By Kirby Vickery from the December 2017 Edition Of late, I have been writing articles about animals and other objects and how each one of them fit into Aztec Mythology. I do this when I’m not in Manzanillo. While there, I enjoy telling about local happening of culture and color and I find fulfillment in […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the November 2017 Edition Have you ever looked into a marigold flower and wondered just how many petals it has? The Aztecs did and discovered that there are anywhere up to 280 of them in a single blossom. The colors of that bloom are so intense that they remain bright and […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the October 2017 Edition Almost every people have, and then leave behind, their mythological stories. Some are fanciful, some are fun, and some are educational. Most tell a story of why something is the way it is or was in the time with those people that had the myth. To me, it’s […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the August 2017 Edition I know from experience that shopping for anything in the States usually comes down to you having to pay the asking price or, according to the seller, “You can get it somewhere else!” Oh sure you can ask for a bargain here and there if you’ re out […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the August 2017 Edition I am not enthralled with the installation and maintenance efforts of some groups of people that do that sort of thing here in Manzanillo. I understand that Mexico has standards for the building, utilities installation and maintenance. The problem I’ve run across is that the workmanship of individual […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the July 2017 Edition Oh Hear Ye, Hear Ye! I have finally had the most successful fishing thing happen in Mexico since 1991 when I went down along the Baja California coast (just south of Tijuana) and pulled in a 25 pound snapper that the US Border Patrol wanted to take […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the June 2017 Edition When I first started writing for the Manzanillo Sun, Freda and I decided that it should be about living in Manzanillo. However, when her illness set in, and we found ourselves far away, in Canada, for exceedingly-extended periods of time a year, it be- came necessary to […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the May 2017 Edition Quetzalcoatl (pron. Quet-zal-co-at) was one of the most important gods in ancient Mesoamerica. The god known as the Plumed Serpent is a mixture of bird and rattlesnake. Quetzalcoatl’s name is a combination of the Nahuatl words for the quetzal the emerald plumed bird and coatl or serpent. […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the May 2017 Edition We are on our way back to Manzanillo. We pulled into Hermosillo this afternoon for an early break to the travels. Ewa’s green Explorer was the vehicle of choice for this journey but it lies dead next to the RV in Coupeville, WA. It seems as […]
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By Kirby Vickery from the April 2017 Edition Happy spring time everyone. It is the time for nature’s rebirth and the lands are full of life, music, color (or colour depending), dance and happiness. One of the more flamboyant styles of celebration comes from the Mexican people. They say it’s the ‘Latin’ influence in the […]
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