Thursday, December 18, 2008

Sand, Rosie and Insomnia

It's been an exciting few days since we met Rosie. It was her idea to start an online newspaper with real hard news (and a lot of soft news) about Puerto Peñasco and Sonora. We talked about it Dec 6th and launched it yesterday. www.rockypointnewsonline.com! It's a weekly. If you have a website, please link back to us!! This is Rosie:

Now I call myself, "Melody Scott, cub reporter". Yesterday Carl and I went out to the ribbon-cutting for the new Gulf Highway connecting Puerto Peñasco to the Baja and California. It ends just outside of Yuma, and makes the drive from San Diego a mere four hours! Read more in our next issue. (hee hee I love saying that).














Rosie grew up splitting her time between living in Los Angeles and living in Pitiquito. Here's some information about that, very interesting:

http://www.colonial-mexico.com/West%20Mexico/pitiquito.html



She writes for the Rocky Point Times as well, she's quite prolific. And a huge book lover, so we all get along quite well. She also has a ferocious sense of humour.

It has been extremely windy here, starting Saturday the winds were about 10 mph, then they've been building, until yesterday it was a bit of a sandstorm, with winds about 30mph.

Today it's supposed to be sunny, 17 with slight winds, but it looks like they're picking up again tomorrow. Oh well, I guess this is winter, I think I can take it. They said it hadn't rained like it did yesterday for years. It really came down.

Merry Christmas to everyone, with all that's going on I probably won't blog again until the New Year. Feliz Navidad!

2 comments:

Cheryl said...

Congratulations on the launch of your online newspaper! That's fantastic! I enjoyed seeing your by-line and look forward to reading your publication weekly. Rosie sounds like a hoot, I hope we can meet her. That is, if we ever get out of Provo...

Mel150 said...

Thanks, Cheryl, she is a hoot, but rapidly leading us down the road to sleazy bars. And not-so-sleazy bars. There's place called Capone's here, and a rumour that Capone loved it down here and built one of the older motels. Truth? Probably not, but a good rumor.