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Catching up AND Ajijic, Guadalajara plus

5/14/2011

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Well Ajijic was our next stop…it wasn’t even on our agenda from the first but seeing as how we were passing by and having heard so much about it we had to check it out.  We weren’t impressed !!!  The streets were soooo narrow and soooo difficult to get around and through that I just couldn’t understand WHY all the accolades.  After finding a good restaurant and enjoying lunch on the banks of Lake Chapala, we continued onto Tequila before continuing downhill to La Penita.  I really don’t like driving in the dark while in Mexico, but we did…  I just don’t want to make it a habit.    

We’ve allowed a lot of time to pass now so I’ll give a shortened version of the next month plus… 

Ken and Maureen joined Louise and me for another trip.  This time we drove up to Guadalajara to do a little shopping AND sightseeing. The last time that Louise and I were in Guadalajara, was in 1990 and we wanted to re-live some of that time.  For Ken and Maureen, it was their first time.  Unfortunately with my computer crashing I lost all my pictures of this trip, but the memories will last us forever.  Our B&B was the same one that we stayed in while visiting Tlaquepaque (but instead of having Ken and Maureen in the picture we have Sol and Carol from our first trip here).  On our first morning, we took a cab directly to the Market to start our shopping experience.  In less you’ve been there, you can’t believe the size of the place.  You can find AND purchase just about anything and enjoy a great meal at the same time.  This wasn’t like walking into a department store but if you can’t find it, it just isn’t made yet…  As long as we were in Guadalajara we also wanted to see some of the sights of this big city, so instead of walking our legs off, we bought tickets for the “Jump on – Jump off” bus.  This is a beautiful city, but to really get a good feel for it, it will take at least a couple more visits.



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_Our two night stay only wet our appetite so we will be back.  Leaving Tlaquepaque, we decided to take a different route back to La Penita and that took us close enough to Talpa to warrant a stop.  Talpa is the town that we visited when Del was here and is known because of the “Virgin of Talpa”, and their Church.

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_As we walked up to the church we noticed two things that were not “normal”.  One of them was that the pews were moved to the sides of the chapel and the other was the appearance of a brass mariachi band.  I had a chance to talk with a member of the band and found out that the priest of the Talpa church just died and they were there to play at the Alter and in the attached museum.  I must say that a brass mariachi band playing in a church was AMAZING !!!  The sound and the feeling, un-believable…  Well there are always things like this that just seem to appear as we travel so that’s one of the reasons that we do what we do…TRAVEL. 

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