Mazatlan mid December 2024 - March, 2025.


Hello friends and family.

Our friend, Mardi, is introducing you to Mazatlan, our 2024-2025 warm winter place. Mazatlan is the only seaside city in Mexico with a colonial center.

 

This is the view from our condo's pool area - hot tube and warm pool - fabulous for me (read old, arthritic bones).

 
 
Steve is sending you a toast from Centro Historico, the main square (not that we drink anymore):
 
 
 
The old colonial buildings have shrubs and trees growing out of the old masonry. Roots take hold in the tiny crevices.

 
 There are lots of shrimp and fish restaurants on the beach:
  
 
The newly opened whale museum is next o my list:

Steve and nephew Rhett enjoyed a fried fish dinner nearby: - best ever they said:

Sunsets are often spectacular:

 

Walks on the beach are good for keeping our feet limber and our bodies exercised - especially when our joggler nephew, Rhett, is around juggling on the jog. Did you know there are international joggling meet-ups?


Mazatlan is the only coastal city with an old colonial center. We see this home near the oceanfront. No water in the fountain and the statues need some help, but it's a fun vision of thing a more elaborate past with lots of stained glass windows and bas relief all over:


We took a very comfortable bus ride, passed lots of agave and mango fields on our
medical tourism trip to Guadalajara. We got wonderful stem cell therapy from an Orthopedic Surgeon and some dental help for less than the home cost even with dental insurance.


Rhett and Steve in the cathedral in Mazatlan:

 
 
The old folks at home (and on the move, a slow gentle move):

Note the crude stick-like supports. Also note the cross for blessings: I think they need all the blessings they can get with those wood posts for support under the heavy concrete patios.

It's chilly here this year.







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The food here is all good to excellent. The sunsets are wonderful and the warmth is fantastic! We went to an organic market Saturday - very fun - and met Gordon Campbell, a conductor who the theater here is named after. Heard a lovely concert this afternoon - Dvorak, Albeniz and more. The theater is European elegant.


This is one of the things we don't like - lots of armed police/army, although they are very friendly and smile at us if we greet them on the malecon.

Here is one of the best things of all:


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