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In the small shops around here, that is exactly how the eggs are. All different shapes and all different shades and they aren't perfectly clean neither. You usually tell them how many you want and they place them in a small plastic bag, so be careful. If we buy eggs at Walmart or Soriana, we usually save the cartons for when we buy the local mom and pop store eggs. Many people here (like us) will have neighbors that sell their chicken and ducks out of their house.

It was reported this week in the Guadalajara Reporter that Chapala recently announced that it would soon start resurfacing many more streets within the municipality in the next coming weeks. Well, tonight I took my evening stroll down on the malecón and I noticed that they had begun removing sections of the octagon shaped brick adoquines, down in front of the main Church and were replacing it with the nice smooth faux-type adoquines that they have already used on Calle Morelos in Chapala and also on Calle Juarez, behind the Mercado Principal. I'm calling them faux-type adoquines, because I have no idea what they are really called. It looks like large flat and smooth sheets of cement is being laid down, and on the cement, little squares are carved into to it to resemble adoquines or paving stones. I have no idea how far up Madero they are planning on going, but I am really pleased to see them finally improving the major Avenue in Chapala, I guess if I live long enough, I might one day even see my street resurfaced with these nice, smooth, and attractive little paver stone look-alikes.

Well, you said "the two big cell phone stores in Chapala", I know which ones they are. There are two, kind of large ones, a few doors down from each other. The reparaciones de celulares is actually fairly small and is on the corner, directly across from Coppel. The other two larger ones are a block down, opposite the bus station.

Try the cell phone repair shop directly across from Coppell in Chapala. The technicion there has successfully repaired several of our phones. The guy also recently repaired the display on a Samsung that had been dropped. We have had good luck with him so far.

Once you arrive at the bus station in Nuevo Laredo, you can take a short taxi ride to the border and get out, walk across, go through customs, then on the USA side, take another taxi to the greyhound station in Laredo or where ever you plan on going. That is my understanding.

If you are looking for worm castings, I purchased several bags of it at Walmart last week to mix in my little organic vegetable garden. I have know idea how good of a deal it was, but they were 25 pesos for a 2 kilo bag. By the way, for those that don't know, in Spanish worm castings are humus de lombriz or worm humus.

Well, she must be a psychologist that can also write prescriptions.

If a psychiatrist will do, there is an English speaking psychiatrist that comes every Monday to Quality Care from Guadalajara. I think her name is Dra. Paulina Hernandez.

For a free remedy, if you have plant pots on the ground, water the area real good around the pots (because this is the dry season) and check early the next morning before it gets hot. And check what you find. With just a few they will lay eggs and reproduce rather quickly in the right conditions. Or try laying card board down in a shady area and keep it moist, within a few days they will come. Make sure the cardboard is laying over plenty of wet leaves or mulch to attract them.

If you google iFibra, you will see that google says it is a cable company in Mexico City. I talked to the guys installing it outside Coppel a couple weeks ago and they told me it was for iFibra also and that Illox was a different company all together. But when you google it, there isn't much information about them. Maybe, they are new company.

Yes, I agree, just click on pagar en efectivo, or pay in cash, and select on Oxxo, 7eleven, or Bancomer or Banamex. I always feel better paying in cash. In Oxxo or 7eleven you will pay a 11 peso or so commision charge. I don't even print off the confirmation of order form, I just show them the confirmation email they send on my phone that has the code on it.

Black sapote might be a form of the persimmon, but I believe they are in the same family and a distant relative would be the avocado. I am still looking for those blue java bananas. I recently saw a video that they are growing them happily in Costa Rica now. Hopefully, they will make it to Mexico soon. I have the red Surinam Cherries, they taste really sour and turpentine like. But if you get the black variety (available on mercado libre) they are supposed to be much sweeter. Talking about cherries, I ordered a Jamaican cherry tree last summer on mercado libre. The fruit is supposed to taste like a cross between cotton candy and sugar cubes and be very juicy with very fine strawberry like seeds and to produce year round. Check it out. Mine is just going into the flower stage, later I will reveal how the fruit really is.

More Liana, your suggestions and information via the trip up North were wonderful and very informative, thanks, your sarcasm was questionable. And like you said, you never answered la verdadera cuestión. As you suggest, ETN sounds like the better way to get to San Antonio. So we should take ETN from Guadalajara to Nuevo Laredo, take a taxi from the terminal to the border, walk across, and then take a taxi to the greyhound station? Is that how it is done? For newbies, and with kids, it sounds complicated, but doable. Thanks again.

