Rejoining Myung in Guanajuato, Mexico

Well, Myung finally got here. For a while it seemed the stars were lined up against us. It’s a long story which came down to the last day when she was at the Tokyo airport, connecting to her flight from Tokyo to Mexico City, when they told her she needed an onward ticket out of Mexico. WHAAAT! Nowhere did it say anything about that. I happened to wake up around 1 AM and checked to see if something else may have gone wrong (I told you, it’s a long story), and there was an email from her telling me about this. In short, I Skyped her and then bought a refundable ticket right then. She got on the plane, got here fine, and I got my refund.

Funny thing, it was cheaper to fly to Guanajuato than Mexico City. So, we met up in Guanajuato.
If you read my earlier post about the first time I was in Guanajuato, you know (or maybe you knew anyway) it’s a lovely, romantic city, a good place to meet up after a long dry spell and a good place to begin as a tourist in Mexico. The first day, we went to Callejon del Beso, the Walkway of the Kiss, that place (here, on the left) where two star-crossed overs could touch across a 68 cm distance between balconies. Every romantic couple in Guanajuato goes there to kiss on the steps under the balconies. It’s said that if you do that, you will have seven years of good luck. So we did that, then went up to the souvenir shop inside the left balcony where a woman took that picture at the top of this post. Here, below, is Myung reaching across to the other balcony.

You can look at what I had to say and my photos from the first time I was here by clicking on the June 2013 link or typing “Guanajuato” in the search box. This time, it was about doing all the cooklstuff with Myung. She likes to walk and Guanajuato is a great walking town, so up and down the callejons we walked. I got a kick out of taking Myung around on her first days in Mexico. We were very cute, I think, making memories. Ah, there’s nothing like a honeymoon.

As long as I’m putting photos on here, I might as well keep going. There are a few angles and viewpoints I didn’t post before, and of course Myung wasn’t in any of them.

We haven’t formulated a plan yet. It’s tentatively the same as it was, that is, to mosey around Mexico for a while, hitting the places I liked before and some new ones. Then we’ll go through Central America and on south. At some point we’ll stop. I don’t think I can afford to travel for more than a year without plunking down somewhere and lowering my travel and rent costs. Myung is the same way, so when it seems right we’ll stop at least for a while. She’d still like to make money somehow. Import/Export is what she does, so she’s already on the lookout for opportunities.

For now, we’re just beginning. We’ve been in Morelia a couple of days. Type Morelia into the search box to see last time I was here. Tomorrow, we’re going to Patzcuaro, about an hour from here. I haven’t been there before, but it’s supposed to be a nice lake area with lots of indigenous people. After that, we were thinking of Taxco, the famous old silver mining region. After that, maybe Mexico City.

I was looking though my pictures and ran across this one. I’ll caption it “Myung discovers tortilla chips and salsa”. She could become a westerner so easy!

That’s going to be it for now. Talk to you later. Be well, all of you.