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Yeah, I just made up the interpretation as in reality it´s about two paragraphs long in Spanish. One of my compadres mother was a Purépecha pura and she spit it out so damn fast you could never learn it from her. No I don´t think the Purépecha had an alphabet but Don Vasco de Quiroga quickly hispanicized the language and used the Latin alphabet to document the words for posterity. BTW, all the guide post signs in the Eduardo Ruiz Park by the Cupatitzio in Uruapan are written in Spanish and Tarascan for you folks that want to learn a little more about that language can have at it, just another dialect of Purépecha.

Uruapan is in the throes of a drug gang control war right now, so be careful when you are in the area. A few weeks ago 10 people were killed in a gunfight in the Colorado neighborhood not far from the Cupatitzio. My compadre said he counted 50 federal police trucks down on the plaza last week: If you do go, Tzararacua Falls, Lago Zirahuén, Janitzio, and the ruins at Tingambato are all must see places. And eat your fill of carnitas and corundas, they are the best in the west. Uruapan isn´t two hours from Patzcuaro, as I drive it in about 30 minutes all the time on the cuatro carriles Forgot to mention it, but don´t go there unless you can pronounce it…….PARANGARICUTIRIMICUARO, one of those words that the maestras used to love to throw out for you to learn in school years ago. It´s the pueblo that was buried in lava in the 1940´s with a new volcano that sprang up in the middle of a milpa. It´s not Spanish, but a word from the Purépecha lingo meaning "hard to spell and even harder to pronounce"

Well,...…...I must not be innocent.

Hard to find water related venues in Mexico without children unless they are private homes and not open to the general public, especially on weekends. Within a 50K radius of Chapala there might be one or two spas northwest of Guad. that has mostly adults and very few children but very expensive in comparison.

That´s because the inquirer is "CLUELESS"

So true, I remember back in the 80´s when a local real estate office domiciled at the east end of La Floresta in Ajijic, on the Carretera. sported they were both a Century 21 and Remax franchisee. Neither one of the companies knew anything about it. A true prestanombre…...

That number is current and correct.

Good idea, because you sure are off the fairway on the topic you opined on about Mexicans, their worth. and what they think.

Depends on whether the restaurant uses salted or unsalted butter. If the butter is unsalted then I don´t care if the dogs show up because I´m not going to be there anyhow.

Maybe two thousand times......

Not so sure about China, greatest economic growth in the last 40 years. Doubt their system would work anywhere else though, but who knows.

A street check is needed, not a spell check.

Life for me has been very difficult without a "real" Thai restaurant. …...but I am surviving.

Yep…...some people just can´t drive between the lines and wonder why they get smashed into.

You would have had to put her down in order to get to Allyn, that´s how protective she was of him. Allyn and I shared a similar passion (called cornhuskitis) that was unique to probably just us two, but even then most of our conversation went through Beverly or my son, who had unlimited access to Allyn, for professional reasons. I was with him the night he had the bar room brawl with Adam Fisher in the early 80´s at the restaurant where Telares is now and we kind of tore things up. LOL That´s when I knew he was "my man". Good Ol Days………..

Neither one are in good enough shape to be bothered by anything, now.

The best and most accurate post you have ever authored!!!!!!!!!

Apology accepted! Just remember there are many, many Mexicans who read this board but don´t post because they don´t feel their command of the English language is good enough. I am one of the few exceptions except for a few naturalized citizens like bmh. Even more difficult is for them to understand your attempt at humor that comes across as flat as a pancake. Mexicans who have a fair comprehension of English love reading these boards to get a better understanding (sometimes curiosity driven) of all these foreigners who have relocated here and to learn about them. Paternalistic or "better than thou" attitude is not hard to come across to Mexicans from even what you consider trivial or trying to be funny. I speak up because i want the Mexicans to like foreigners and accept them and when I see that´s not happening, I raise the issue. My family is mostly bilingual with Spanish being their first and preferred language, and some follow this board, just to improve their understanding of things that identify the culture NOB, and a few say they wouldn´t be bothered with some of the garbage on here. True, that some people living in Chapala who travel locally between villages, do not bother to get driver´s license or maybe insurance because of the difficulty of going to Guad., or cost, or whatever, but just over the hill is a metro area with 6 or 7 million people and millions of vehicles from motos to camiones de doble remolques and they for the largest part by far are licensed properly. Too much of the foreign population´s idea of Mexico and Mexicans in this area is based on their perceptions gained from a small area of small pueblos, when less than an hour away is a huge thriving metropolis that more genuinely reflects the more realistic Mexico. It´s like comparing a small town in southern Missouri to New York, Washington DC. Chicago. LA, and on and on. Almost all Tapatios would laugh at you ideas about people without licenses, or knowing what predial is, or some of your other remarks. ! México es mucho mas que un calle residencial en Chapala o Ajijic ¡

i¨ve done it so many times, I wear a blindfold, so I hope things haven´t changed when I coudn´t see. LOLOL

Absolutely, it´s the only way for me now if I take the cuotas/200 to PV. I would say about 60 kilómetros + o - The entire Macro from Tequila to Zapotlanejo is around 110k If I go the Mascota route then i go through Joco and don´t use the Macro

Forgot to mention, the sign at the turnoff exit onto the Macro, will say Zapotlanejo, but don´t let that bother you. Also, you can get off on 54D, the Colima highway and come in through Joco.

Just past Tequila, first exit to your right. Can´t miss it, just keep looking for it on your right, takes you right over to the Chapala highway about 1k south of the Ocotlán/La Barca turnoff intersection. Watch out for the monkeys crossing the road,,,,,,,they are slow, carrying lots of cocos.

I was fine with the bra thing and protesting, bashing Walmart, but then it turned to the logic for the same, was that Mexico is just brim full of lawbreakers of every stripe and this was the logic for objecting to not being able to try on a bra, whether it be store policy or law. Personally, I don´t care about the OP topic but I do care when I think someone is bashing the country and the people I am a part of. You don´t go to someone´s house and start running down their family.

We are such a miserable country of miscreants, aren´t we. A lot of us (Mexicans) stand in line for hours at 5 different locations in Guadalajara to get or keep our driver´s license or stand in line to pay the predial every year. I don´t know hardly anyone who isn´t Mexican and I don´t have many friends or relatives that fit your descriptive mode. Many Mexican property owners don´t know what predial is???...…..hard to believe!!!! "they run them while the gringos stop"...…...Boy!!!....what did we do to deserve this angelic wave of immigration?

I thought Michael was from the UK and Sean was from Boston, both married to Mexicans and with permanent (ciudadano o permanente) status in Mexico owning a MEXICAN S.A.