A week has gone by

Today marks a week of the trip, including a couple days getting here. Knowing it’s a longer trip has made this week go slow which is really nice. One of the purposes of this trip was to try to “feel” the town and get an idea of what it is like to be here longer than a 1 or 2 week vacation.
We have just been wandering, exploring, resting, reading, and more wandering. We “live” on the top of Loma Guadalupe. Like you saw in the pics, on a pretty good size hill looking over Alamos. It s a nice mix of local small modest homes, and a few newer bigger spreads like ours that have been built over the last 10 years on some of the best view lots. We have made a friend walking up the hill a few times everyday…Foxy. A local dog that looks like a large fox. He spots us coming and gets up to greet us and eagerly walks us up the hill and to the gate where we leave him each time…a great escort to help us navigate the plethora of guard dogs, street dogs, and mangy mutts that appear in the shadows at all times. They get more interested in him than us.

Each and every day so far has dawned clear, cool, and sunny. We love how it goes from cool morning to warm days and back to cool evenings….perfect weather. We have been living off two meals a day as part of a budget…and a diet. There is a small local breakfast spot in a home that has awesome huevos rancheros, or chilaquiles. I love the chilaquiles…it is basically sautéed corn tortillas with chicken and peppers in either a red, or green sauce….yum!!! Lisa of course has to have her two eggs a day.
We have mostly been stopping at street vendors (see pic) for those delicious tacos at night. We did buy a roasted chicken from the market the other day and have been making our own tacos and my homemade pico de gallo. Today, Sunday, there is a pretty large farmers market so I went down early and got some more fresh fruit and veggies, along with some homemade chorizo…can’t wait for that! Lisa has a little of Montezuma’s revenge today, so she is laying a little low. All part of the experience.

We have met a few people, just talking on the square. Mostly expat types sharing their stories of moving here, living part time here, and some of the local flavor. We hope to rent bikes still and wander a little further. We found a local Naturalist of sorts that we hope to hook up with later next week for a bird watching trip to a regional Estuary. It is Santa Semana, or Holy Week, so this and next week all of Mexico has school off and there is a great deal of travel. The beaches will crowd with locals, and Alamos here is what is known as a Nacional Pueblo Magico (Magical Pueblo) and will be visited by quite a few regional and even national Mexican tourists…should be fun. We are learning a little more about the Copper Canyon too…and will push our trip there out a week until 2 weeks after Easter just to avoid more of the national tourist/vacation crowds. So we have two weeks ahead of us here to just relax and enjoy the slow beautiful pace of Alamos…Pueblo Magico.