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Lost in Color Hotel Plaza de Mazatlan
In the hotel lobby, each day, this artist/craftsman unfolds two tables. He is dipping his brush into color and applying paint as I watch. When done with one color, he cleans his brush in a glass of water, wipes the residue off with a towel, then switches...
Marina Norte Cheap Mexican home on the water
There are several marinas in Mazatlan. The northern marina tends towards pleasure while the southern marina gravitates towards work. This Sunday the only event that draws skippers off their boats are NFL playoffs on high def TVs in bars and...
Old Guys with Bicycles Mar Rosa RV Park, Mazatlan
Our original trip concept was to take RVs to Mexico, stay on the beach a month, drink beer, and check out bikinis. Our original destination was to be San Carlos, Mexico - up the coast north from Mazatlan. There was a RV park already picked out. But...
Americans in Mazatlan Green is most everyone's favorite color
In the morning, before ten, the beaches are empty except for romantics, beachcombers, and elderly walking their dogs. Around this place, people stay up late, dance into the late hours, have a few too many drinks, keep everyone at the hotel awake as they...
Steins, Arizona Murder Pulling off the freeway
I-10 takes you to Los Angeles if you stay on it all the way. Out of Wilcox, Arizona the Interstate takes you along a steadily winding uphill road that goes from long flat expanses to foothills and into rugged mountains. Several miles before you get to...
L.A. Car Repairs Check maintenance light blues
Your chariot has to be tuned up to keep you in the Los Angeles race. You aren't going to get anywhere in this L.A. burg without a good set of wheels, a team of rested and well fed horses, and enough time to get where you are going through a maze of...
California Shopping Mall Ontario, California
The shopping mall is not only a metaphor for the Christmas season, but a melody. Jingle bells ring from inside closed stores as a security pickup patrols and deliveries are made to the back door. Stores open at ten in the morning and stay open till ten...
Tour Day at Hotel Aranjuez Just waiting for the bus
Half of the world is in winter with temps in the teens, or worse. Here, it is seventies with humidity but the sun shines more often than it hides. Jose, at the front desk, says it is busy in San Jose most of the year and his hotel has more visitors from...
Lunch Talk at 30,000 feet Man on a medical mission
Even though airline food is made for a small eater, in a miniature container with small utensils,it is appreciated. The passenger seated next to me feels like talking, listening costs me nothing, and, at 30,000 feet up, since I'm not going...
Hotel Talk/ Ramon Massini Suites/ Pocitos A typical day
Tourist days come in all kinds of packages. You are sleeping in strange rooms, surrounded by people you don't know, eating food on the go that your stomach doesn't recognize. There is television in a different language, obsessing with schedules, making...
Coffee Sign/Hotel Massini Lobby Lobby of Massini Suites, Montevideo
This coffee is cheap, but not the best. You buy a dollar token at the hotel reception desk, drop the token in the coffee machine's slot, slide your cup in position, choose your poison, push a button, and wait as a small drizzle of coffee fills your...
The Bill Nailed down/ 1950’s Remembered Pocitos diner
Pocitos doesn't awake until ten in the morning. My first time past the little diner on the corner, a block from the beach, the sign in the window says Cerrado. Doubling back, Albierto is now in its place. A plaque on the exterior says this establishment,...
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