In a small Mexican fishing village, a young boy and his unconventional father began an adventure that spans over 30 years. I am that boy. My fluent Spanish and a healthy dose of boyhood bravado meant peace and quiet was seldom the order of the day!
Caleta Cove Answers the Mystery of Why I lived in Mexico for Five Years Instead of Seattle, Washington.
I learned the art of bow and arrow lagoon fishing from the family that lived on the edge of the lagoon in Acapulco.
I met many a character in Mexico but this retired NYPD cop sticks out in my mind because of how he beat the odds year after year to me and my father's amazement!
Being a Hero comes at a cost at the famous Pie de La Cuesta beach in Acapulco!
I become friends with an usual Mexican family and discover a secret!
I take the newlyweds to see the infamous cliff divers of Acapulco only to discover tragedy in their marriage while still in its infancy.
Forty years after a bloody night in Zihuatanejo I discovered the truth behind the violence
The nightly violence continues as I struggle to understand who exactly would do this to us and why?
The late night murderous attack on my father while we slept peacefully in our beds produced a familiar intuitive understanding that I had experienced two years before when I tragically lost my mother.
The chronology of my many years spent living in Mexico. Being a young American boy and living with my unconventional father proved to be an adventure of a lifetime. In Zihuatanejo a Tropical Paradise with all its beauty and wonder held a secret few Gringos knew. Beautiful beaches and palm trees helped to disguise the violent dangerous underbelly of this small fishing village in southern mainland Mexico.
A mere sampling of the many adventures that lay ahead!
Our first night in Zihuatanejo. This evening turns out to be a competition with the Hotel owner and my father for the most beautiful woman in all of Mexico.
My first days in Zihuatanejo Public Mexican School; being the only Gringo proves challenging but then I fall in love with the most beautiful girl in this small remote fishing village and things get really interesting.
A strange turn of events leads to the murder of the best friend of the Captain of the Port.
My Water Taxi business causes a ruckus in town and at our house in a major way.
Every day in Zihuatanejo was a blank page waiting to be written!
After Many Trials and Tribulations I am finally accepted at the Mexican Public School in Zihuatanejo.
A ten year old American boy I spend the night alone with a group of terrorists/guerrillas deep in the remote jungles of Guerrero and live to tell the story.
Desperate times call for desperate measures so I hatch plan that threatens to kill me!
Monsoon season turns deadly and I find myself right smack dab in the middle of the fight for the future of Zihuatanejo’s residents.
Chronicles my time spent in Mexico as a young boy with my unconventional father. An adventure spanning 30 years from an unwitting appearance in a guerrilla camp in the state of Guerrero to my near death - experience crossing a river alone after a storm, to dragging my father to safety after a violent attack, I learned that life in another country is fraught with danger to go along with the beautiful sunshine and tropical beaches.
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