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  • A ‘gringa’ who doesn’t want to change México, just enjoy it

    A ‘gringa’ who doesn’t want to change México, just enjoy it

    What is it like for a Gringa who has never been to Mexico to sell everything and grab our pets and fly here? How is it that we feel, at 60 plus, like young kids discovering a wonderful secret? That is what has happened to us. We have a rather ‘unique’ last name, and no offense if you like Donald, but we do not. We thought it would be a great poke at he who holds the title of US President, to fly to Mexico, where he has begun a wall to split us apart.

    We do not like that wall. What we DO love is the vibe. I grew up in a small town a few minutes from San Francisco. The town, called El Cerrito, was built up after the war, as it is nearby the ports of Alameda and Oakland. A little nest close enough to activities of every form, this is how we find our Jocotepec. People here for the most part know each other! Greetings always, most often with smiles, show us how friendly and warm are the towns folk. Afraid because we did not learn Spanish before we came, and as a huge talker, I was feeling so quiet! So, with Ana from Butterfly Spanish, I can at least read in Espanol now, and am learning the verb TO GO at this writing!

    What I want to say to the people of Jocotepec, is how much I cherish this vibration. An old hippy from Berkeley, feeling at home, even without full comprehension! The vendors are my friends now! The mercado is being renovated at this writing, so sales are all street side. Not only the parents, but the kids are there! Families swarm the marketplace and sit on benches in the Central Plaza. Some musicians stroll by, a cup for tips attached to a drum. Little delicious pies, 4 for a tiny amount of pesos, greet us with the delicious pina smell! Tamales are soft and warm, fillings chicken or elote, sweet corn.

    Walking my dog, I meet other dogs, every one of them so far friendly, giving my Cacahuate (Peanut) so much joy as well as new friends, along with much needed socialization.

    Why is the vibe different here in Mexico? Money is of course a huge focus of our move, being seniors on social security. But what we find in this Jocotepec, is a love of LIFE over money, FAMILY over money, and automatic trust of my neighbors. The difference is palpable. After under one year, we signed a lease to our beautiful rental, the likes of which we have not known in our country. Brick and steel, tile and grout, in every color. Casitas painted with such vibrant colors, and teh artista named “Chile de Joco” making sublime murals all over the Pueblo! Tacos! Within our radius we know 4 delectable taco stands!

    These are only a few reasons we love this town. We do not want to change a single thing. We are not the gringos who want to change everything to be like USA. Please, NO! Mexico, I am learning, is whole and true to her citizens. I hope everyone reading this thinks so! Thanks for your attention. I will see you at the Thursday tianguis if not at the Plaza or the gorgeous Malecon, another topic for another day. Warmly, Jennifer de Jocotepec, aka Cactus Jenn.

  • Tendrá Jocotepec su ciclovía panorámica

    Tendrá Jocotepec su ciclovía panorámica

    Miguel Cerna.- Alista tu bicicleta porque próximamente podrás recorrer la ribera norte con una vista privilegiada hacia el Lago de Chapala.

    A partir de septiembre, arrancarán los trabajos de la segunda etapa de la ciclovía que correrá de la vecina población de Ajijic, a la localidad de San Juan Cosalá en Jocotepec, anunció el Gobernador de Jalisco Enrique Alfaro Ramírez.

    La primera etapa, de Chapala a Ajijic, ya se terminó.

    El pasado siete de agosto, el mandatario estatal informó el arranque de los trabajos en San Juan, luego de supervisar la primera etapa de la vía que corrió desde el centro de Chapala, hasta Ajijic.

     “A partir de septiembre, ya estamos en los procesos de licitación de la obra, arrancamos la segunda etapa que ya tiene presupuesto y que va a tener una inversión de 87.5 millones de pesos. Salimos de Ajijic y vamos a llegar hasta San Juan Cosalá, esto ya es Jocotepec”.

    El Gobernador Enrique Alfaro recorrió la primera etapa de la ciclovía el pasado 7 de agosto.

    Aunado a esto, Alfaro Ramírez se comprometió a iniciar la tercera y última etapa de la ciclopista, que conectará con la cabecera municipal y completará la ruta de más de 20 kilómetros de extensión desde Chapala a Jocotepec, en enero del próximo año.

    Por las características de la obra, se espera que los ciudadanos puedan hacer uso de la ciclopista a toda hora, ya que contará con alumbrado público, propiciando la integración familiar y la promoción del deporte.

    Con la ciclovía, se podrá recorrer la ribera norte del Lago de Chapala de una forma segura, disfrutando de las hermosas vista que ofrece el paisaje con el lago más grande del país de fondo.

