Red Foot Bridge

Interesting foot bridge from La Boquita beach across the canal to the Juluapan Peninsula on the north end of Santiago Bay, Manzanillo Colima

Nezahualcoyotl Poem on 100 Peso Note

Nezahualcoyotl was ruler of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian Mexico. Unlike other high-profile Mexican figures from the century preceding the Spanish Conquest, Nezahualcoyotl was not a Mexica; his people were the Acolhua, another Nahuan people settled in the eastern part of the Valley of Mexico, settling on the eastern side of Lake Texcoco.

Nezahualcoyotl has been remembered as a poet. This is because a number of poems in the Classical Nahuatl language written in the 16th and 17th centuries have been ascribed to him. One of his poems is almost hidden on the Mexican 100 Peso Note

Amo el canto de zenzontle
Pájaro de cuatrocientas voces,
Amo el color del jade
Y el enervante perfume de las flores,
Pero más amo a mi hermano: el hombre.

I love the song of the mockingbird,
Bird of four hundred voices,
I love the color of the jadestone
And the enervating perfume of flowers,
But more than all I love my brother: man.

Wikipedia on Nezahualcoyotl

Surfing road trip down highway 200

This video is about a surfing road trip down highway 200 with the first stop at Arroyo Seco about 45 minutes north of where I live in Melaque. Pascuales Colima is their next stop - and although the surf does not look great, they are just in time for a local festival. Following stop is Michoacan and playa Rio Nexpa for some good waves and hammock time.

Nicely done video and sure feels like Mexico.