In 1989 Steve & I were travelling in the States in a clapped out Combie. Our visas were about to expire & in those days a simple trip across the border & back was all that was required to renew one.
We decided to see a bit of Mexico & headed for Tijuana, once we got there we decided that wasn't the real Mexico & headed further south, 3 months & 10,000 miles later our love affair with Mexico was begun!
From then on we always said, "one day we'll have a couple of kids & take them to live in Mexico". 2005 rolled around, we had 2 kids aged 6 & 8 by that stage & decided that was the year.
Off we headed to Mexico for a 6 month adventure that turned into 11months. While we were there we re-visited San Miguel de Allende & that became our home for 2005. We met many good people there & bought a little piece of land. Why not? we thought - it was only US$15,000 & maybe one day we might like to live there?
Home to NZ we went to get on with our lives & forget the adventure, but we couldn't get Mexico out of our minds. So... sticking to the theme of living a life less ordinary, we sold our house in NZ, gave most of our posessions to the City Mission, farewelled our kiwi friends & family (who no doubt though we were loco!) & headed back to Mexico.
We left with just 8 suitcases of belongings, mostly toys! & had an amazing holiday with our good friends in Sweden on the way (but that's another story!) & landed back in San Miguel on 20 July 2007.
We are having many adventures here in San Miguel, all good fodder for the blogosphere, but this blog is specifically to document the construction of our new casa here in a little mexican colonia called Montes de Loreto, half way up a craggy cactus outcrop looking back into San Miguel de Allende.
2 comments:
I like the idea of a Jesus Cactus.
Could you include more photos of Jesus leaving his mark across Mexico. Easter must be a blast where you are...
And I'm sad that you think we are The City Mission - seeing as we were the benefactors of quite a bit of your stuff. SY
All credit to you, building a house is stressful enough without the added bonus of keeping everyone else informed and interested. Jus
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