Category: The Old Gringo

Puerto Peñasco has been at the center of the “perfect storm” of crappy events ever since COVID. If you didn’t know it, we are a tourist-based economy these days. This is as opposed to a fishing/farming-based economy of forty, or...

Did you know that Puerto Peñasco has its own, internationally acclaimed, folk-dance group? Did you know that they took first place in Italy in June of last year against seven other countries including China? Did you know that,...

It really shouldn’t be necessary to write a column like this…but it is. Recently, I heard a story (or read it somewhere on Facebook) about a woman (from the U.S.) who was berating a cashier in our newly opened Wal-Mart...

Writing this column in December of 2024, it is difficult to project into the new year.  After all, Thanksgiving is just past, and Christmas 2024 has not arrived yet. Also, time travel hasn’t been invented yet either. Trying...

Apologies to the late George Carlin for stealing the title of this piece. Lately, though, it seems to me that everything has taken on a surreal vibe. With the presidential election in our collective rear view and Christmas fast...

Here it is, September of 2024…whew! How time does fly. I am ‘remoting’ this column from somewhere in the mountains of Arizona in Strawberry because, as my readers know, I don’t do humid! I keep in touch with a couple of my...

I’d like to tell you that the old gringo is hunkered down at the beach writing this column, and suffering the heat and humidity that is August in Puerto Peñasco, but…NOT! You’re reading this in August, and I’m getting...

If you are reading this, it is July in Peñasco. Hot! HUMID! Since this column is written a month in advance, and we are enjoying a moderately mild June, I am going to assume that the heat doesn’t factor in to your plans to visit...