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The air smells like cinnamon. You can feel the pulsing music.  We are following our noses  and the beat of the music and the crowd.

The outdoor stage is lit in ghostly pale, icy, blue and white lights. Smoke wafts up  eerily from the footlights.

Alittle while ago i wrote the blog post below. Now I am almost there. My new ebook, the first of ten about life in Mexico will be ready in early November.

It's that time of year again: hurricane season. The season officially opens on May 15th. That is when the National Hurricane Center (NHC) starts sending out  public advisories about hurricanes.

After experiencing four hurricanes in southern Baja, I have come to be an expert on how to prepare. And also having grown up in New Jersey where hurricanes come every year like clock work, I take every hurricane warning seriously.  And I have perfected my preparations to make sure that the  high-maintenance Diva that I am remains comfortable.

Or, what do you do all day? This is what I asked my new friend Melanie when she and her husband Gunter seduced us into buying land near them, south of Todos Santos.