Cultivating curiosity and wellbeing in Mexico
A personal view of Mexico, its joys, its beauties, its contradictions, and its follies.
Here is a lovely video about Zihuatanejo that will give you a great introduction to the town and flavor of our little piece of paradise. This video, accompanied by music by Zihuatanejo’s own Jose Luis Cobo, a well-loved and widely-enjoyed local songwriter and musician, presents downtown Zihuatanejo and the four Continue Reading →
We’re privileged in this area of Zihuatanejo to be within an easy day’s drive of the southern extreme of the North American monarch butterfly migration phenomenon that this video features. If you’re here in Zihuatanejo and have the time and inclination for a side trip into the mountains, it is Continue Reading →
A little paseo down memory lane for those who knew Zihuatanejo, Mexico, during the early 1970s, a series of photos taken in January 1973. Back then Zihua was a very small and lazy fishing village that stretched out only a few blocks back from the beach from Playa Municipal to Playa Madera. Continue Reading →
El Refugio de Potosi, Laguna and Barra de Potosi are all within a short drive from Ixtapa Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. Situated close to a palm and mangrove-lined estuary which is a natural sanctuary for birds and reptiles, the Visitors Center holds a small gift shop, Continue Reading →
We often like to get out of Zihua town for a couple of days, especially in hot weather, and spend time in the cool mountains of Michoacan, in Uruapan or Patzcuaro, where the nights and mornings are usually cool (or cold!) and the smells of wood smoke and resin are Continue Reading →
Northward of Zihuatanejo on the coast of the neighboring Mexican state Michoacan is the town of Caleta de Campos and the surfing community of Barra de Nexpa. We regularly take weekend trips there from Zihuatanejo for a change of scenery. The drive takes you along the coast and past the Continue Reading →
Zihuatanejo is a place where first-time visitors tend quickly to become regulars, where new-comers scheme about how to return—be it next month or next season—to stay longer, or maybe forever. Our tropical, white sanded beaches are lined with coconut palms in whose peaceful shade the unsuspecting visitor can be entrapped Continue Reading →
Mexico: A Brief Overview of its Cultural Heritage, Geography, and Climate Ancient, crumbling pyramids and ceremonial centers. Vividly-colored, handwoven rugs and textiles. Imaginatively fashioned arts and crafts. Craggy and parched cactus-studded deserts. Sun-washed, sandy beaches lining warm and ever-changing waters. Sparkling eyes flashing in golden-brown, smiling faces … this is Continue Reading →
Zihuatanejo, Troncones Beach and La Saladita are all wonderful Pacific coast destinations on the Mexican Riviera. During the rainy summer months, we often make outings to Saladita and Troncones from Zihua town on the weekends. In the height of the summer tourist season, when the kids are out of school, Continue Reading →
Sequel to yesterday’s post, Boas in the Mist. … The birds were squawking again just after dawn in the vacant lot behind our house. It was comforting to hear them farther away than yesterday morning. Continue Reading →
What a surprise to be awakened by raucous magpie jays and grackles heralding the passage of a large boa constrictor through the confines of our tropical garden in Zihuatanejo, Mexico. Continue Reading →
Spectacular sculptures representative of the Women of the various regions of the state of Guerrero, Mexico, now adorn the street corners and plazas of downtown Zihuatanejo for the enjoyment of visitors and residents alike. Continue Reading →
Zihuatanejo’s Municipal Market, or Mercado, is located on Boulevard Benito Juarez, close to the downtown core. It’s on the regular Micro bus route and anyone will point you in the right direction if you can just say “mercado” (mehr-kah-doh) It can be disconcerting to the shopper used to serve-yourself supermarket Continue Reading →