We will be traveling with kids and want a new scenic experience. I am most interested in how one crosses the border on a bus that takes you across the border to San Antonio, Texas. How hard and difficult is it? Thanks in advance!

We fly every summer to visit family in North Carolina. This year we want to try a different mode of transport. We would like to take a bus from Guadalajara to San Antonio and get on the Amtrak train with destination to Greensboro. I have googled it and have read that autobuses Grupo Senda is the way to go. My question is what happens when one gets to the border. Does the bus cross over and an inmigration officer get on to take passports? Or do they drop you off at the border, you take all your luggage and you walk up to the border with your passport and cross over and the bus meets you on the other side. Or do you get on a new bus alll together. How does the border crossing work when you take a bus from Guadalajara to San Antonio. Thanks.

I don´t know exactly which pharmacy the OP was referring to, but here in Chapala many people claim to get the best prices at the Farmacia Ahuacatlán, right across from Santander Bank. And Ahorros Pharmacy right before the bus station is another option for good low prices.

We use Dr. Eric who is on Juarez St right behind the market.

In Chapala there is a store next to Arbol de Café Coffee shop past Santander Bank on Hidalgo that is a sort of head shop that sells all types of tobacco products and, ahem, tobacco related accessories. I don´t know if they sell cigars yet, but it would be a place to check.

It is back up in Chapala.

Telmex is down in Chapala.

There are fireflies or lightening bugs here. There aren't many but a few. Being in the city they are not very visible. But if you lived further out in the country you would see a little more. On the other side of the wall from my garden passes the arroyo here in Chapala, there is some open spaces and lots of trees and plants growing all along. Some nights in the somertime I see them pass over my wall and fly around my yard. Or I spot them from my mirador flying around along the arroyo.

There are fireflies or lightening bugs here. There aren't many but a few. Being in the city they are not very visible. But if you lived further out in the country you would see a little more. On the other side of the wall from my garden passes the arroyo here in Chapala, there is some open spaces and lots of trees and plants growing all along. Some nights in the somertime I see them pass over my wall and fly around my yard. Or I spot them from my mirador flying around along the arroyo.

Thanks for making and posting the videos. I sit up on my mirador many nights of the week. All I've been able to see are the blinking lights of something slowly moving in a straight line, which are obviously a plane or jet. All I can say is the first video with the blue light which appeared to be spinning around hypnotically was rather disturbing. The second video looked almost like a flying Christmas tree and it also was disturbing. I've never tried those so called magical shrooms before, but if I were to partake, that is the kind of crazy mierda I would most likely see if I were to look up to the heavens at night under the influence of those little suckers. Absolutely cool, but at the same time utterly terrifying!

Well Chillin, you mentioned the black sapote, I do have one of those I planted two years ago, still waiting to get some fruit on it though. I also have lychee, guanabana, Surinam cherry, miracle fruit, and pitahaya to name a few of my exotics. With bananas, I have just the Jamaican Red, which is delicious. When we first bought the house, it was producing huge long bananas, two years ago it got so out of control we trimmed it down, got rid of all the tall older stalks. I guess it was pissed and didn't give us any bananas for a year and half, now we are getting a few again, but they are really small like the dominican bananas, but the sugar content is more concentrated so they are extremely sweet tasting. Ned Small, you say you've seen these Java Blue bananas in the Chapala tianguis and at Soriana. I have yet to come across them, but I will keep my eyes open, thanks for the heads up. A few weeks ago I saw some black sapote chocolate pudding tree fruit for sale in the Chapala tianguis, and I bought a couple. They are good but better when you mix a little powdered sugar in them. In ice cream they do taste a lot like chocolate.

So there is nobody here that has seen these in any of the nurseries or perhaps at somebody's house. They sound really cool, blue bananas that taste like vanilla ice cream. They aren't new, apparently they have been around since the 20's in Hawaii at least. And now they are starting to sell a lot of them in the nurseries in the States. I wonder how easy it would be to smuggle down a small rhizome. If I wash all the dirt out of it and just wrap it up in a wet paper towel I wonder if I would get into much trouble if caught at the border, or would they just probably confiscate it and send me on my way? And what about cuttings of certain plants just wrapped up in paper towels and brought down in a car? I know I can order many seeds and they will ship down here, but many plants don´t grow from seeds. Any ideas of how to get one of these?