Barb can drive the car!

Well, we have just learned that we were misinformed about Barb’s right to drive down here! The restriction on driving foreign plated cars applies only to Mexican citizens; they are not allowed to drive foreign plated cars unless the owner or another foreigner is in the car or they are relatives of the owner. I’m not sure how well the ban on Mexicans is enforced because I see many Mexicans driving foreign plated cars. In any case, in addition to family, any foreigner with a valid visa in Mexico (i.e., Barb) can drive the car, even though it is in my name. Also, Barb is listed on the insurance as a qualified driver so we are covered there; insurance companies are very restrictive about who they will cover in the event of an accident. This will make a big difference for Barb; she has been chaffing at not being able to drive. We’ll still the change the ownership of the car to both names in December, but in the meantime, she can drive.

While RoseMary and Larry were here, we had to two big rains, one with a big thunderstorm. We had thought that we were just about finished. Maybe now. The weather is just about perfect. It gets up into the high 20’s in the daytime, but down to 15-18 at night. The days are getting a bit shorter now, but not nearly so dramatically as you experience in the northern climes. Also, we go back to standard time on Sunday. Mexico did not alter its timing when the US (Canada followed) changed the dates to later in November last year. This change will make it better for doing my run in the morning as it has been a bit dark when I run between 7:30 and 8 a.m.

Barb has now moved her fountain more into the middle of the back stone wall as we have cut down some of the Virginia creeper (it is all going to go in the next couple of days). She is thinking of getting bougainvillea to replace it. It does extremely well here and unlike Virginia creeper, it has flowers.

The circus has come to town! Almost directly above us in Upper La Floresta above the Carretera is a water park called Tobolandia. The circus has pitched its tents there. Every day for the last week, trucks carrying or pulling wagons with animals go around the local towns with loud speakers urging people to see the circus. We have seen a tiger, a llama, a baby lion and 2 camels being hauled around. We haven’t gone and don’t really know what kind of show they put on. I think that circuses have pretty well disappeared from Canada and the US.