Looks wonderful Carlos.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Well, it's my last day in Puerto Vallarta. Currently 75°F (23.9°C), climbing to 90°F (32.2°C) with rain expected about 3 local (mountain) time. Looking at 5 more properties today, then taking a bus to Guadalajara. It should be about 70f (21.1°C) when I arrive there. I will not be spending any time there. Just overnight stop to catch a bus to Auguascalients. Yes, I am going to hot water. That's my family's ancestral home, and there is still a large clan of my maternal family there.

Little note, I don't like the Celsius temperature system. If I set the room's thermostat at 22°C it gets too warm. If I set it at 21°C, it gets too cold. I typically like to keep my thermostat at 70°F. The Celsius degrees are just too big.

Sounds good to be enjoying the warmth Carlos while here it's just frosty mornings with a cold howling wind blowing during the day (it has to be snowing somewhere down south). Though today a bit of that falling wet stuff is expected to break the monotony.

Cheers.

Long day. I was up at 4, saw many houses in Puerto Vallarta, including one that I might make an offer on. Now 9:30. The bus ride was much longer than scheduled. But I am glad I did it. Nearly all of the drive was through rainforest. Mangoes and bananas were growing wild as far as the eye could see. It was worth it. Now in Guadalajar just for the night. This is Mexico's second biggest city. It's a city. While there is beauty, parks, and Renaissance architecture, it's still a city.

Sauregurkenzeit (sour cucumber time) is the proverbial time of the year when since ancient times food became scarce; the following harvest still weeks away. But yet... freshly pickled cucumbers are already available.

Later this proverb was used to describe the high summer season, when people are abroad for holidays, businesses almost closed down, capitals void of politicians, creative artists away, looking for new inspirations... Ultimately, journalists don't know what to write about. Every blurry photo of an escaped leopard-spotted kitten is worth a headline: Dangerous predators roaming freely, Watch out!; special TV broadcasts...

The English call it Silly Season.

News on escaped tigers and dinosaurs are urgently needed. A monster python in a Berlin park maybe? UFOs? I haven't heard about the UFO phenomenon in the U.S. for months now...

I haven't heard about the UFO phenomenon in the U.S. for months now...

They gathered at a particular white house.

We got off to a lightly frosted 0C (felt like -2C) start while 15C is expected and I'm not expecting to see much in the rain gauge at 9am.

It should be a nice sunny day with just a gentle breeze so I may get out of my warm cocoon and inspect the village before enjoying a LLB at the pub.

Cheers.

It is a nice sunny but cool morning 18C.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

In Aguascalientes, central Mexico, it is currently 15°C/59°F, expecting rain, and a high of 25°C/77°F.

In the previous days we had long periods of constant rain; amounting to more than 60 liters (~2.5in). It's raining heavily again now. So the drought is stopped for a while... still way below longtime averages but they don't have to water the street trees for weeks at least.

After a foggy and frosty -1C (felt like -5C) start and the mercury here reached our expected 16C (felt like 13C) before these clouds started turning up with the falling wet stuff not all that far away. We're likely going to be in for a soggy night.

Cheers.

Two in the morning local. Some fireworks woke me. But trying to go back to sleep.

Well Thor and his light'n'sound show arrived here around 7pm last night before departing just before 5am this morning leaving us with a very soggy ground and overflowing water tanks after dumping 29.75mm on us.

So Good Friday got off to a sunny 7C (felt like 5C) start this morning and as a few clouds again begin to build up on the horizon it's now 11C (feels like 9C) with 13C being our target for today.

Anyhow it's time for 1 more coffee.

Cheers.

It's raining all over the world. I just experienced a downpour like I never had before. The streets around me were over a foot deep for about 30 minutes. It took the storm drains that long to deal with the water. It was like being under a fire hose. Going out to see the dams serving this area. The flood gates should be flowing for days.

People told me about rain in Costa Rica and that it's different than anything we know. We think two inches a day is a rare catastrophe which occurs each ten years in our lowlands.

I have been in Costa Rica and Panama. Panama usually has daily rain, but it is not as heavy as what I had last night. It usually falls around 2-3 in the afternoon like clockwork. I am not sure what weather pattern I am experiencing. All I can call it is cold and wet. Not a tropical rain at all.

Perhaps monsoon season, in SoCal we have the summer thunderstorms coming up from the gulf. Victor may be getting plastered if the weather radar was correct.

Off to San Miguel de Allende. Currently, 52°F in both Aquascalients and in SMA. I should arrive in SMA around 2, when it's expected to be 75°F. This will be my first time in SMA, and I only know 2 people: a high school classmate who retired there and an artist friend. On paper, it looks like a good place to retire, but I am also hearing from locals that it's a city for the ultra-wealthy and has a high crime rate. That was not as told in the States. Well, that's why I am looking.

A nice sunny morning here 22C with 31C in the forecast.

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With each crime and every kindness we birth our future.

Currently 58°F / 14 °C rising to 75°F / 24 °C. The sky is cloudy, then thunderstorms are developing this afternoon. My room has a commanding view of the city and skyline. Last night, the lighting treated me to a wonderful light show. I like this city.