Habits We Are Starting

Already, we are establishing a few anchors to our days:

1. Walk and/or run in the the hills around Guanajuato every morning with Bill. Today, as we started up the hill, we met a neighbor, Alicia, getting her exercise on the camino, and later, Mark met Mauricio, who was with his horse moving a few cows through the hills.

2. Go to the open air market each Saturday and Sunday. You can buy everything from fresh vegetables to honey to jeans to candy to mariachi CDs. Here is what it sounded like as we were buying bananas today (1 kilo for 5 pesos, or, 11 bananas for 40 cents).

3. Go to Cafe Tal, a tiny, friendly coffee shop just down the hill from our apartment. The coffee is great and so is the beso negro - the black kiss - a shot of rich chocolate; we like to sit in the open front window and watch the street activity; the owner, an American named Geoffrey, gave us each a beso negro as a welcome today, and he seems to have a lot of great information to offer.