Greetings from Mazatlan

Home Sweet Home

It's good to be back home in Mazatlán.  The two day drive from Tucson to Mazatlán went smoothly and we arrived to find everything in great shape at our condo.  We have our property manager arrange for cleaning before we get here, it gets dusty in our six month absence.  The gardens and grounds here at Portofino look better than ever.

It's very warm and humid here because Summer is hanging on.  At least the pool is nice and warm.

The news is Hurricane Patrica is building to be the largest hurricane in history.  It will make landfall in the state south of us so we don't know what that will mean to us here in Mazatlán.  I would expect large surf in the next few days.  Brother Dave and his wife Jamie are in PV which is in the path of the hurricane.  They will be trying to catch a bus up to Mazatlán today to avoid the storm.  We have their room waiting for them.

They were scheduled to leave on a Sunday bus to spend the next month here in Mazatlán.  I hope they can catch an earlier bus out of PV.

Sundown last night.

This is the end of the summer monsoon season and the wetlands across the street are fuller than we have ever seen them.  Everything is very green and growing fast, a combination of plenty of water and sunshine.

Looking East from our sixth floor condo.

I'm hoping my pink flamingo will be back to its' spot in the wetland this year.  I enjoy watching the variety of birds that frequent the wetlands.

We've driven around town a few times and are amazed at the amount of building that happened in our six month absence.  Many businesses  were built and opened in a short period of time.  We now have two new Carl's Jr. burger places near us, I'm not sure that is great news. 

After several years of stagnate progress it looks like Mazatlán is in a building boom again.  There are many new hotels and condos being built.  The summer tourist season was the best ever with Mexicans coming in on the new Durango highway.  It has positively changed the economy for the local businesses. 

They are building a new restaurant on the marina in front of us.  We'll see what happens in the next month, I went down and poked my head in to see how they were doing.  I'm sure my supervision helped.

Time to eat some Mexican food.

Life is good..... the Seahawks won and we are ready for a nice Winter of sun.