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jazzfishIt was snowing Satyrday morning when we left Vancouver, and from all reports hasn't really stopped yet. I'd be a little sad to have missed the snow, except that it's supposed to either still be going or start again on Sunday evening. What a winter.
We flew through Houston, about which airport I have nothing to say because due to unexplained delays we only had half an hour to change planes, and into Guadalajara. From there we were picked up by Miguel and driven half an hour or so south to Jak and Karawynn's place in Ajijic (AH-hee-heec), a small town on Lake Chapala that's a popular destination for expatriates.
Since then we've been wandering the town, eating delicious food, devouring fiction (Stross's Merchant Princes for me, Pat Rothfuss for E), and staying up too late talking. J&K are exemplary hosts and I've greatly missed the kind of evenings where you're sitting and talking and holy cow it's 1:30 in the morning when did that happen.
Ajijic itself is ... nice but not spectacular? Except for how a new landscape is always spectacular, and sunshine and warmth in February are a constant source of amazement, and any town caught between mountains and water will always be easy on the eyes. The roads are all narrow and paved in brown cobblestones. The houses tend to be built right up next to each other, and right up next to the sidewalk too. The lake has few seagulls, but lots of pelicans and herons and egrets, and there are small brown and orange and red birds with loud voices and grackles with enormous tails. The town is bright and busy but not crowded, and, mm, not affluent but not desperate. Pleasant.
We're staying at a small B&B now, partly because I at least am bad at being a houseguest (I tense up trying to navigate someone else's space, especially in the mornings) and partly because there's a pool. Tomorrow Karawynn is taking us to Guadalajara to visit the zoo, and we're staying at the airport hotel overnight so we can get on a plane far too early in the morning. So... I guess vacation is almost over.
I've written little, but not nothing. I've unwound a little, I think. It's a start.
More later, perhaps.
We flew through Houston, about which airport I have nothing to say because due to unexplained delays we only had half an hour to change planes, and into Guadalajara. From there we were picked up by Miguel and driven half an hour or so south to Jak and Karawynn's place in Ajijic (AH-hee-heec), a small town on Lake Chapala that's a popular destination for expatriates.
Since then we've been wandering the town, eating delicious food, devouring fiction (Stross's Merchant Princes for me, Pat Rothfuss for E), and staying up too late talking. J&K are exemplary hosts and I've greatly missed the kind of evenings where you're sitting and talking and holy cow it's 1:30 in the morning when did that happen.
Ajijic itself is ... nice but not spectacular? Except for how a new landscape is always spectacular, and sunshine and warmth in February are a constant source of amazement, and any town caught between mountains and water will always be easy on the eyes. The roads are all narrow and paved in brown cobblestones. The houses tend to be built right up next to each other, and right up next to the sidewalk too. The lake has few seagulls, but lots of pelicans and herons and egrets, and there are small brown and orange and red birds with loud voices and grackles with enormous tails. The town is bright and busy but not crowded, and, mm, not affluent but not desperate. Pleasant.
We're staying at a small B&B now, partly because I at least am bad at being a houseguest (I tense up trying to navigate someone else's space, especially in the mornings) and partly because there's a pool. Tomorrow Karawynn is taking us to Guadalajara to visit the zoo, and we're staying at the airport hotel overnight so we can get on a plane far too early in the morning. So... I guess vacation is almost over.
I've written little, but not nothing. I've unwound a little, I think. It's a start.
More later, perhaps.
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Date: 2014-02-28 04:40 am (UTC)Will it be difficult to re-adjust to the snow?
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Date: 2014-03-01 01:42 am (UTC)I really don't know! I'm hoping the week of light and no-work has been more recharging, and less drowning-man-clinging. Ask me again in a week.
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Date: 2014-02-28 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-03-01 01:33 am (UTC)