Chatting with Colorado Mexican Americans

The other day, we got a storage unit in a nearby town here in Colorado, another step towards heading south to live in Mexico. The young man who helped us is a third-generation Mexican-American owner of the facility. I asked if he spoke Spanish and he said not really... muy poco. He does go to Mexico from time to time, to San Carlos or Baja.

A woman working in the office said that she speaks Spanish well, and that her family here has relatives in the state of Chihuahua, not far from El Paso. Her boy friend's family has relatives in Chiapas, almost to Guatemala, so between them they cover the north and south of Mexico. I asked her how recently she'd been to Mexico, and she said it had been twenty years. She didn't look to be over 30.

I don't draw any conclusions from these chats, but thought they were interesting.