Sunday, February 15

I started off to run, but am feeling achey and stiff, so I changed to walk mode.

After a bit of beach. I cut back into the small side streets. They still interest me a lot. Pretty nice fine houses behind high walls next to shacks next to unfinished houses that appear to have been left behind. The common Mexicans seem to stock pile materials as a form of saving, rather than (or along with) money. It is common to see piles of cement bricks along the lot lines.

I finally found the neighborhood Turkey, a big Tom, strutting and preening at me or the chickens.

Here's some pictures of an unfinished house about a half mile nearer to town. This one is on piles, (to allow storm surge to pass under it??)

I have no idea why they stop midway through. There are lots of places in various stages of completion. Maybe the housing collapse hit here too.

I just know that if you are a neatnick, you won't be happy here. I don't think there is a zoning officer to call, filled with righteous indignation, to get your neighborhood cleaned up/ ( :-) )

Toward the walks end I went back to the produce stand. I bought a Toronja (grapefruit) a few bananas and a Jicama (a big turnip looking thing) I thought it might be sweet potato like, but it's more potato. 

There are always piles of things that look like potatoes, so I'll get a new kind each trip and try it out.

At home I fried up half of the Jicama and it was, indeed, potatoish. No big difference.

This is a camote. It looks just like a sweet potato back home. For some reason, there are  none in the mercados. Maybe they are out of season here.

A tip for my hiking friends:

If you can find a latin american market that sells "Tasajo" buy some. When I translate the name, my computer said "Jerky"

It is the leanest thinnest sliced beef you will ever see. It comes in pieces about three foot long. It would save a lot of work trimming for your home dehydrated jerky.

Late in the day, I went for a run/walk and passed the house pictured above. This time there were 4 or 5 kids playing on a side porch and the door was ajar. Maybe someone actually lives there without window glass and decking?? It's kind of hard to tell.