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Peaceful days, walking, talking and blue blue sky | Day 353 of my 2023 Journal
Sometimes, these peaceful days, even with all the adventure, are hard to describe. It all seems a bit banal when jotting it down in my journal. But really, this is the life I want.
Oh the sunrises over La Ventana | Day 352 of my 2023 Journal
In La Ventana, it made a lot of sense to get up at five in the morning to enjoy the sunrise from pitch dark over extreme beauty to bright daylight. Every day.
In La Ventana, we took turns going down with a virus, fevers, and loss of voice.
In La Ventana, we took turns going down with a virus, fevers, and loss of voice.
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Happy Days in La Ventana | Day 351 of my 2023 Journal
What does it mean to be happy? Often, we donāt stop to understand it while it is ongoing; we trot along and live, only to realize how much we had the moment we lost it.
Wild West Walk in La Ventana | Day 350 of my 2023 Journal
Two hours of planning and negotiations of who was coming and who was not finally got us out walking. Not far, and not all of us, as some are down with some virus, but still, we wanted to get out there and do something other than just stayin in the beautiful house!
La Ventana: Welcome to Baja Sur | Day 349 of my 2023 Journal
Life is this. The moving around. The people we move for. Reaching out to the opportunities, taking what is, and appreciating all the big and little gifts of life. It seems obvious right now the right thing is to enjoy the fantastic nature around us and the people we get to share the experience with.
In transit again: GoingĀ to Baja Sur, California| Day 348 of my 2023 Journal
I scored eight out of ten on the travel score sheet of my son-in-law, as I had brought a knife in the packed lunch - the knife took my two last points. Everything else went so smoothly that it was hard to understand.
Casa Azul: The Frida Kahlo museumĀ | Day 347 of my 2023 Journal
Goodbye, Mexico City. That was fun! And exhausting. We want to come back, but we are also eager to leave. It is intense to visit the huge cities.
We experienced an earthquakeĀ | Day 346 of my 2023 Journal
The central story of this day is the earthquake. Thank God we have no pictures. Because there was nothing to take photos of. Except for a lot of people in the streets.
The waiting Monday | Day 345 of my 2023 Journal
It is nice to sometimes just have a practical day. We needed papers to travel with the dogs, so Silke and I walked to the local vet; smiling, professional, and friendly, she helped us with the paperwork, and we had the pleasure of meeting a real wolf in the waiting room. It was also a day of waiting, as Liv and Erik would arrive in the early evening.
The long walk of CDMX | Day 344 of my 2023 Journal
The classic pilgrimage to the main art museum, the cathedral, the central square, and the Aztec ruins took us through a rich array of experiences. The market for handmade artifacts, some amazing and some cheap stuff for tourists. The dodgy area where people live in tents in the streets.
Fragmented Impressions | Day 343bof my 2023 Journal
I just wanted to include more images from the same day. The streets with their shiny buildings contrasting the little cargo-bike-food stalls, the architecture of the Anthropological Museum, the London style busses - so many impressions. See them here!
Beating Hearts - Museum of Anthropology | Day 343 of my 2023 Journal
I titled this āBeating Heartsā because the Aztecsā human sacrifice took out the still beating heart of 52 humans EVERY DAY (according to our guide)! Head and heart were offered to the gods; the rest ended in the soup.
Frida, the streets, the buildings | Day 342 of my 2023 Journal
The first step in Mexico City was to take it in the city. A good way to do it while not wasting time is to visit an art museum. Mexican art is like nothing we have seen in Europe. It IS different, consistently, different somehow in the same way, or in a parallel manner, or am I just making it up?
Have no Fear | Day 341 of my 2023 Journal
I am not afraid. I am insecure about how to find my way in this context, how to find solid information in most here-and-now contexts, and how to balance this search with a no-fear strategy. As it happens, life itself seems to save me every time, leaving me with only fairly easy options, enough lovely people, and time to take it slow.
Mexican Mind Mystery | Day 340 of my 2023 Journal
The story goes (the one I know) that the Huichol people, who make this sort of art, took the peyote juice to enter a state of transcendence in order to be able to talk to the gods. And once back from what we would call an acid trip, they would share what they saw by making this kind of colorful art.
Gated Community how Exotic | Day 339 of my 2023 Journal
Everything can be an adventure, even this. For us Europeans, a REAL gated community with a guard, actually several guards, is seriously exotic. We had to show ID and share who we were visiting, and they had to, in advance, let the guards know we were coming.
Volunteer work and a windowless Airbnb | Day 338 of my 2023 Journal
It is truly overwhelming how fast San Miguel de Allende is unfolding for us. One of the game-changing things is that there is not much ego energy. It is all real people with good balance and perspective, all interested and interesting, with a path, mission, and solid values.
The trampoline park and more new friends | Day 337 of my 2023 Journal
It was a lovely morning after the game-changing party, convincing us we had finally found the place with the right vibe and the right people to stay longer when we did not feel like traveling.
Roaring Twenties: A party to convince us we are home | Day 336 of my 2023 Journal
This was the final drop: We are now convinced San Miguel de Allende is the right place for us to have our winter breaks and find our new community and base.
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Cancer-surviving psychologist, former single-parent; co-sleeping, yogi, gluten-free, primarily plant-eating; happily married, stay-at-home, organic barefooted hippie and mother of four, living in a bus, knitting teddy bears and learning languages, counseling and enjoying sunsets.
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