Destroying the Jungle
"It sounds," he said, "like they are destroying the jungle."
"They are," I replied.
And, they are.
Every morning we hear giant equipment plowing through the jungle where a development company is creating their version of San Pancho.
Lemmus,...
We Wish You a Merry
You always think, or hope, that holidays are going to be special, memorable.
And, then, they all kind of blend into one year, one Christmas. You can't remember if that was 1978 or 1984, or the year that Grandma fell in the garage, or the St. Bernard...
Please pass the gravy
(Note: This is a rerun, written several years ago, in Massachusetts, where the Hahns celebrate the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It has nothing to do with San Pancho, obviously, but I thought you'd enjoy it.)
We’re off to Athol today. Athol, of all...
Bumper cars on Tercera del Mundo
Okay, I did it. I demolished the bumper on our car.
Thanks to the building of a new Tercera del Mundo (the main street in San Pancho), I ripped that sucker right off. Well, not totally off. Just enough off to make the parking lights point down at...
Burglarized in broad daylight
When she asked me my religion, I wondered what that had to do with being burglarized.
"It's just on every government form," I was told. Okay, but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Yesterday I was at the Ministerio Publico, sort of a police station...
Malecon has the blues
San Pancho had a beautiful malecon on the beach, courtesy of a development company that added a mural, plants, lamp posts, benches, even changing rooms. For a year, they watered the flowers, trimmed the trees, swept the leaves. Yes, it was beautiful....
It's all about verbage
Word lovers cringe when a noun (like task) is turned into a verb ("I've been tasked to take out the garbage").
Now comes ... coffeed.
From a waitress at a restaurant ... "You will all be coffeed in just a minute."
Coffeed? How about being...
Watch Out for the Bull!
It all started today, predawn and at first light, the biggest celebration San Pancho has. It will be loud from today through Sunday the third of October. San Pancho Days!
San Pancho … short for San Francisco … named to honor Saint Francis of Assissi,...
Will they go home to roost?
Opened my office door the other day just in time to see a chicken flying down the hall ... chased by a large golden dog!
I grabbed the dog, put him in the office, closed he door and went to find Curt.
"What's going on," he asked.
"There's a...
Banana Man
In San Miguel de Allende the man who sharpened knives peddled his bike up and down each street. To be sure you knew he was coming, he used a high pitched whistle.
So when I heard that same whistle here in San Pancho, I grabbed my biggest kitchen...