New Years in La Cruz

 Happy New Years Day to All
Gypsywind and crew ( including Victor) are tied up at the dock in La Cruz . reunited with our friends,Mishach, Whacha gonna do, and Evergreen. Victor came in on the 29th, we met him with a car rental (last one in all PV). we went downtown, old Puerto Vallarta that evening for dinner. wll to wall tourists, we ate at a Mexicain reasturant, complete with an eight piece Mariachi band. Music was pounding, night clubs a shaking, it felt like Cabo all over.The contrast was great to the village (La Cruz) where we made home. La Cruz is real mexicain with a few non mexicain owned resturants sprinkled in for the skweemish. but even they are real because the owners have been here 10, 20 years, and are the community. The music seen is big here,a lot of bands or acts to take in. We enjoyed a intamate consert of famed Willie &Lobo, flamingo gutar with electric violin,Willie could make the violin sound like humpback Whales, birds ect. all of which he incorporated into the songs, Lobo , worl;d famous gutarist, live 2 blocks away (La Cruz) Nikita was inspired and was able to understand his training through the fingering of Lobo, who he didn't take his eyes off all night. Nikita pointed out that Lobo had a few bad habits that he must have picked up when he was learning, that aside the man was fantastic, using the gutar as a precusion instrment, the bass and the lead, which he shared with Willie. Can you tell I was amazed.
    Victor is loving the vibe of the town, where everyone says hi and stops to talk, even if it is in sign languasge.Our favorate past time is walking the streets with our children and calling into the shops, some of which are little more than wood sheds without the wood. The Mexicain soul does not need comforts to be happy, thier focus is just to be happy.