshing, but what it really means is a boom in mozzies and air you can see. Humidity at 95-100% with weather in the mid 80’s [...]

We know time moves much slower down here in Mexico and things are done differently. It will generally take 3 or more tries before you can accomplish anything. But after 4 or 5 days of waiting for the palapero to show up and the security guard to tell him that we wanted [...]

You’ve been warned.
Yesterday I cleaned up the trailer, stowed everything and readied for travel. It has been SO LONG since we’ve done that I think we thought it simply Was No Longer Possible. But not only was it possible, it was surprisingly freeing! I had become so attached to the idea [...]

So, after the insane sellers of the “orange” palapa flaked out by simply refusing to respond to our emails, we became very sad and pouted for about a day. That’s when I realized that we really want to do this thing. I’m not sure why but I think the kids are just [...]

We had an amazing thunderstorm late this afternoon and the temperature plummeted into the high 70’s.  The kids put on their fleece and long pants and Ellen asked me if it was winter now.  We had a brief dip into the 60’s at night a few weeks ago (it was still very hot during the [...]

So, we’d heard horror stories about the sellers of the palapa pictured below.  We’d heard that they’d divorced and one would offer to sell the palapa and the other would refuse once all the details had been hammered out.  We’d heard the couple referred to as “Dumb and Dumber” but no-one seemed to know their [...]

I had a really wonderful day.  And I hope you did too.  Tomorrow we go back to hammering out the contract and hopefully it will all be over and we can start working on remodeling and hurricane reconstruction.

We have a signed, notarized contract from the sellers. Unfortunately, they went to the trouble of notarizing a contract they knew we disagreed with. Sometimes you have to wonder about people. We’ll see if they get the corrections made, signed and notarized again by 4pmCT today. After that we wash our [...]

Yes, friends, you’ve tuned into another epiosde of, “As the Palapa Turns”. Stay tuned to find out WHERE the family will live! Will they hit the road when their rent ends May 9th? With they kill each other in a WW3 of elbowitis? Will 300sqft over 3 years lead to absolute [...]