miss_betty2012
Outdoor Cooking
Cooking on an outdoor grid is akin to a national pastime in Mexico. This afternoon and evening we spent time with another of the lovely families at their ranch house outside of San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico. The weather was perfect to enjoy friends and a home cooked chicken stew and tortillas. This family has a beautiful covered patio-bar type cooking area. The stew is being cooked over the fire you can see. This is a lovely place. I walked around and explored the immediate area after dinner. I have several photos of this ranch to share.
I'm at home in Dallas now and life is getting back to normal. The bus trip was 14 1/2 hours due to our bus losing a tire on the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, just before reading the US / Mexico border. We had left Monterrey at 4:30 am. I had left the house at 3:00 am. We had to wait on the side of the road for a replacement tire to be brought to us. Most of us on the bus were sleeping or dozing so we hardly noticed. Then we drove through the streets of Nuevo Laredo until we came to the international bridge where we had to wait in long traffic lines. It took two hours to cross the border. The hardest part is having to take everything off the bus and hand carry all your luggage and everything you have with you up a long ramp, then lift it up to the scanning machine after showing your passport or permit. I now have a new bank card, a new temporary driver's license (got a better photo made) while I wait for my replacement license, and have cancelled the credit card numbers and am waiting on replacement cards. I'm grateful to God that none of my accounts were misused from the time I lost the card wallet, probably in Downtown Monterrey, Mexico. I certainly do feel blessed that nothing happened. It was time to come home anyway so all is well. I basically use Flickr as my photo blog site to keep up with you, my good friends.
I'm still on my tablet and can't place my photos on the map. I did at least once, but don't remember the secret formula. San Juan de los Lagos is in Central Mexico, about an hour south of Aguascalientes.
Outdoor Cooking
Cooking on an outdoor grid is akin to a national pastime in Mexico. This afternoon and evening we spent time with another of the lovely families at their ranch house outside of San Juan de los Lagos, Mexico. The weather was perfect to enjoy friends and a home cooked chicken stew and tortillas. This family has a beautiful covered patio-bar type cooking area. The stew is being cooked over the fire you can see. This is a lovely place. I walked around and explored the immediate area after dinner. I have several photos of this ranch to share.
I'm at home in Dallas now and life is getting back to normal. The bus trip was 14 1/2 hours due to our bus losing a tire on the outskirts of Nuevo Laredo, just before reading the US / Mexico border. We had left Monterrey at 4:30 am. I had left the house at 3:00 am. We had to wait on the side of the road for a replacement tire to be brought to us. Most of us on the bus were sleeping or dozing so we hardly noticed. Then we drove through the streets of Nuevo Laredo until we came to the international bridge where we had to wait in long traffic lines. It took two hours to cross the border. The hardest part is having to take everything off the bus and hand carry all your luggage and everything you have with you up a long ramp, then lift it up to the scanning machine after showing your passport or permit. I now have a new bank card, a new temporary driver's license (got a better photo made) while I wait for my replacement license, and have cancelled the credit card numbers and am waiting on replacement cards. I'm grateful to God that none of my accounts were misused from the time I lost the card wallet, probably in Downtown Monterrey, Mexico. I certainly do feel blessed that nothing happened. It was time to come home anyway so all is well. I basically use Flickr as my photo blog site to keep up with you, my good friends.
I'm still on my tablet and can't place my photos on the map. I did at least once, but don't remember the secret formula. San Juan de los Lagos is in Central Mexico, about an hour south of Aguascalientes.