Category: Mexico19

On  Sunday we were wandering around a neighborhood, away from the center, and stumbled on a parade. We don’t know the purpose of the parade.

Here is a picture of the Fountain of the Frogs in the daylight.

Also a picture of the stairs and sidewalk down the hill outside of our apartment.

Last evening when we were coming back from the supermarket, we noticed that the Fountain of the Frogs was on. We took the groceries home and waited until it was dark before returning, after the lights took full effect. There was a large gathering of people around the fountain (don’t know why), so we decided to view the fountain from above.

I should explain something about the topography near our apartment. We’re on a hill, which I shouldn’t have to mention because everywhere is on a hill in Guanajuato. Directly out our door is a small park. If we walk to the left then south, we can go down the stairs to the street with the supermarket. If we walk to the right then south, we walk past the old train station to an area/promenade overlooking the fountain. You’ll see from the pictures below that we are quite high. The pictures were taken from the level of our apartment. To the left of the fountain is the supermarket. We can walk there in 3 minutes, but it takes 10 minutes to climb the steep stairs back home. ?

There must have been a special event because not only was the fountain displaying colorful water spouts, there were two guys twirling fire sticks, like at a luau. Music was also playing (Mexican not Hawaiian). When the music stopped, there were fireworks.  It was very nice.

On one of our walks, we saw some art that caught our eye. It was done with spray paint and a trowel or stick. The painting is of the Callejon del Beso. You can Google it. We’d seen that site last year when we were here. The painting cost about $5.

Instead of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the order of how we got here is automobile, bus, train, train, plane, plane, and another automobile.

When we decided to spend two months in Guanajuato, we were still living in the Seattle area. At some point after buying the plane tickets, we decided to sell our house and move to Oregon. It was ridiculously expensive to rebook the plane tickets, so instead we took Amtrak to Seattle and stayed overnight in a hotel before our flight, which was way cheaper. One long travel day turned into two long travel days. Not complaining, it was a self inflicted problem, and we are retired and have nothing but time.

We left home on Friday, took an Uber to the train station, Amtrak put us on a shuttle bus to Portland, from there we caught the train to Seattle, then we took the light rail from downtown Seattle to the airport. That took about 7 or 8 hours.

On Saturday, we flew from Seattle to León with a four hour layover in Los Angeles (length of layover was not our idea, Delta can change their flight time for free). The layover ended up being 5 hours due to a late arriving flight attendant. From León we took a taxi to Guanajuato, about 30 minutes away. The plane left Seattle at 6 am (pst) and we arrived in León around 7:30 pm (cst).

We’ll have to reverse this process to get home, but we don’t have to think about it until the end of March.