Here I Am Again

More about the area we are going to. Guaymas is a major shipping/fishing port(lots of shrimp). The pleasure fishing in the Sea of Cortez is also great apparently; according to what we have read. There are 2 large marinas in San Carlos, full of private boats. A web cam that we watch from there shows one of the marinas. The other web cam(the one I prefer) , can be controlled, and you look at whatever area you want. Usually I just look at the view of the bay, expecially when the weather here is nasty-- nice to check out the bay/boats and palm trees. Here are the links to the web cams if you would like to have a look around. http://www.marinaterra.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?Action=LoadCam&Word=994a1fc1ed682427059162dba3a3b295&Title=Vista%20Panoramica&lang=EN_US and http://www.cybercosecurity.com./webcams.html .

During our online travels we have chatted/emailed with a variety of people. When we first began to think of leaving our lovely Alberta winter, we intended to go to Belize. That is a whole other story!! We did end up talking to some very nice people though, and had the opportunity to housesit there for a month this June. We didn't have our passports ready yet and didn't want to give up our summer here and have to return home for winter. We also knew we couldn't afford to stay away right from June to next April (10 mths.)so we decided to pass it up. That was kind of disappointing.

We have chatted with people from Belize,Veracruz(Mexico),Xalpa(Mexico),Lake Catemaco(Mexico), Hermosillo(Mexico),Guaymas,and 1 who lives part-time in Empalme(Mexico) and part-time in Phoenix. On our trip down we are supposed to stop and have a quick coffee with the person we have been chatting with in Hermosillo, he has been very helpful with information about the area and various other cities. He has visitied Guaymas, as he has relatives there.

We read alot of information on various forums and these are also helpful when we have queistions that we can't find answers for elsewhere.

While we are there , of course we won't have our computer. My crystal ball shows major withdrawal in my future!! Good thing I love to read!!! We will be using internet cafes, which is the reason for this blog. We thought that it might be easier to do this rather than emailing everyone separately. We will see. I can already see that I am much more verbal on here than by email!!! This reminds me of my mother writing reams of letters at Christmas time. Something that I have never been good at!! I am happy to say that my typing is better than my handwriting so you should be able to read this!!

It should be interesting when we arrive in Guaymas, as while we are having Hallowe'en, they are also celebrating a holiday called the "Day of the Dead". This is when they honor and remember their loved ones who are no longer alive. It sounds like a beautiful celebration. Families clean and decorate their loved ones graves and celebrate their lives. This celebration lasts anywhere from 1-3 days.

Christmas there is also celebrated for a much longer time than it is here. We are looking forward to seeing and living many,many new and exciting experiences.

Well enough for now. Bye til next time.