Jocotepec

 

Well after spending 2 months in Punta Perula it is time to start home, but very slowly. One of our last nights a rainbow started forming.  Maybe to show us what we will miss until we came back in Nov and hopefully start building our casita.

 

On the way to Villa Purificacion we saw these road signs.

We are currently in Jocotepec on Lake Chapala. It seems strange not to hear the surf breaking on the shore.  Now we wake up to birds chirping in the morning instead. Market day is Thursdays, of coarse we had to go. 

 

 

 A delivery of beef for the meat market.

 

On the way to Jocotepec we saw these stacks.  Don't know what they are.

 

The towns around Lake Chapala are very touristy, with large homes on the lake and lots of gated communities on the hillsides. A very congested area. The lake itself is not one we would want to spend any time at. The shoreline is muddy and from what we've seen not very blue.

We took a trip to Tlaquepaque to look for articles for the casita and check prices. It was too much of a tourist town. We plan on going to Tonala where we're told the factories are that make the articles you see in Tlaquepaque. 

It is interesting to see how they have made the wheelbarrows hold more dried leaves.  Don't think you could move the wheelbarrows if you filled them with wet leaves.

Punta Perula and vicinity

Well we have decided to settled in Punta Perula.

 We are in the process of buying a lot. The paperwork won't be complete while we are here so we had to go to Cihuatlan, an hour south, to see a notary to give our Realtor power of attorney to finalize things. Notaries are lawyers that are allowed to handle land.  We are also in the process of trying to find contractors, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, etc to give us bids so we can hopefully build a casita come November. In the process we have met many nice people that have helped us, both with names and things we should know about building in Mexico.

We have tried to explore additional beaches, but again they have been gated with security guards. We spent a day with our RV neighbors going to Villa Purificacion. This is a very old town and they are in the process of restoring the church.

Restored

Back, not completed yet.

 

Beautiful colors inside the church.

It's a lovely town and much bigger than we had thought. We had lunch at one of the restaurants and had a lovely conversation with the owner, who spoke perfect English as he had spent many years working in a restaurant in the US.

 

A pole in the middle of the street. We can only think it is used for some sort of celebration.

 

  

We also did a day going into Tomatlan to get groceries and stop at the bank. These saddles are beautiful and displayed on the sidewalk. 

Fruit on a stick

Another church. They are all so different.

 

  A huge tree on one of the many dirt roads we have been traveling on

 

We went to the meat market in San Mateo. Got some chicken. Definitely fresh and not packaged.
   

Just a few tomatoes, fresh from the fields