By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the November 2014 Edition Personally, if you’re bringing an RV, regardless of class, into Mexico, then you have to be a little braver than most. I would recommend some long-term planning, correspondence, and reservations before you leave and while on the trip make sure your stops are within easy travel range from […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the October 2014 Edition From a Cleveland, Ohio, suburb a High School teacher complained about having to put tests and lessons on the blackboard in print rather than in cursive, also known as: longhand, script, joined-up writing, joint writing, running writing, or handwriting (as pulled right out of Wikipedia) to which I […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the September 2014 Edition In the late sixties I got really lucky for my second overseas assignment while in the Air Force. I was reassigned to the U.S. Air Force Base in Athens, Greece. Until then I wasn’t even aware we had a base there. Because I was still in […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the August 2014 Edition I’m really into a book written by Lewis Spence (Published by Dover Publications, Inc. in 1994). Spence was a mythologist and died in 1955. The original publication of ‘The Myths of Mexico and Peru’ was published by George C. Harrap & Company Ltd. London., in 1913. Even […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the July 2014 Edition I used to open my classes with, “I’m looking for dead words. Anybody got any?” The rules we established were that it couldn’t have been slang and it can’t be found in any current dictionary. The last one which has been found by my group is the word, […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the June 2014 Edition Some men like to take the family to a Sunday game. If the family doesn’t have an interest the guy’s friends do and with tickets they all can be entertained for about three hours with some socializing before and after the game. This is the modern man’s dream […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the May 2014 Edition “That’s Mexico’s national day of Independence. Right?” Well, no it isn’t really. That date is actually on the 16th of September and is called “Grito de Dolores” (“Shout of Dolores”). There’s another wonderful story about that holiday which actually starts on the 15th of April. “Well if it’s […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the May 2014 Edition “That’s Mexico’s national day of Independence. Right?” Well, no it isn’t really. That date is actually on the 16th of September and is called “Grito de Dolores” (“Shout of Dolores”). There’s another wonderful story about that holiday which actually starts on the 15th of April. “Well if it’s […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the April 2014 Edition The month of April finds us looking forward to the springing of spring in most geographic areas. For example in Arizona they have already had their ‘springing’ and would like the seasonal changes to stop right where they are. Their next step into spring will be summer for […]
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By Manzanillo Sun Writer from the April 2014 Edition When we Americans and Canadians think of Mexico, we think of its language as Spanish with some local Indian thrown in here and there. If we plan a trip or start to make arrangements to move and live in Mexico, a Spanish (Mexican) English (American) phrase book is […]
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