San Miguel is a five hour, pleasant, buss ride from here at Lake Chapala. We can guarantee you that these busses are loaded with all the amentias and much more pleasant than any plain ride that you have ever been on. Very spacious comfortable seats that recline almost to a horizontal position, air conditioning, a bathroom and a place to serve your self coffee and tea, clean windows, movies, and smooth ride. So set back and enjoy this trip.
San Miguel fell into an economic depression around the mid twenties. Land and buildings were abandoned and readily available. Much like the So-Ho story of lower Manhattan. So the Artist picked up on this fact and moved in. The government took notice and built a big beautiful Art University here and thus the story unfolds. Art, Culture, entertainment of all sorts, diversity, and pleasure. Ahh, life is good.
This place was selling art from found objects. Wally was particularly
Interested in this rather unique motorcycle. Although we did not have time to get it running, he allowed that brother John would have it going in no time.
Wal figures that this one would be much easer to get going but may be a little more challenging to handle.
San Miguel was founded for its rich silver deposits. The Spaniards had a way of figuring this out way back in the mid 15 hundreds. You can only imagine how the Silver Art/Craft has developed in the past 500 years.
This magnificent cathedral was constructed in the mid 15 hundreds when this settlement was just a simple little mining town. Apparently the Spanish Conquistadors could see that this was a major location and built things to last.
This is the front Door of the Cathedral, just to give you a little glimpse of the magnitude of this structure. By the way, San Miguel is all about Walls and entrance doors. Following will be a Blog just on the Doors and knockers of San Miguel.
Just one of the amazing meals and camaraderie that we shared on our visit.
Another Mystery, We came across this ancient foundation during one of our mountainous ventures. Anyone's guess.
We occasionally came across an abandoned building that for some unknown reason was passed by in the new renovation/development.
Narrow streets, side walks and alley ways is what it is all about here in San Miguel, we just happened to be staying in a beautiful home on this alley way.
A pleasant return home after a fulfilling day. The pleasant soft lighting of these narrow cobble stone streets are pleasure in themselves.
Barb and I collected a few of these Bark Paintings, years ago. I was overcome with the beauty of this one for a mere twenty dollars. Sorry, over budget.
I have figured out that one way of keeping things looking ole is to employ Old methods. It is easy to imagine that this old paving method has been used for hundreds of years. What a great way of preserving the past.
An invite from Wal, to climb the mountain behind us, for a spectacular view of the city, proved every bit the worth of the arduous ascends.
This 30-inch pipe delivered water from the head of this canyon, to San
Miguel, for over one hundred years, which ended in 1970. It is hard to imagine the engineering involved with this incredible fete, let along the pain and suffering by the men that built it.
This stone dam, lies at the head of the canyon that we walked up.
Constructed around 1870 it was surely an Engineering marvel as well as the 30-inch pipe that delivered the water to San Miguel for over one hundred years.
Thought that I would leave you with a sampling of the Doors of Old San
Miguel. My next blog will be a collection of my obsession with the Doors and Knockers of San Miguel
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