Hola Listees,
Three weeks of sun, surf, shrimp, & dark beer was enough (for a while).
In Sayulita, when the dark rum, specifically Bacardi Anajo, was dubbed
Vitamin R, I knew it was time to roll up my tent & move on.  Eight dollars a
liter, by the way, for the best aged Bacardi.

I write from San Miguel de Allende. I arrived several days ago to
reclaim Juba, my African Gray parrot, taken in by kind friends when he was
refused re-entry last year by US Customs.  He is saucy & sleek & ordering
around my dog as usual.
San Miguel, a colonial gem of Mexico, one of the grand cities built on the
wealth of silver, has become far too colonized by Americans & Canadias to
suit me.  When the streets are no longer filled with papaya-laden donkeys &
handsome vaqueros riding into town on horseback, the place is "gone".

In a day or so I head for the state of Veracruz & the colonial/university
city of Jalapa, where I intend viewing the Olmec heads in the fine museum of
anthropology there.
After that, quien sabe?

Rumor has it that some of you are suffering a visciously cold winter--
to those of "you" I can only say that I am doing my damndest to attone.
My 85 Westy is running fine so far, so full of heart is my lovely old girl,
tho she did throw her last shoe, I mean hubcab, yesterday.  These
cobblestone roads & topes are murder on vehicles over about 5 mph.

When south of the border, I make it a point to tune out all news of the
outside world, but neverthe less, it seems likely that the evil empire does,
in fact, have a new "leader."
Madre de Dios...The lesser of two evils has finally reached synergy.

I miss you all, despite the rousisng good time I am having here.
It has been a gas hearing from some of you derelicts pmail.
Keep em coming!  Ron Bloomfield--que tal?  Karl Wolz--que pasa?
Dan Schmitz--sorry I was rushed & unable to clink glasses on my way out.
Bill Davidson--are you back on the ice?  It has been a please to get pmail
from some of you, those who are still speaking to me, that is.
Get those vanagons out of mothballs & put them to their highest & best use,
volks!!!

Viva!
Phaedra

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