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Semana Santa at the Tree of Tule in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca

March 26, 2024 by Dawn Shears

Click on a photo to view full size gallery… We took advantage of the overcast weather to take a nice walk to the middle of town to see the Semana Santa decorations and just check out what was going on. It’s about a 1.25 mi. walk from El Rancho RV Park just outside of town…

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Traveling on the new Barranca Larga-Ventanilla Autopista in Oaxaca, Mexico

March 12, 2024 by Dawn Shears

Yesterday we traveled the new Puerto Escondido/Oaxaca City hwy from the coast but we overheated about 1/3 of the way up to the summit. That first climb goes up to around 6,000′ in about 40 miles of road. That and in over 90 degree temps. We had to pull over when the engine started to…

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Day trip to La Crucecitas and the Huatulco coast

March 8, 2024 by Dawn Shears

We rented the RV park owner’s extra car for the day and went to run errands in La Crucecitas; a town about 45 minutes away from Bahia del San Agustin.  Since we had not done much sight-seeing we decided, first, to take a drive down the coast (well, here the coast runs west to east…

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Grocery Shopping For Gringos Living/Traveling In Mexico: Forget the half-and-half & dill pickles!

January 3, 2024 by Dawn Shears

After over a year of non-stop living and traveling throughout central Mexico we’ve found the need to be resourceful and flexible when planning meals to cook at home.  We love Mexico and Mexican food but also love cooking our long time favorite American, Thai, Indian and Italian dishes.  With a few adaptations and changes we’ve…

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Dia de los Muertos in Santa Maria del Tule: Oct. 28

October 28, 2023 by Dawn Shears

Some photos from our walk into El Tule today to see how the first official day of Dia de los Muertos is looking.  New murals went up, more papel picado (the colorful cut out flags) and some of the first ofredas (altars) are being built and heaped with fresh flowers and decorations.  We found a…

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Monthly Alternative Fair at the Muelle de, Urandén, Michoacan

September 4, 2023 by Dawn Shears

Just a few miles northwest of Patzcuaro, the Urandén port is a venue for the “Feria Alternativa, Pátzcuaro”. It takes place the first Sunday of every month and we would not have even known about it except for a local expat friend. It’s not on the general tourist radar but rather seemed to be comprised…

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Tzintzuntzan: Day trip to the P’urhépecha pyramids

August 18, 2023 by Dawn Shears

Photo Albums (Above: Click on a thumbnail photo to view the desired gallery)  Go back to main gallery > We decided to take a combi (public transport van) with a friend and spend the afternoon exploring Tzintzuntzan (pronounced “sen SOON san”, the ruins, ancient olive trees at the monastery grounds and scope out some of…

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Handcrafted clothing in Patzcuaro: Exploring the Janitzio dock for special items

July 10, 2023 by Dawn Shears

Shopping for items for wholesale and send to friends as gifts. I’ll buy some things for myself on the next trip.

Exploring central Patzcuaro: Amazing handcrafted clothing and items

July 2, 2023 by Dawn Shears

The quality of the handcrafted items are some of the best I’ve ever seen in Mexico. I enjoyed chatting with the vendors and hearing their stories and taking photos of the most special items that I ran across. We are now in discussions to offer some small scale wholesale shipments to the U.S. of specific…

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Tracks on the beach: Michoacan, Mexico

April 9, 2023 by Dawn Shears

Click on images to display full size slide show. The beach here is covered in turtle tracks! The last 2 images are of sandcrab tracks. I think that the turtle tracks are from green turtles…they call the subspecies here “black” turtles. The eggs will hatch in 60 days so we won’t be here to see…

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