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Barba Negra, El Vagabundo de la Playa
When My 18 year old son and I arrived in Mazatlan it was the height of the dry season, however the only thing dry was the jungle, we were both drenched, natures sauna cleaning your pores. The heat and humidly this time of year required any and all outdoor activities to be conducted only in areas where you were wafted by the constant ocean breezes or actually submersed in the water itself. We spent our time between the water, beach front cantinas and air conditioned comfort, it was in the beach front cantinas we replenished the liquids that continuously flowed from every inch of our skin.
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Zen Road Trip
After completing my most recent foray into the English-speaking world, I discovered that I have had a complete shift in my personal reality. Six months in Mazatlan is the longest period of time I have immersed myself within this open and friendly culture.
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Eat Street
One of the things I love about Mazatlan is abundance of food available to you when out for an evening stroll. The carts are absent during the day, but as soon as the sun goes down, the streets mysteriously fill with food vendors like moon flowers blooming at dusk. Snickers Catches One
Well...Snickers the Wonder Dog actually managed to catch a rather large Iguana today. We were on our afternoon bicycle ride, I on the bike and Snickers following along behind; she doesn’t have her own bike yet. I am not sure how she managed to corner and capture the damn thing, but it was (and still is), about one meter long. When I realized she was not right next to me or even close behind me, I stopped and looked back to see her in the lizard hunting mode, about 50 meters away.
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Beware! Mexico is Dangerous!
Not for the reasons most people think. I have no fear of armed marauders, highwaymen, con men, or the like. What I'm referring to is more insidious. I'm talking about the real danger in Mexico - Addiction! Spending time in Mexico can leave you battling a number of addictions. |
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Chicken Little
At first, I thought, “Ho-hum, just another chicken place.”
But that was before I tasted Gustavo Gama’s succulent salt, herb and mustard encrusted pollo rostizado, a far cry...
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Beet Greens
Mazatlán’s new Mercado Orgánico is a huge success! It pleases me so much to know that so many pantries in Mazatlán are becoming “the natural pantry.” Many of...
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Kitchen Magicians
From the outside, the stores look like a jumble of stuff: garbage cans and laundry hampers, wooden rolling pins and planters, molcajetes and margarita glasses, flowered clay piggy...
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Bgotcha's Got It Going On
Playing an innovative mix of blues and jazz, Bgotcha took the Mazatlán music scene by storm this season. The band members (Mexico City bassist Daniel Sanchez, Northern California...
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On Being Canadian, Eh
ALMOST everyone knows that Canadians do not live in igloos and don’t get to work, school or go shopping by dog sled or horse and buggy; television, social...
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Reciben la educación en escuelas de cartón320 niños toman clases en improvisados salones, sin agua, luz, techo, en piso de tierra, en el Fraccionamiento Santa Fe
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Buscarán crédito para vendedoresBuscarán crédito para vendedores
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Letras con tierraLos estudiantes de un kínder llegan la escuela y entran a su salón en una casa abandonada, mientras sus compañeros de primaria toman clases en...
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Mexico-Guatemala join efforts on rightsCalderón: The border should be a place of cultural exchange
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State backing native womenCalderón: The border should be a place of cultural exchange
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OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS REPORT RELEASEDMexican gov’t was not told about the ATF’s plan
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Michoacán gov’t is supporting producersMexican gov’t was not told about the ATF’s plan
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Nation ranks low on HIVMexican gov’t was not told about the ATF’s plan
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Duarte: Future looks promisingVeracruz Governor Javier Duarte de Ochoa said Monday that the government of the state is working, along with society and government agencies, to improve the...
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New program, a ‘game changer’Expats in the US will be able to invest in Mexico
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Obama to keep seeking amnestyUS Pres. commits to fight for immigration reform
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ATF kept US Embassy in darkExposed cable: New evidence on ‘Fast & Furious’
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FCH pledges quality education‘Our commitment is with Mexico, with the people’
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