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Sunday, October 14th, 2007...6:11 pm


A Bit Of Housekeeping

I have spent a bit of time tending to a few blog presentation details.

Perhaps some of my five readers noticed that I added a bit of date and time java script, freely available through the internet, which should display the date and your local time at the top of the sidebar. I also added links to Xalapa,  Elma, and Merida weather reports and forecasts.

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Also I have linked to a much larger version of the uncropped header photo which shows just how lush it is hereabouts. You may find the link a few scrolls down on the sidebar.

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  • Pamela
    October 14th, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    Chris,
    I am reading you from time to time during the Cuba stay and some lately… had to get into some new ventures here that have kept me involved but certainly glad someone has a modicum of intelligence in my sphere. Keep it coming. Hope to get back to a Mexico location again next May time, will let you know and maybe we could hook up again. Will try to do it with Ian this time, you would like him and he could use a shot of you, like an expresso. Alicia is good, bought a Puch Maxi moped for running about her town. I just went up there overnight for some business. Ian bikes & skates everywhere, lives across from a Soul Food restaurant and a muslim mosque. They are in the thick of it in a city and I am glad they are not just milktoast white bread college students. Keep writing please I need a connection with someone who has the time to keep accounts on the happenings of our hemisphere. Do you think it is fair they are tearing down Vincente Fox’s statue. I liked him. I mean all Mexican officials have ventures on the side. I wish I had more energy to jabber. be well, hasta pronto, pamela

  • Gringo Loco
    October 14th, 2007 at 8:25 pm

    Hola Pamela,

    Nice to hear from you. Good to hear all is well.

    As for Fox’s statue in Boca del Rio that was toppled. I have read only one article relative to the incident which indicated the local government employees had installed the statue during the night and the next day about a hundred PRI supporters toppled it, one dancing on the fallen Fox.

    So, really, I don’t know much of the subject. Fox, as you will remember, jumped the PRI fence some year ago and was elected president under the PAN banner, thus handing the PRI its first defeat in seventy some years.

    Saludos a todos, incluyendo Ross.

  • Theresa
    October 17th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

    Hi, I was feeling whistful after I clicked on the lush photo. But how cold does it get there in the winter? Right now, Merida is in the 80s during the day and 70s at night. Just perfect in my book.
    We are planning on doing some traveling through out Mexico this year and Veracruz and Jalapa are on the agenda.

    Theresa

  • Gringo Loco
    October 17th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

    Hi Theresa,

    Nice to hear from you. These days in Xalapa the high is in the high 70s or low 80s.

    Last Winter throughout December and January I slept under a down comforter.

    Last October 29 Xalapa experienced the lowest temperature for an October day in thirty years. The low was 42.4.

    If you are here during the Winter you will want to bring along a medium weight jacket or sweater if you plan to be out in the evening.

    Of course, you should also bring an umbrella, as there are often showers in the afternoons.

    I find the weather here to be very agreeable.

  • Gringo Loco
    October 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    Oh I forgot, the lows these day are around 60.

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