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The magazine for all things Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo
Serving the Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo community since 1999
Available at select spots all across Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo
December 2005 / 41Letter from the EditorWelcome to the big month of December and Welcome to Another Day in Paradise. Intrepid travelers, we arrive here from all corners. By plane, by bus, by car, we make this pilgrim’s journey every year. Braving long roads and long layovers and the more than occasional exorbitant fare, and yet we come. We are persistent and pugnacious, dogged and determined, trusty and tenacious. We’d walk five miles through the snow to get to Zihuatanejo, uphill both ways. You’d think we all arrived by camel train, judging by the battle scars and the battle stories and the fiercely defended territories of our no longer secret, secret-spot. I know I feel like a camel driver every time I cross the Sierra Madres more then twice in one day, and that line of taxis from the airport this time of year, it does resemble a caravan, doncha think? Or am I just over-ly romanticizing everything once again? We are undefinable, we are a community in transit that disperses and reassembles every year, each time getting bigger, like a blooming scrape of something on a glass microscope slide or a kaleidoscopic flower from a junior high school science film. Is it a mass exodus or does it just feel that way? Over 20 million foreigners visit Mexico every year, almost ½ a million come to Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo alone (–we’ll not exactly alone they usually come in pairs; 2s, 3s, small familiar groups). And there are many who are prophesizing yet larger numbers still in the coming years, they say the big generation up there will be sending even more retirees down here…any day now. And for those of us that like the idea of bigger, better, more, (money, market, taxes, tourism, economy) that is good-ly news. But for those of us already feeling a bit skittish in the din, twitchy in the traffic, jumpy in the hubbub…perhaps you’d better dig in your trenches and put on your battle gear, cause p.s. the crowds are here.
History La flor de Nochebuena is named after an American ambassador to Mexico. Widely admired and cultivated in many lands, Euphorbia pulcherria is best known north of the Rio Grande as........? Food Beer - It's a food, no?...Mexico's claim to fame on the spirits front has always been tequila. What many people do not know, however, is that Mexico is also the world's third-largest beer exporter after Holland and Germany, sending an estimated 229 million gallons a year overseas... Fishing It’s time to meet the Captain whose behind “Meet the Captains”, Captain Ed Kunze....I met him back in 2000. I had talked with him a bit before then, figured oh, just another gringo in paradise, I was wrong. Only took one meeting, one short evening to know he was the guy, he had it together. Capt. Ed Kunze could fish, could write, and he was 100% behind saving the fishery of Zihuatanejo... Sports Tennis Anyone ? Tennis is often referred to as a “Sport for Life,” because children can play tennis from as early an age as they have the strength and coordination to swing a racquet and can continue to enjoy the sport throughout their entire lives... ADIP goes to Valle de Bravo for FunEnduro 2005. Valle was host this past November 11-13, 2005 to the 4th annual FunEnduro, an Enduro motorcycle event put on by DiazBrothers Motorsports that brought out 340 riders from all across Mexico, including professional riders from the US, Europe and Latin America.... View full article Community Zihuatanejo Red Cross provides Ambulance Service and much more.... Z-Scene... View full article Real Estate & Finance S. de R.L., The Mexico LLC Travel Enchanting Puebla. We never really intended to spend a mini-vacation in Puebla. We thought it would be a convenient overnight stop on the way to Oaxaca, but we were so charmed by what we found that we changed our plans and enjoyed a long weekend in this city of 1.35 million people on the way back home to Ixtapa in September.... Upcoming Events A quick list of upcoming events in our community and in other parts of Mexico... View full article Et cetera .. Horoscopy
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