Mike Humfreville
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Happy New Year
It was a quiet new years for us this year, not that it?s ever frenzied at our age. It used to be when we were younger, socializing until the moments
just before and then waiting and counting down the last few seconds as some symbol marks the time.
The Gecko and Diaz crew in Bahia de Los Angeles will have to live it up for us tonight. I?m feeling just a little sorry for myself. We watched a
romantic comedy so I got my crying time in and Mary Ann dozed a bit under the influence of diminishing pain meds from her knee replacements. I, of
course, had no need for medication so absorbed several liters of rum and I can?t count the boxes of wine strewn throughout our rented home. Mary Ann
must have changed her habits. Women are just plain hard to deal with.
Miguelito and Kevin are off to their own festivities. Mary Ann and I are missing several gatherings in lieu of re-cooperation which explains why I?m
sitting at this damned keyboard and typing while we could be socializing with our pals. But we?ll be back on track soon.
Take care you-all. Watch the weather. It?s been weird in So Cal, but stabilizing. Our hearts are with you tonight on the patio, dancing to the live
music, perhaps between occasional raindrops and forming relationships across borders. Our hearts are amongst you while you collect at Gecko to share
space and food and music and affections.
Next year we?ll be there.
But, wait a minute! NBC just flashed a major SigAlert?I?m just getting it now, live?Wait!
??road closure between Diaz Ranch and Camp Gecko. Traffic re-routed over old road to Las Animas. Transportation available from Las Animas to Camp
Gecko via panga.
Take care amigos and Happy New Year. We love ya. We love you all.
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Eli
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Feliz Ano Nuevo back at ya, Don Miguel and ALL
I will have to keep this brief as I am on the key board from h?ll. Oaxaca is as quite as a city could ever possibly be, the folks here take their New
Years seriously, so all resturants, stores and enter-net cafe's are closed. Except of course, VIPS (Mexico's Denny's) and this one and only enternet
next to the bus station that is always open.
Although I retried early, (in the tradition of a middle aged gringa), still, I had a wonderful last supper of 2004 with friends that run and work at
the posada where I lived before I moved my present sancuary, and where (by the way) I move back to tomorrow. I have been invited back to paint a
mural, which is a real honor and privilge, what a way to begin the new year!
The folks at the table repersented Oaxaca, Mexico City, U.S., Germany, Japan & Baja (me). The dinner was pozole made with a roasted pumpkin seed
sauce, two different kinds of tamales, hot fruit cider punch, and rice pudding, with a few shots of mescal, it couldn't have been more simple and
exotic at the same time.
I for one have much hope for this new year. I am actually finally exicited to go home to Baja, well at least until it gets to hot again, than I will
fly South, here or Chiapas or ?. Ironic, all the snow birds that fly South to Baja to escape the cold of winter and than you get someone like me,
flying South to escape Baja's heat of summer. What a "go figure" kind of world it is that we live in.
Wishin YA'all well and much happiness for the coming year, Sara
[Edited on 1-1-2005 by Eli]
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FrankO
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I hear ya' Mike, we have always had mellow New Year's. It's a tradition. Last night with the twinlets was just fine and we woke up to the bombs going
off here in Ocean Beach. My oldest son is partying w/buddies, as he should be at 19 and w/his own pad above the beach in Ventura and my oldest
daughter is in the Mojave motorcycle riding w/her other family. I think this is the second New Year's we have spent north of the border in about 6
years... Mulege, Ensenada, Loreto, the Yucatan, they've all been spent being mellow, but not less than interesting. As I sit here listening to that
great Irish poet, Van Morrisan, I couldn't be more happy. I'll be back in Bahia this month and a couple of times after before summer hits.
And, yes, I was a bit melancholy about not being south this Ano Nuevo, but really, it's just a moment in time.
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