Today we took another field trip. It wasn’t as thrilling as the field trip we took to the city center. We were planning to go to a neighboring town, San Miguel de Allende. Instead, we drove to Valenciana. Valenciana is a residential district of the city we are living in.
It is at the top of a hill. We had to drive through a poorer neighborhood to get there, it was reminiscent of driving through Oakland, to get to Piedmont. Valenciana is beautiful, and it comes out of nowhere. Bonnie says all the vendors has closed shop and was a ghost town. It’s sad, we went to a small store to buy candy for the kids, the kids chose potato chips and candy, the price ended up being 40 pesos, essentially a little over two dollars, the man was looking for change, and I just told him to keep it. I can’t imagine the worry those store owners go through every day, wondering where the next money is going to come from. Mexico doesn’t have the infrastructure we have in America. I doubt they have any type of bail out for these small business owners. I really doubt my extra 60 pesos is really going to help, but I will keep those people in my prayers. I will say, when this shelter is lifted, I plan to spend serious amounts of money on these vendors before we move back.
The next few photos are from our journey to Valenciana. The mine has a museum, but it is closed, we did take some photos from the outside. It’s still a working mine, they are mining silver. We also visited a church, I believe it’s called Templo de Valenciana. But I might be wrong.
The dog was taken out of the ravine by the police. We were not the only people calling them about it. Sadly, the dog did not survive, the store owner across the street told me. It’s sad, we did everything we could, one of the urgent care veterinarians told us to bring the dog into our home and try to care for it, then call us. If I had been able to bring the dog from the ravine to our house, it probably would not have survived the trip. I would have never brought an animal into our house here looking the way it looked.
The night ended with a thunder storm, we have had thunder storms almost every day this week. It was nice sitting on the couch upstairs watching the lightning flash. I was going to go to sleep, then realized I had to write this blog.
We have less than 70 days left of this adventure. I’m excited to get back home, I wish we were able to travel within the country more. If they lift the shelter in place in June, we will be traveling the remainder of our adventure. I think I’m going to try to find a company to turn this blog into a book. Now that I’ve been militant about blogging every day, I don’t think I’m going to stop blogging when we move back. I will end this blog a week or so after we move back, so I can add more information about our trip. I’ve tried to be careful not to say exactly where we are, and who we are. Between now and the end of this, I will try to figure out what I’l be blogging about when this is over.
I’m leaning towards writing a blog that is totally private, and only let my children read it when I get to a certain age. We will see.
Our Family Adventure 
Tio Dennis said the little dog was probably a runt and that’s why it was tossed aside after probably a beating, The owner might have wanted a mean ferocious dog and this little one wasn’t what he wanted. Terrible way to treat a little one. I think they need an SPCA down there to protect animals if they don’t have one,
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You mentioned San Miguel de Allende and it is supposed to be an artist’s colony with a lot of Americans living there as retirees. You’ll have to check it out and let us all know about it,
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