Cuyutlan, Colima, Mexico

As the Band plays away
Celebration time -- all were having a good time

More floats -- the winner will receive $5,000 Pesos

More Floats

Competition of the floats were furious

Most of the population was present on main street

Band playing at the Carnival

Beachside Restaurant

Carnival Time

Charlotte, Cindy, and what's his name

Cuyutlan, Colima, Mexico – a Pueblo on the Pacific Coast about twenty miles south of Manzanillo. We arrived at Carnival (Mardi Gras) time. Cuyutlan is a beach resort catered by weekend visitors from Guadalajara and neighboring cities. Once a busy resort serviced by passenger trains from Guadalajara, today the Pueblo is relatively quiet and peaceful (except for some of the Mexican holidays).

Here we stopped for a week to visit with Cindy’s sister, Charlotte. Charlotte is one of the most interesting people I have ever met. An expatriate whose travels have taken her around the world to all seven continents, Charlotte attended Oklahoma University as a nursing student, upon graduation she joined the armed services and was a flight nurse serving overseas during the Korean War. She completed her master’s degree in San Francisco, and her PhD at O.U. Dean of Nursing at a Texas university, and after accepting a Fulbright scholarship, she took two three year assignments at Universities in Malawi and Botswana, Africa. Returning to the U.S. she worked at the State of Oklahoma Board of Nursing . Again she accepted an invitation to leave the country and served as a professor of nursing in Mexico in Monterrey and Mexico City. She owns two homes in Mexico, Cuyutlan, on the coast, and Ajijic, on Lake Chapala in the high country south of Guadalajara. She lives comfortably and with ease in Mexico and is fluent in Spanish.