Jan 22. Just hanging out.

Interesting RV "neighbourhood" we are in. This group of about eight campers. We are located about 200 yards from downtown in an ancient hacienda grounds. 

One neighbour beside us is a mechanical engineer from the States. Him and his wife and their two-year-old son sold a property in Michigan. They are now on the road. For how long they do not know.

On the other side of us is that huge Unicat that I mentioned. he is a software multimillionaire who spends his time mainly here and other places around the world 

Beside them is a couple that was formally from Germany and 20 years ago moved to Colorado. He is a high-end builder and spends a large number of months each year travelling between south and north America.

Across from them is a widowed lady from Kansas. She is driving a super deluxe airstream Mercedes sprinter. She and her dog are on the road and visiting her sister who now resides here in San Miguel. 

 Beside her is a couple with a very unique Element Honda car. He owns a financial institution business and they too are on the road for a number of months every year. His Element is loaded with every contraption imaginable including a roof that pops up for a sleeping quarters. They are here for a couple of weeks leaving to a bed-and-breakfast for a couple weeks and coming back for an extended period of time.

Directly across from us is a software engineer originally from Bulgaria who spent 20 years in the USA. He learned his trade in Boston and New York and now along with his wife who is a PhD in physics and their two young daughters, spent the last two years and one more year travelling north and South America.  They are home schooling their two daughters while on there trip. After talking with me, he is seriously looking at kelowna as an eventual site to set up a base for his software business that focuses on the finical services industry.  

Beside them are a couple who are our age and have been doing three-month trips to Mexico for the past 20 are years. They have a totally converted Mercedes sprinter van that is 10 years old. Just recently he ordered a second one and plan to keep their lifestyle for the for seeable future. Back home in the USA he owns a small mattress company.

    Beside them is Kelly who is a professional diver and has worked a lot in the Cayman Islands. He would be in his late 40s and has taken a five year sabbatical from diving and is travelling throughout North America. S coincidence is that his father resides in  Sicimous, BC. He has spent much time in Canada and most of last summer at his parents place and Sicamous where he helped set up to a museum with his father. 

And finally there is us!  The Canadians who keep asking questions!😃

I have mentioned how friendly the people and camping areas are in this country before. This is definitely no exception within a day you meet everybody and within two days you start to really get to know them.

We found out why it was so busy on Saturday. That was the anniversary for the beginning of the Mexican Revolution for independence. Every year it is celebrated with parades and festivals. One of the huge parks in this town was a focal point for that event.

 

Sunday we walked the old town and spent the evening at a restaurant 

where we were able to watch the Steelers and New England Patriots play football. In the café we met a very interesting young couple of Mexicans. They were very educated. One was a geneticist retraining for a business degree. His girlfriend was a business graduate focussing on stock/share finance transactions for IBM in Guadalajara. They were multilingual and she was in the process of looking for transfer to Germany so she could get a better grip On international finance and learn the German language. There is definitely an educated group of people in this country in spite of the fact that the average traveller only sees and meets the group of Mexicans who have been less fortunate with their educational opportunities.

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