Mexican Moments is a personal account of retirement in Mazatlan, Mexico by writer Sheila Madsen.
We have no intention of ever buying another property again. Yet we do, complete with Mexican bureaucracy and all its trust complications. We are moving to Mazatlan in October, permanently.
I buy a hand- painted ceramic bathroom sink for $20. I have absolutely no use for it. But it looks fabulous propped up in the...
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December has zoomed by faster than a speeding bullet. An apt analogy for Mexico, since the top two fears raised by my friends are the on-going drug wars and health care.
Of course, there are serious drug wars in our state of Sinaloa, but they are not obvious in Mazatlan. Apart from the policemen’s AK47’s,...
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Years ago in Sedona, Arizona, Soren and I contracted Red Rock Fever. It’s not fatal, but it can cost you a bundle. We were enchanted with the desert landscape. It was our second visit to Sedona, and one afternoon, for reasons we will never know, we got talked into a time- share. That’s a...
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Over dinner we sit on our rooftop gazing at the Cathedral glowing in the evening light, and play “if we were to buy in Mazatlan”, where and what would it be? After 20 days and nights we know Mazatlan is for us. It meets our criteria for retirement, but the icing on the tortilla,...
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