  • 10 Things You Didn’t Know About our Town

    10 Things You Didn’t Know About our Town

    One of the New Hampshire Grants, Middlebury was chartered by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth on November 2, 1761. The name “Middlebury” came from its location between the towns of Salisbury and New Haven. It was awarded to John Evarts and 62 others. The French and Indian Wars ended in 1763, and the first settlers arrived in 1766. John Chipman was the first to clear his land, Lot Seven. During the Revolutionary War, much of the town was burned in Carleton’s Raid on November 6, 1778. After the war concluded in 1783, settlers returned to rebuild homes, clear forests and establish farms. Principal crops were grains and hay.

    Landowners vied for the lucrative honor of having the village center grow on their properties. A survey dispute with Salisbury led to the forfeiture of Gamaliel Painter’s farm to that town, and his transition from farming to developing Middlebury Village near his and Abisha Washburn’s mill, together with other mills that surrounded the Otter Creek falls. Industries would include a cotton factory, sawmill, gristmill, pail factory, paper mill, woolen factory, iron foundry, and marble quarry. The Rutland & Burlington Railroad first arrived on September 1, 1849. Around 1830, Middlebury was the second largest town in Vermont.

    Middlebury College, one of the United States’ elite liberal arts colleges, was founded here in 1800. It is a member of the NESCAC. In the summer, the town plays host to the annual Middlebury College Language Schools, as well as the college’s Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the oldest surviving conference of its kind in the nation.

  • Holiday Reading: 10 Best Summer Books

    Holiday Reading: 10 Best Summer Books

    Writing is a system of linguistic symbols permitting one to transmit and conserve information. Writing appears to have developed between the 7th millennium BC and the 4th millennium BC, first in the form of early mnemonic symbols which became a system of ideograms or pictographs through simplification. The oldest known forms of writing were thus primarily logographic in nature. Later syllabic and alphabetic or segmental writing emerged.

    The book is also linked to the desire of humans to create lasting records. Stones may be the most ancient form of writing with wood being the first medium to take the guise of a book. The words biblos and liber first meant “fibre inside of a tree”. In Chinese, the character that means book is an image of a tablet of bamboo. Wooden tablets (Rongorongo) were also made on Easter Island.

    Silk, in China, was also a base for writing. Writing was done with brushes. Many other materials were used as bases: bone, bronze, pottery, shell, etc. In India, for example, dried palm tree leaves were used; in Mesoamerica another type of plant, Amate. Any material which will hold and transmit text is a candidate for use in bookmaking.

  • Travel Tip: Top 20 Most Visited National Parks

    Travel Tip: Top 20 Most Visited National Parks

    A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of wild nature for posterity and as a symbol of national pride. An international organization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and its World Commission on Protected Areas, has defined “National Park” as its Category II type of protected areas.

    While this type of national park had been proposed previously, the United States established the first “public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people”, Yellowstone National Park, in 1872. Although Yellowstone was not officially termed a “national park” in its establishing law, it was always termed such in practice and is widely held to be the first and oldest national park in the world. Some would say that the first official national park to be designated as such at its creation was Mackinac Island, legislated in 1875. Australia’s Royal National Park, established in 1879, was the world’s third official national park. In 1895 ownership of Mackinac Island was transferred to the State of Michigan as a state park and national park status was consequently lost. As a result Australia’s Royal National Park is by some considerations the second oldest national park now in existence.

  • Guide: How to Pick the Perfect Gift for Your Partner

    A birthday is an occasion when a person or institution celebrates the anniversary of their birth. Birthdays are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a gift, party, or rite of passage.A birthday is an occasion when a person or institution celebrates the anniversary of their birth. Birthdays are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a gift, party, or rite of passage. Many religions celebrate the birth of their founders with special holidays (e.g. Christmas, Buddha’s Birthday). Note the distinction between birthday and birthdate: The former occurs each year (e.g. December 18), while the latter is the exact date a person was born (e.g., December 18, 1998).

    In most legal systems, one becomes designated as an adult on a particular birthday (usually between 12 and 21), and reaching age-specific milestones confers particular rights and responsibilities. At certain ages, one may become eligible to leave full-time education, become subject to military conscription or to enlist in the military, to consent to sexual intercourse, to marry, to marry without parental consent, to vote, to run for elected office, to legally purchase (or consume) alcohol and tobacco products, to purchase lottery tickets, or to obtain a driver’s licence. The age of majority is the age when minors cease to legally be considered children and assume control over their persons, actions, and decisions, thereby terminating the legal control and legal responsibilities of their parents or guardians over and for them. Most countries set the age of majority between 18 and 21.

  • Win a Wonderful Weekend for Two

    Tourism is travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. Tourism is commonly associated with international travel, but may also refer to travel to another place within the same country. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people “traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes”.

    Tourism has become a popular global leisure activity. Tourism can be domestic or international, and international tourism has both incoming and outgoing implications on a country’s balance of payments. Today, tourism is a major source of income for many countries, and affects the economy of both the source and host countries, in some cases being of vital importance.