Well it’s Saturday morning about 10:30, and we are sort of preparing to return home. We’ll leave here tomorrow (Sunday about 9:45 am. PST, and catch a plane in San Diego at 6:45 pm. We get back to Raleigh sometime Monday morning. Yesterday, we went down to San Felipe and spent several hours shopping and bartering with the locals. We also dropped by The Taco Factory for a little food and some more giant margaritas. Last night we cooked the clams we had harvested the other day, and dipped them in a little garlic butter. They were great and we had all we could eat. This morning we went to the weekly Flea Market. It happens every Saturday on the Ranch, and there are vendors there with all sorts of things. Two different fellows had some of the most beautiful produce I have seen in a long time. There were stands selling all sorts of Mexican and American breakfast items. There were local artists selling all manner of art, painted roof tiles, water colors, hand blown glass, hand made furniture, various ceramic stuff, and even a velvet Elvis. Local fishing guys had giant shrimp and clams. There were dune buggies for sale, pastries and canned goods from some of the Ranch residents, and an old guy from New York playing the electric piano and singing for tips. All in all your basic mish mash of folks, Mexican, Anglo, Locals, and Tourists. Noticed that many of the folks that now call this place home are a little on the eccentric side. (Plenty of long white hair and beards) Now for the news: as of 9:45 PST today (03/04/06) we are now the proud owners of Vista del Sol, Section 7750, Lot 90-3. It is 4.6 miles back in the desert from Mexico Route 5 and 5.8 miles from the beach. We are not certain if we will eventually build a winter home down here or just hold the land for speculation, but we are leaning toward eventually building and becoming eccentric old Mexicans-part of the year living in Mexico and the other part of the year in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A great piece of the whole thing is, with the new Mexican Laws, we can renew the trust that holds the land every 50 years in perpetuity. This means, the place can stay in the family as our legacy if we choose to build. Now all we have to do is come up with a catchy name like, Casa de Jorge (pronounced or’hey) or Baja del Elvis. We are going out with our new friends from California this afternoon to see their construction. They told us their builder has been great to work with. They also have been very helpful pointing out the plusses and minuses of this place. I know one thing, before we try to build here or live here, Spanish fluency is a must. Bickie and I will probably be signing up for a Spanish class somewhere. And finally, since we are now land owners, we have the option to come here and stay at their newly remodeled hotel in San Felipe, or rent a house somewhere on the ranch at much lower member rates. They plan to have service from one of the feeder airlines directly to San Felipe in the next year or so. But even now you can fly to El Centro California, and it’s only about a 2 hr trip down here.
Bye for now,
Wes and Bickie
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