by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
I can’t leave this part of Mexico without commenting on Manzanillo. If you’ve been exposed to North American culture, and are over the age of 35…then with or without realizing it, you know about Manzanillo. Especially if you saw Dudley Moore and Bo Derek in “10”. I...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 28, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’m still sore. It’s been 48 hours since I got off “that horse”, but my arms, shoulders and area from waist to knee still feel him. Here’s how it went…We are driving along “en famille”after a trip into Melaque for some basic provisions. Before we left Canada we...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
At spring break a great horde of northern, North America dwellers line up at airports in Canada and the US and board airplanes for Maui, Mazatlan, Cancun, Los Angeles, and Barbados. We migrate to the southern United States, Hawaii or Mexico. As fast as our little...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Mar 25, 2013 | Uncategorized
Where I come from there are forty different ways to describe rain. There are ways to describe the size of the rain drops. Different methods to describe the rain’s velocity. It’s direction. It can rain and have blue sky at the same time. But that’s extremely rare...
by Carmen G. Farrell | Sep 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
…signs of “re-entry”to my native habitat from a long absence: 1. I can’t find my car keys anywhere…they’re somplace “safe”. Oh boy, those keys are so safe it took days and days to recover them. 2. Nice friends are...