Luis Alfredo Estavillo Chávez– In Training

Luis is “in training” to do a swim of the 9 Bays of Huatulco.  Now, I always new that Luis swam mornings in the great Pacific Ocean with his faithful dog, but I didn’t know until recently that he was working on a plan to swim all nine bays.  During a recent swim, he had the “unforgetable experience” of being accompanied by Open Water Dolphins on the section from Santa Cruz to Conjeos. Here is a photo of Luis and the dolphins. Click on the photo to see Luis swimming with them  –

 

 

 

 

 

 

 If you go to the “pages” section of this Blog (on the right of the Blog), you can open a page of more photos of Luis making the swim from Santa Cruz to Bahia de Conejos, a distance of approximately 10.5 km.  He reported that the swim took him approximately 3hrs and 50 minutes. He is continuing to train for swimming from the Bahia of San Agustin to the Bahia of Santa Cruz, a distance of approximately 13km.  This swim is planned for TODAY, July 21st or perhaps the 22nd, depending upon sea conditions.  THEN, on approximately August 18th or 19th, Luis plans to swim ALL 9 Bays for a total distance of about 23km.

Now, this event is not really about Luis and his dear spouse Elva.  They believe they have been very blessed in recent years and have a plan in mind to express their appreciation for the good things in their lives.  Pehaps Luis will share more about this plan with us on another occasion.

 http://huatulcoparadise.wordpress.com/luis-alfredo-estavillo-chavez-in-training/

Stephen 

  

Silversard and MsSardo — Genuine Tourist(s).com

 

Silversard (Stephen) and MsSardo (Patricia) are two very excited people because WE are just about six months out from living in southern Mexico.  Here is “the Plan.”  We “leave on a jet plane” for Veracruz, Mexico, on 01-29-08, where we will spend a few days snorkelling before traveling by bus to the mountain city of Xalapa.  Upon arrival in Xalapa, we hope to take up residence in the city for one or two months.  We have never been to Veracruz or Xalapa and thought it would be nice to start our retirement in two new places in Mexico. 

After some time in Xalapa, we will travel to Oaxaca City, a city that we have visited several times.   We are interested in Oaxaca City for a possible residence but will be in a “traveler” mode on our first trip, attempting to see more of the “Central Valley” at a more leisurely pace than in times past.   

At some point in our explorations, we may “branch out” from Oaxaca City and travel to Puebla.  We have heard that the city has many nice parks, and we know from experience some very nice people.  Upon arrival in Puebla, we will be at about 6000 feet which should provide some relief from the ”warming” temperatures.  

We may then turn our attention to a small city named Tlaxcala just a short distance to the east of Mexico City.  We would like to meet Bob Cox, an expatriate, who lives nearby and is a professional “genuine tourist” guide.  In recent weeks he has set up his first Yahoo Grupo about Tlaxcal which you can check out at – 

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TlaxcalaTourism/

Of course, it may be even “hotter” by then, so we thought escaping to Tlaxcala at 7,200 feet may be offer some relief.  If not, I suppose we could just go higher Regardless, we will return to Oaxaca City by late May because we will need to fly back to Chicago, USA, in order to re-unite with our family and spend some of the summer traveling in the western USA. 

Our travels would not be complete, however, without spending some time on the southern Pacific coast in Huatulco, near Santa Cruz.  We have been visiting Huatulco since 1998 enjoy its small town, laid back atmosphere.  We hope to spend some time visiting with Roberto and Pauline of Hurricane Divers.  Roberto also recently launched at new Yahoo Grupo website at –

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hurricanedivers/

You might want to check out all of his newly posted underwater videos. 

You can follow us in our travels by checking us out at –

http://www.genuine-tourist.com  

because it will direct you to websites that we are posting on during our travels.  Yes, sometimes it will take you to Xalapa (Jalapa) or Veracruz or Oaxaca City or Tlaxcala or Puebla or Huatulco . . . just try it and see.

Hurricane Divers — 03-2007 Video of Huautlco

Good morning, one more time!

Hurricane Divers is owned and operated by Roberto and his wife literally on the beach at Santa Cruz.  They had the “misfortune” of beginning their business shortly before the only hurricane in anybody’s living memory hit Huatulco and other cities along the southern coast, so they named their new business after the experience.  The ”attached” video features their excellent excursions and also has some nice music.  You can visit Roberto’s new Yahoo Grupo at –

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hurricanedivers/

Stephen — Genuine Tourist, reporting

Hello world!

 

 You have found a companion Blog to the Yahoo Grupo Huatulco Paradise at — http://www.HuatulcoParadise.net

This site will operate as a “Photo” Blog, mainly, because Yahoo, in its “infinite wisdom” has decided to eliminate the ”Photo” section of Yahoo Grupos.  If you would like a photo posted, please e-mail the photo (as an attachement) WITH A WRITTEN DESCRIPTION to me at – Silversard@Yahoo.com  

You can view sample photos by clicking on “PHOTO PAGES — HUATULCO +” on the right hand side of this page.  More pages and photos will be added in the weeks and months ahead.

The Yahoo Grupo website has over 500 members and is active.  Please visit it at –  http://www.HuatulcoParadise.net

Stephen — Genuine-Tourist.com