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…
Tzintzuntzan: Day trip to the P’urhépecha pyramids
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…
Handcrafted clothing in Patzcuaro: Exploring the Janitzio dock for special items
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
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…
Tracks on the beach: Michoacan, Mexico
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…
Remote, peaceful resting spot to enjoy nature and make some big decisions
Click on images to display full size slide show. Travel Takes A Toll We felt pretty fried after the past few days of travel and had to address some issues with the RV (oil change, radiator issues) and then stock up and boondock at the Walmart in Manzanillo, Colima before moving on. On top of…
