A Short Journey to Tepic

We were getting too comfortable in our apartment so we decided to branch out, venture to the wild side and go see some new towns. There are many towns we had not visited just a few hours from here and one we chose was Tepic, actually a city of 200,000, just an hour from the coast and 3 hours by direct bus from here.

Leaving our apartments that were paid for and having to pay hotel bills in other towns caused us a bit of concern but what the heck. The journey there was very fast on a new 4 lane toll road with no stops and took exactly three hours but coming home was a different story. We wanted to stay in another town, Tequila, for one night so had to take a local bus and this bus did not go direct. We saw a lot more country side, many more towns and actually quite enjoyable as we broke it into two days but the total time was 6.5 hours to do the same distance.

We so love the Mariachis and this particular group (there are more of them than just these two) were playing for a couple at a particular table. They looked to be a grandmother and her grown grandson of about 25 years.


We have moved on to Tepic and photo is self describing. Kids and mud....... having fun.

Nancy and Dennis are trying to buy a hat for Dennis. There are many for sale in this part of the country and mostly in the cowboy style. Also boots and belts and all other paraphanelia that goes along with cowboys and cowgirls.

Shoe shine alley in Tepic. And there were lots of alleys just like this. All those cowboys do need to keep their boots shiny.

There seems to be quite a large indeginous population in this part of Mexico and this particular family fits that catagory. And they enjoy the parks as much as we do.

There was a bit of a celebration going on in the central park in Tepic and the following photos show various participants getting ready. The first two are of a cute dancer who would soon be center stage.

And two more very pretty dancers who's biggest admirers were their families. The park was swarming with aunts and uncles and grandmas and grandpas and neices and nephews and moms and dads.

The boys for this particular dance needed mustaches and here is mom getting one ready for someone too young to grow one.

Just two girls waiting for their time to be famous.

We have more photos of this journey, too many for this blog so you will more than likely get another one tomorrow that will show and tell about Tequila.

And exciting news for us. Son number 2, Glenn, is coming tonight and will be here over the weekend. Lots of visiting coming up.