La Penita

It's 11:00 am. Barb and I are in our big red chairs in her livingroom eating breakfast and watching the Sens game. Barb and her boys are real fans. They text each other throughout the games, and this is an important one because if the Sens don't win they're out of the finals, unless some team loses tonight. I don't understand the details, but I'm happy to join the excitement. After getting up at 7:00, having coffee on the roof of the casita, watcing birds and an iguana then biking around Rincon and walking to downtown La Penita to pick up some groceries, I'm ready to get out of the heat and spectate. Barb has the fan on, there's a good breeze coming through the window and the Sens just scored the first goal,so all's well.  Barb's nerves have gone from shattered to only slightly crazed. 

We came here from Guadalahara in an air conditioned Primera Plus bus, over the Sierra Madres, down through agave and cane fields and along the winding coastal road to La Penita. As the door opened, the hot air greeted us like an old friend. And this evening, Barb and I will join two of her friends for margaritas, so I'm finally having a real Mexican holiday. Barb and I have had some good late afternoon swims in the Pacific and lovely evenings, so I'd be a real 'cvetcher' if I complained about the heat after only a few days of it, but I will. It was so hot this morning that I was perspiring before I even got on the bike.  This trip has been an experience of extremes, from so cold at night, at about 6,000 feet in Guanajuato, that I wore all my warm clothes to bed for three nights, to so hot at sea level in La Penita that I can hardly wiggle into my bathing suit to go swimming I'm so sweaty. 

I'm spending my last days enjoying my time with Barb, who is very happy at this moment because the Sens just beat the Flyers.  

Barb watering plants on the roof of the casita behind her casa. This is where we have our morning coffee and rest in the shade at any time.  You can look out over the river and see all sorts of birds, up a palm at an iguana or to the right over the jolly barnyard at horses, pigs, roosters and chickens.