As some of you know Thom and I are spending a couple of months in Mexico to escape the heat of the summer.  Our location is the small town of Ajijic (elevation 5,046) located in central Mexico around 230 miles east of Puerto Vallarta.  It’s monsoon season here so not only is everything green and lush, the weather is just about perfect.   Ajijic is also on the edge of one of the largest and most scenic lakes in the country (Lake Chapala). We’ve rented a wonderful home with a pool (solar heated of course) that is a short walking distance to downtown and the Malecon (Boardwalk.) Town itself if stuffed with dozens of good restaurants, cute shops and very friendly people—expats and locals.  Sounds just about perfect right?  Well, it’s not. For one thing there are LOTS of mosquitos (remember all that green?)  And for about a week we’ve been experiencing power surges on and off day and night which is more trouble than you might guess.  But the thing is…in practically every single place in the world we’ve been fortunate to visit there is always something—call them power surges or not.  In other words, stuff happens even in paradise.

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