A Catch Up Article - Vacation

Nostalgia… Off we go! July 9, 2024 - first to Mexico City then to see my family at Lake Minnetonka, to Olivia and Parker, Tommy and Jessica and finally to Guadalajara in August where my love affair with Mexico began 58 years ago; the second leg of my culinary tour. I was in school in Guadalajara in the late 60’s and early 70’s when there were 1.2 million people in the city; now there’s over 6 million. We use to drive the road to Puerto Vallarta on the weekends before it was ever completed when only 2 hotels were on the beach: the Real and Posada Vallarta. I went back to Guadalajara for another round in the 90’s when I was running seminars in multiple cities in Mexico. I was one of the first to ride the Tequila train back in 1997 when Ferromex hosted a group of customers on what would become a very long, tequila tradition. I’ll take a repeat trip with Tequila Sauza in August. We’ll also be going to the agave fields in Tequila to visit Codigo 1530, who has a tasting room in SMA. We didn’t take many pictures; there were no cell phones or social media. Life was good. I was certain that living in Chapalita was better than anything because all you had to do is look out the window; if it was happening in Guadalajara, it happened at Minerva it still does today. I’m sure I wouldn’t recognize Guadalajara at all when I go back in August but I’m so happy to have the chance to take it all in again some 58 years later. Mexico is magic indeed. See you in September.