Farewell San Miguel

I am feeling rather sad about leaving San Miguel on Sunday. It has been a lovely, restful time here. It is a wonderful place to visit and probably a wonderful place to live. It has always been sort of my dream to live in a place like this. It all goes back to my Scottish grandmother telling me she woke up every morning and looked out her bedroom window to see Stirling Castle. When my sister Cate and I visited Stirling five years ago I was enchanted by the narrow tangling cobblestone streets and old old buildings. I find the natural beauty of Cabo amazing everyday and I never tire of constantly viewing the mountains, the ocean and the desert. But the towns of San Jose and Cabo St. Lucas are not architectually interesting or historic. San Jose has a little charm but nothing compared to San Miguel. SM is a tourist town like Los Cabos but here there are fewer tourists and the gringos speak Spanish, bad sounding Spanish but Spanish. They do not expect everyone to speak English just because they do. You feel here like you are really living in Mexico.

I am actually a bit nervous about going back to such intense heat and humidity. I will never forget the first few days I spent in San Jose. It was so hot all I could do was make it out of my air conditioned hotel room to the restaurant to eat and then back to my hotel room. It stayed that hot until early October when it began to slowly cool off. My new school does not have air con like Mission. I just pray to god they have fans. I know I will adjust ok and I have three new swim suits I can wear at the beach where I will probably try to spend as much time as I can. I do miss the mountains and the ocean. I doubt I will not have to stand out in the heat and load students into their fancy air conditioned cars. I will be teaching high school this year and these kids do not have families with fancy cars.

Guess I need to look for a charming, culturally flowering colonial city surrounded by mountains and desert near the ocean where the people speak Spanish. Or I could stop whining and just be grateful. Speaking of grateful, Betty, the owner of our new place just left Cabo after 10 days finishing up all the projects she had going on at our new condo. She had to put in a whole new kitchen because the rats came up the toliet and ate her kitchen last year. The lower level has a huge patio with palm trees and I know we are going to love, love, love being out there come October. Those of you planning to come down this year I know will really love the new digs. So no more whining, just sweating for a couple months while being very grateful.