Our Story To Date

OK. Let's get the boring part out of the way. On June 24, 2011 I left a depressing unrewarding high stress job in Washington State (No it wasn't in Nowhere, WA just close by).

Actually it was not all that bad of a job as things go in the United States. Certainly didn't pay very well but it was technically interesting and actually helped to make this world a bit better place. BUT the job was killing me quite literally. I was 63 ½ years old and was not at all sure that I would live to be 64 (Spoiler: I did).

So I retired. Sheri and I spent October–December of 2011 in Costa Rica as “Snow Birds” and did the same January-March of 2013. A fantastic country, Costa Rica. Not your stereotypical Latin American Nation – but we had always wanted to live in Mexico so we did an exploratory three week trip to Ajijic in Dec2013/Jan2014, really loved Ajijic and snow-birded in six month increments for three years (2014, 2015, 2016). Generally October through March.

And in December of 2016 we decided we wanted to live here full-time. So we canceled our short term rental, acquired our Residente Temporal, and started leasing year around.

There must be something about December. In December of 2019 we bought a house in the western side Ajijic, in the La Huerta subdivision. Basically we decided to stop dating Mexico and marry her. We have spent a lot of effort to upgrade it to what we want, to be the Mexican house Sheri and I had talked about owning since our trip to Cabo San Lucas in 1994.

That's pretty much it for now. In a few days I'll post about the attitude change that occurs with home ownership, 

Just Starting Out

Well we are living in Ajijic these days.

It's June 4th and Jalisco just started to ease lock-down restrictions a bit. So for no rationale reason I decided to start a blog.

Just therapeutic journaling for my sake, and a place to express my allegedly oddball humor.

. . . Sheri and I ventured out of Casa Thompsons this evening to a local restaurant called St. Remy's.  A French restaurant about 1/2 mile from our home. we hadn't been there before and thought it might be a good way to start out the next stage of our lives. Excellent and overpriced food and drinks, beautiful scenery, quiet peaceful weather and all that. And such was the evening.

But there likely be a change in Ajijic. Just a feeling in the air that “normal” has altered, tomorrow's dawn will be slightly askew, that we (the community) will be forced to adapt quickly.

Nothing that I fear, hard times builds strong relationships and stronger communities. But change is rarely easy.

More tomorrow,