CIVL Meeting in Manzanillo

It was a rough week. I traveled the hour plus drive to the coast and spent some glorious days on the beach in Manzanillo. My excuse was the CIVL plenary, but I really had nothing to do with that other than enjoying seeing some old friends there.


Rented scooters and explored the first two days. No doubt this is considerably more dangerous than hang gliding and I was sure more than a few times that I would be run over.

It's really hard to think of leaving here at the end of the week. I've fallen in love with so many things about this part of Mexico and I only hope Mateo and Meri decide to settle down here so I can come back on a regular basis.





For the last few days, the CIVL wives club let me tag along with them. We shopped, gossiped, burned our skin and drank too many gin and tonics on the beach and generally had a great time.





From left to right here are Sheila (fiance of the CIVL president), a sweet girl who is the wife of the representative from Iceland (and whose name I would butcher if I attempted to spell it), me, Daphne (girlfriend of the Dutch representative) and Amy Zieset (wife of US representative Jim Zieset).


The resort was a nice fairly quiet place on the side the hill overlooking the bay. The stairs up and down to the beach, the internet, the tienda and the breakfast room got rather tiring after the first day or so, but the view was worth it.








Here's Daphne again.