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Re: Farid Parhad
Posted by beezelbub (Guest) - Thursday, July 14 2005, 6:30:18 (CEST)
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Maggie wrote:
>"xactly the way I felt...some people on this forum...ahem...and at another one, visited me in San Miguel...Jeff and I took a road trip and ate the most godawful sushi we EVER ate all over Mexico..."
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>Sushi, my favorite food, but not in Mexico. The Mexicans don't know what to do with seafood. They do make a great shrimp cocktail though. So delicious with Cilantro.

...si mon.
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>"but it is indeed a beautiful place with the most wonderful people and DONKEYS too!"
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>It really is a gorgeous place. Some of it breath-taking, and still unspoiled. I love the Mexican people. So simple, so kind, and so generous. Of course I love their food too. Some of it is so close to ours. I adore their pottery and love the Guadlahara furniture and art. Everything is art in Mexico. Imagine all of Puerta Vallarta is cobble stones. Who would have the patience to do that?

..you mean tey ADDEc cobblestones? Have you been to Mismaloya...the beach just a bit north? There's a big fancy hotel there now but the small beach had a very old hotel made of bungalows once...if you've ever seen the Burton Taylor film of Tennesssee William's...Night of The Iguana"...it's set at that old hotel...when I first visited back in 85...I drove a Jeep down through Baja to La Paz and took the ferry to Puerto Vallarta...first time there...everything was Liz y Dick...Burton and taylor who together with John Huston made that sleepy town famous...anyway, I stayed the night at the Hotel Rio...on what was then the outskirts of town heading south...the next morning I drove out but stopped at Mismaloya for a beer...at the palapa bar there they have a TV set playing that film in a continuous loop...I'd seen it before but had my beer AND camarones as I watched...and there, in the scene where the bus drives through the town on the way to Mismaloya...Burton turns around to look back and you can see the sign and the Hotel...Hotel Rio...they haven't changed and probably never will. At that time the ruins of the hotel Burton and Ava Gardner played out their relationship was still there...now it's a huge eyesore...ah well.
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>...the palapa is 150 miles south of Puerta Vallarta...just before you get to Barra De Navidad..as yet unspoiled by gringos...
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>I know exactly where Barra De Navidad is. I have been there in the eighties. Is it still unpopulated?

...vvery little growth. The little sandbar is still cute...and the huge luxury hotel sits across the laggon entrance...they still have water taxis to take you around...seafood restaurants along the sand...I met a pal down there whose family owns their own island in the lagoon...great playground. Melaque, the twin city just a couple of kilometers up the coast isn't near as charming. But they're all too crowded for me.

I just recently came back from Puerta Vallarta and was thinking of buying a house and retiring there someday. The agents were telling me they will be building new condos there soon. Is that true?

..of course but you'll get ripped off TERRIBLY. I'd suggest you look elsewhere...Vallarta is way too glitzy to retire in..what an awful word. Around Barra is much prettier and the prices far less...and with manzanillo just forty minutes away you have all the comfort things you need to buy.
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>"maybe we can all meet for drinks on a beach somewhere. The place is a federal tortoise preserve so NO heavy development...so far I'm the only one...with miles and miles of pristine beach as far as you can see...ask Jeff."
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>I absolutely hate you. Do you know it triple digits in Turlock today? I'd give anything for the cool ocean breeze.

...I'm not there now...I'm close to San Luis Obispo finishing up an Assyrian sculpture, not Christian, that I've been working on for over a year...brought it with me from Mexico...it's something they can't cast down there...way too delicate and detailed...so I have to be here till I can hand it over to the foundry for casting...then I'm OUTTA HERE.

Oh my GOD!!! You're in TURLOCK!!!! Greater love hath no Assyrian than to spend a summer in THAT place.

Bingo?
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>God I miss L.A.



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