At Home in Mexico

Yesterday, Valentine's Day, marked the second anniversary of buying our home in Mexico. We had a long talk over lunch about being here, all the various pros and cons, and what we see in the future. While we are not totally clear that we will be staying here for the long term, we have no other plans. For now, there is noplace that we would rather be.

To celebrate, I made another slideshow video called At Home in Mexico. This one one is almost entirely photos from around our big yard and little house in San Juan Cosala, near Lake Chapala. The music is more Caribbean than Mexican, but I liked it!

 

San Juan Cosala Historic Tour Video

A couple of days ago, Kelly went on the historic tour of San Juan Cosala that I had taken last year. I had run into Gerardo Tolantino, the tour leader and an English teacher here, and asked if it would be okay if Kelly videotaped the tour. He said yes, and here are some selections from the tour:

One of the most interesting things to me is that San Juan Cosala was the first town in the whole Lake Chapala region. It's even older than Guadalajara!

New Videos on Mexico

I've just been having great fun producing a couple of videos on Mexico. I went to a site called animoto.com and uploaded a bunch of our photos. I uploaded some royalty-free music I had for the first video below, and used some of theirs for the second. Their software did all the rest.

Here's one on Mexico in general:

And here's one from our Manzanillo and Colima trip:

If you happen to have a YouTube account, I'd love it if you would rate the videos, or comment, to help them get noticed! To go to them on YouTube, here is the link for first one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvBhJHR3H9k

and the second:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NdzYwYbxzA

If you would like to try something like this yourself, here are some animoto how-to tips from my Internet Marketing blog.

San Juan Cosala Video I Just Made

The other evening, I was playing around with the free Windows Movie Maker, on my Windows XP laptop, and I made a one-minute video about San Juan Cosala, using photos of Kelly's that have been in this blog, along with some music I had the rights to use.

It was fun... maybe the start of a new phase of multimedia for me! You can see it at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7TbYGStMG0