In a small Mexican fishing village, a young boy and his unconventional father began an adventure that spans over 30 years. I am that boy. My fluent Spanish and a healthy dose of boyhood bravado meant peace and quiet was seldom the order of the day!
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In a small Mexican fishing village, a young boy and his unconventional father began an adventure that spans over 30 years. I am that boy. My fluent Spanish and a healthy dose of boyhood bravado meant peace and quiet was seldom the order of the day!
I met many a character in Mexico but this retired NYPD cop sticks out in my mind because of how he beat the odds year after year to me and my father’s amazement!
The late night murderous attack on my father while we slept peacefully in our beds produced a familiar intuitive understanding that I had experienced two years before when I tragically lost my mother.
The chronology of my many years spent living in Mexico. Being a young American boy and living with my unconventional father proved to be an adventure of a lifetime. In Zihuatanejo a Tropical Paradise with all its beauty and wonder held a secret few Gringos knew. Beautiful beaches and palm trees helped to disguise the violent dangerous underbelly of this small fishing village in southern mainland Mexico.
Our first night in Zihuatanejo. This evening turns out to be a competition with the Hotel owner and my father for the most beautiful woman in all of Mexico.
My first days in Zihuatanejo Public Mexican School; being the only Gringo proves challenging but then I fall in love with the most beautiful girl in this small remote fishing village and things get really interesting.
A ten year old American boy I spend the night alone with a group of terrorists/guerrillas deep in the remote jungles of Guerrero and live to tell the story.
In a small Mexican fishing village, a young boy and his unconventional father began an adventure that spans over 30 years. I am that boy. My fluent Spanish and a healthy dose of boyhood bravado meant peace and quiet was seldom the order of the day!
