Six months a gringo and no bad days
Six months ago to the day we arrived in Baja California Sur without even knowing that’s what B.C.S. stood for in our hotel’s address as we filled out the entry cards.
Six months on I have a wealth of stories that I feel odd about sharing. Most of them are about how different it is in Mexico compared to Australia. Who knew?! But I can’t find a way to tell the stories without admitting that they were witnessed through my own lens of how the world should be. Paved roads, hot and strong coffee, tacos with proteins other than seafood in them, and the story about the story about George Clooney the bartender told me, all really don’t matter, unless we’re a few whiskies deep around a campfire. It’s different here, not all roads are paved, and gringoes like me have been walking in for years wondering why things here aren’t like home.
The truth is that Mexico is jam-packed with amazing people. We’ve never felt safer and we love it here.
My one takeaway today is that in six months I’ve seen about six clouds. Baja really lived up to its slogan: no bad days.
Our last Baja sunset for a while
Our last day in Baja
Last day of school for the girls in Baja
Never forget the French dancing plague of the summer of 1518.
Charlie Munger on how the world actually works:
Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.
I’ve thought about these three points pretty much every hour of every day since I first read it three days ago in James Clear’s 3-2-1 email
The future of content: video of someone watching a video of someone who wrote a song about their low self esteem sponsored by a real estate agent I’d not do business with if only because I’m not going to click an ad to take me away from watching this train wreck of a video.
Location, location, location #playacerritos
You’ve got to get up early to catch the Mexican Coke dealers
Todos Santos, BCS, on Good Friday
Still the best food and beverage proposition in Baja
Martha!
I’m doing a redesign of a website whilst also moving them from Squarespace to Shopify and I’m pretty sure the cheeky copy sprinkled across the new homepage won’t make it past the first review, but I’m quite proud of it, so I had to share it somewhere.
Good Friday for Luna
I’m going to miss living in the desert when we leave next week. So many cactus started flowering this week and they’re beautiful.
Apple’s gotta be the company to come in and either buy or partner with StabilityAI right?
“Please lower your standards”
Baja sunset
Synecdoche
The worst sin committed by the news media, today is using synecdoches, helping simplify stories, fitting complex stories into headlines or a tweet whilst not representative of reality. People act, not synecdoches. Don’t dehumanise people, reducing their acts to those of the many.
Complex stories deserve gestation time, time for us to understand an comprehend them.