By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition ……..discusses some basics in starting a tropical garden The lush and colorful vegetation which abounds in west coastal Mexico is mind bogglingly beautiful. Around here we have a vast, highly diverse and simply sumptuous array of plants, flora and trees from which to choose. Perhaps the biggest […]
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By David Fitzpatrick from the August 2010 Edition Part ll: The Empire Emporer Napoleon lll of France From a European point of view, Napoleon had made an inspired choice in selecting Maximilian to be Emperor of Mexico: the Habsburg dynasty was singularly well equipped to provide a candidate for this sort of power grab. Beginning […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition There once was a sixty-five year old man who refused to think that he was that age. He was 190 pounds, e’rrrr, or so, and he liked to eat. He was not – shall we say – intolerant of alcohol consumption. And years as a jogger had […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition (The following is a slightly embellished and bit fictionalized account of an almost real event!) . . . it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bully badly who has gone badly to seed. You know the kind – those guys […]
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By Terry Sovil from the August 2010 Edition Last issue we learned about port operations and how an individual port terminal is setup. This month we’ll look more at infrastructure and Mexico’s Ports. Next issue we’ll wrap up with information on our port, current projects and futures. Mexico has few “natural harbors” along its 11,000 […]
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By Patty Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition My owner’s neighbor, John Corey, of Juanito’s Restaurant fame, suggested the name that is perfect for me. Ola Brisa ~ since I do enjoy both the vista of the ocean waves and a wide array of beautiful palm trees (more on that later) and, of course, the […]
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By Terry Sovil from the August 2010 Edition (1648-1695) This street in Manzanillo is near the Country Club in El Jabalí. Sor (Sister) Juana (say “wanna”) Inés de La Cruz lived from 1648 or 51 to 1695. She has a face you see regularly! Look at a 200 peso bill where her face and quill […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition There once was a sixty-five year old man who refused to think that he was that age. He was 190 pounds, e’rrrr, or so, and he liked to eat. He was not – shall we say – intolerant of alcohol consumption. And years as a jogger had […]
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By Linda Breun from the August 2010 Edition Hungry? Have you ever been REALLY hungry and not had enough money to feed yourself or your family? Here in Manzanillo and the surrounding area there are such families too numerous to mention.. So what do they do? How do they feed their children? Do they send […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition (The following is a slightly embellished and bit fictionalized account of an almost real event!) . . . it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bully badly who has gone badly to seed. You know the kind – those guys […]
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