Ajijic in the 1960s and the Lake Chapala Review

The other day, I read an intriguing article about Ajijic in the 1960s, reminiscences of an American who lived here then. It begins, "Most of what one sees today around Ajijic did not exist in the 1960s," and goes on to tell the tale of what life was like. Rugged, difficult, idyllic, fascinating.

I was going to summarize some of the high points. But then I went to the website of the Lake Chapala Review at http://www.lakechapalareview.net/ and was pleased to see that the whole issue is online, so you can read the article (and the whole magazine) from wherever you are.

Go to the Table of Contents of the April 2007 issue. I've copied part of that page so you can see the pages you'll want for this article, which is called "On Lake Chapala."

Clicking on the links for pages 28,29,30, and 31 will yield four separate one-page PDF downloads A little awkward, maybe, but hey, it works! I was delighted to discover that they've been doing this for several months.

The Lake Chapala Review has lovely covers and you can view them at
http://www.lakechapalareview.net/cover_photogallery.html

This magazine is free and widely distributed in the Lake Chapala area. If you aren't here but are thinking you'd like to, keeping up with the magazine would give you more of the flavor of life here. There are lots of ads, too -- and you can learn a lot about a place from the ads.