Moving Catemaco News

Welcome to the new News. The old news was hosted by Yahoo Sitebuilder with Wordpress software. Yahoo does not permit upgrading to newer Wordpress versions. Thus I am junking Yahoo and converting to Google.

The old Catemaco News & Commentary blogs are transferred en masse, leaving out most photos, labels and comments. Some posts were edited and some were deleted.

I have also cleaned out the Yahoo Catemaco Group and transferrred worthwhile posts to the new News

Moving to Catemaco

I thought I was thorougly familiar with Mexico when I decided to move there.
After having lived in Mexico City, Baja California and the old Zihuatanejo and after having visited most of the 32 Mexican states over a 30 year span, I decided to settle in the Yucatan.
Bad idea!

After renting a car and exploring the Yucatan for a month I went home to my Miami hi rise with magnificent views of the the Atlantic Ocean and almost the Gulf of Mexico and studied the maps.
Sure, Merida had excited me for a few days, so did Isla Holbox, Playa del Carmen, Mahajual, and I loved the museum at Chetumal. Campeche almost caught me.

I decided I wanted something aside from the plains of Florida, something with hills or mountains, something green year round and some more personal conditions. Something not within a major city (treehugger at heart), something with some water nearby.
I found Catemaco, on the edge of Laguna Catemaco, at the edge of the Los Tuxtlas Biosphere, and I loved the way the map looked.

So I flew to Mexico City, drove to the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas and promptly busted an oil pan on a dirt road on the side of a hill next to a gurgling creek studded with fresh water shrimp traps.
So I raced back, hopped on the then next available ferry and shipped myself to beautiful downtown Catemaco via the Yucatan.

Let me tell you about paradise....
Or maybe not.

Catemaco News Additions

The Catemaco News & Commentary has expanded its editorial staff.

Joshua Ryan recently joined the staff as a foreign correspondent and will primarily cover the foreign tissues beat. At present he is working under

cover on labor issues involving Mexican nannies in California.

On the local news desk, Daniel Lastimar is now reporting to the Catemaco social news desk on such weighty issues as "What to wear while you are here," and "The best places to feed".

Both are very welcome additions to the Catemaco grape vine.

Catemaco News Contacts & Email

Hi,

We are glad you found us.
Any comment, suggestion, correction or question is welcome.

You can write us at catemaco@gmail.com, or visit us on the Malecon in Catemaco, in front of the Plazuela del Cristo, or talk to us via Google Talk on "catemaco".

Catemaco News is part of http://www.tuxtlas.com/, the Los Tuxtlas Encyclopedia (in progress), consisting of :

http://www.catemaco.info/ - Catemaco Tourist Guide
http://www.catemaco.biz/ - Catemaco Real Estate by Doña Tere
http://www.catemaconews.com/ - Catemaco News & Commentary Blog in English
http://www.catemaconoticias.com/ - Catemaco Noticias Blog in Spanish


The editors:

DZ, Nara, Tere, Isidro, and El Pinolillo

About this Blog

Click to play music to accompany this spiel.

The Catemaco News Blog is an adjunct to the: http://www.tuxtlas.com/ and http://www.catemaco.info/ web sites.

The blog is purely personal and is not intended to entertain tourists with a wonderful Mexican experience. Instead this blog centers on my personal day by day experiences and opinions about primarily Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico.

Although at times writing negatively, I sincerely enjoy my small piece of paradise, abetted by my partner, a descendant of local Popoluca Indians, her offspring of 5 wonderful doctors, lawyers, and so called "licenciados", plus most of the rest of Los Tuxtlas which seems to be related to her.

I will deny that "I wrote it" about most anything negative about Mexico in general, and I hope that keeps the Mexican thought police happy.

I am European on a Mexican FM3 visa who first arrived in the US in 1959 and Mexico in 1962, graduated from what is now the Universidad de las Americas in 1966, In 1972 I settled in the US and in 1988 I scrounged a US passport.

After many years in Europe, the Far East, Australia, the USA, several areas of Mexico and assorted etceteras, I decided to live in beautiful downtown Catemaco, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico in 2002 to enjoy the view and begin to understand why I lived when so many others died, and to take advantage of my good fortune.

DZ
catemaco@gmail.com

Note: post was added with an old time stap to provide a beginning to this blog.

Bienvenidos

This board serves as feedback forum to the http://www.tuxtlas.com/ website.

Please post whatever you like, as long as it´s on topic.

Addendum Feb 2008:
This was the first of about 200 posts I published on Google Groups under Catemaco.
Many of those posts have been transferred here, the rest I deleted.