3 dumb gringos wonder what the heck?

I wish I had a picture of this, and I'm attempting to get one. On a street we were driving on the other day, there were three men, obviously vendors of some kind. Each had a ...machine I guess you'd say, with a vessel on top that looked sort of like a wok, and coiled on the machine was what looked like an air hose. One beckoned us, but it was one of those busy days and we couldn't stop. I'm going searching for them again, though, and hope to report back.

Reminds me of when Carl, Cheryl and I were sitting outside at Señor Amigos, and a man approached us with a homemade plywood box of some kind. It had switches and dials on it, and two wires came out to a couple of short lengths of pipe.

Through miming and Cheryl's Spanish, we learned that a person was supposed to hang on to the pipes and get electrical current running through them. Needless to say, Carl was intrigued. So for I think 20 pesos, he experimented with more or less current, and the muscles in his arms got a workout.

Today I saw a guy transporting a fridge in the back of his pickup. He didn't have it tied down, he had a friend in the back standing up and holding onto it. Yeah, that's safe.

Our friend Tina has continued to be a great source on where to find things here. She told us about a couple of shops that sell fish that was flash-frozen off the boats, so when you thaw it it's nice and fresh. Went to one the other day and bought some flounder, it was very good.

Wednesday or Thursday I was working away when suddenly the power went out, but not in all the rooms. Carl was out, so I checked the breakers, nothing was tripped but I reset them anyway. Carl got back and was equally perplexed. But he noticed a couple of people wandering the neighborhood looking equally confused. He went and spoke to one lady, and apparently it was neighborhood wide. She called the power company.

Carl and I went out, leaving Shadow in the relative coolness of the house, and we did some shopping. When we came home we were very glad to see these guys:



And they had it fixed within the hour. The fans felt SO good when they came back on.

Weather here has been wonderful, mornings it's about 25, gets up to about 33 or 34. Perfect.

Tina also told us about a couple of her favorite vendors. One pumps a churro out of his machine, and you just say stop when it's as long as you want it. It drops into the hot oil, cooks, he takes it out and rolls it in powdered sugar, and it melts in your mouth.



The other vendor has bags of fritos. He opens them and pours butter and corn over them. Apparently really good as well.

We discovered a couple of new restaurants that just opened, and add them to the restaurant website. We're up to 84 restaurants now. One is a place that just does pork, and needless to say I rushed over to try a taco. Yum! lots of diced pork, onions and diced cabbage on two soft corn tortillas with red(HOT!) or green sauce.

The other we haven't tried yet, it's a new place serving Yucatan food like Pibil, a slow-roasted pork dish,
and Salpicon de res, - a shredded beef salad served at room temperature and frequently used as a topping for tostadas.




Looking forward to eating there. Putting together this website has opened our eyes to what a wealth of restaurants there are in our little city.

I'll leave you with these, for those of you thinking you might want to sample these restaurants for yourselves:








I don't know who these people are, but they're happy!