its a Norte

   Hello again everyone. We have moved into that time of year again "its a Norte".  This time of year it cools off and the bugs come out.  The water goes flat.  It makes for good sleeping as long as you have good screens.  I like this time of year.  We get allot of rain, good fills the cisterns, bad makes the road worse.  The fish are running out by the pier and allot of the town go fishing.  We are coming up on season and everyone is hopping we get allot of tourist this year.  Xcalak if one of the best Fly fishing spots in Mexico.   It is also a great dive location with the reef just off shore.  We have 3 new restaurants here this year.  The Xcalak Lobster House that will be run by the fishing co-op. They tell me they will have a bar too. XTC dive center is opening a restaurant on 2 floors with upper seating area. The building that was the Leaky Palapa has a new owner and has been completely remade, i don't know what the name of the restaurant will be.  I do know the owner had put lots of money in to it and it looks great.  So good reasonably priced food is something we are looking forward to.  Lorrie and I cant wait to have a place we can meet and eat with our friends.  If you want to hang with the Olldhippie you will have to come to one of the new restaurants.  We are looking forward to meeting new friends this season.  My family ask if we are OK all the time.  They see all the BS on the news about how bad things are in Mexico.  Shootings all over the place.  Xcalak is so far away from all that.  The people here so so great.  We have never felt like we where in any danger here.  All we feel is the love from our Mexican friends.  There are some very big guys here who look like they could take you apart. But they are some of the most fun loving guys you would ever want to meet.  i am very proud to call them my friends. They take care of us and would never let anything happen to us.  We love our little town.  So if you have not come to Mexico because you see all the news about killings.  You need to come to Xcalak. Lorrie and I lived in Detroit and man that is a bad place. Anytime we go to the states we cant wait to come back to small fishing village.   Now on to our girls.  They are doing well and growing fast.

Coco pup is such a sweet girl and our guard dog. She has such a deep growl. She is was the runt and is now the bigger of the two.  She loves to hug and lay with us and she is a great bed dog. She get in her spot at the foot of the bed and stays there. She wants to please.

Celee is the queen.  She sit around like she owns the house.  She loves to hug too but she wants it when she wants it.  She has the girly figure and like to take things to play with. She is not a good bed dog.  She feels that the bed is hers and we should move out of her way.

We love them both so much.  Pit Bulls are such great dogs in the way the interact with their owners. The way they watch your face and seam to understand what you say.

So life in Xcalak moves on with us and our girls in tow.  We will always love it here and hope that all of you will come just once to see how life at he end of the road is such fun

Sin Duda Under New Management

After living here in Xalak for so long we have seen lot of people come and go.  There is always some one new every year who is going to move here to live.  Most don't last a year.  See life here is not the Paradise everyone thinks it is.  It takes a very special person to live like we do year round.  But this year we have lost two of our very special long term friends.  Margo and Robert have sold Sin Duda Villas and will be living in Merida.  The new owners are two great friends and we love it that they will be here full time now.  Dave and  Lesley we welcome you with open arms and open hearts.  Margo and Robert (mom and dad) you have been so much more than just friends to us.  You where the ones we turned to when life threw us down and kicked us in the teeth.  you help us when others would not and believed in us even after so many lies where told about us. I know you are still there for us and just up the road (5 hours) but we will miss you so very much.  This town will never be the same without you.  We thank you both so very much for the help and the love.  We wish you only the best and are always here if you need us.   Now don't think that Sin Duda will just fall by the wayside.  Dave and Lesley are very cool and fun people and we are looking forward to see what new things they have to add to Sin Duda and to Xcalak.  We met them some years back as they have been coming down to vacation here. We always liked them but vacationers come and go so often you just start to get to know someone and they are gone. Se we are so looking forward to really getting to know them.  Here is the web site to look at Sin Duda.  It is a great place to stay.  Hey maybe we will get to meet you if you come down. http://www.sindudavillas.com/

PS as for our Mexican Pit bull puppies they are doing great I will post more pics soon

Well time go's on and heals all

Hello Everyone

Well time go's on and heals all.  We have had some hard times but if you stay with it most of the time things will get better.
  We have had friends turn on us for no good reason.  We have had our dog die.  We have had times with no money.   But when all is said and done.  We still love Xcalak.  I am sorry I have not blogged more but I let things get to me.  But in the end there is and has always been me and Lorrie.  We are a team and we do work well together.  I am sorry for all the time and effort some have put into trying to pull us down to their level and it not working.  All i can say is get happy with your self and maybe you can let others be happy.  So many are just so unhappy with their lives and their partners that the only way they can cope is to try and make others unhappy.  Well it did not work.  We love the town and people of Xcalak.  It is just a nice place to live.  The Mexican people are great it is the outsiders with their nose in the air who need to go.  We who live here year round and do not hide in our fortress have a great life here.  OK that out of my system lets say i would love to have everyone come to Xcalak just once and see how simple life can really be.  I have lived in the push button world i worked on computers, I have ran companies. I will tell you this. we make life so hard on ourselves.  We buy into all the BS on TV. You must have this new phone or car or all the other stuff. Living in a town with no phone, no ATM, no 7/11 shit my house I rent don't even have an address.  We get no mail so no bills......well we do get a power bill but we have to go to the western union to get it but it is only about $20 for 2 months.  So what i am saying is life here is slow and ease and there is just a good feeling you get living in a small town of under 500 people.     So if you ever wanted to stay at a place and really really relax you must try Xcalak.  If you dive or Fly fish or just want to walk the beach.  If you want to be nude on the beach we even have a nudist resort.  Life at the end of the road is great has been great for us Olldhippies.

PS we have 2 new girls in our family now.  We got them at 3 weeks old so you know we have had our hands full.   They are now just over 6 weeks old and doing good.

Coco pup

Celee

Mexican Pitbull pups