Our Shortest Visit in San Miguel--No Excuses This Time

We are back in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. But this time, it’s just a short visit. Only five days. Micha decided to get his dental implants here, because it was less than half the price of what the procedure costs back in California. Yes, even with the additional costs of travel. He used frequent flyer points and the living expenses here are so low.

Micha flew down here by himself a couple of months ago for the painful part.

I felt sort of bad about not being with him to offer emotional support. But he took solace from the fact that I was earning money back home doing my contract job. Fortunately, through connections that we had made during previous visits, Micha arranged for room and board with a really nice Mexican family, who were as supportive as possible during that visit.

This time, we are staying with the same family and the dentist will be finishing her work. No pain for Micha. And plenty of free time in between dental appointments for us to enjoy San Miguel.


When we came here together for previous visits—three or four weeks at a time--we had a full schedule of Spanish classes or else I was busy all day at the International Writers’ Contest.

Now, we have no classes and no particular framework.

This morning, I walked Micha part-way to his dental appointment and bought the weekly bi-lingual periodical, Atencion San Miguel, to check out what’s going on in the Que Pasa calendar of events. Maybe this time, we will go on the organized walking tour of the historic sites. We’ve never done that, because we’ve always been busy in the mornings.

I had intended to do some of my technical writing work remotely, since we are not constantly going to be doing other activities. So after walking with Micha as far as the Jardin, I came back alone to the place we are staying and logged into my laptop computer, eager to work.

But even though the internet connection seemed to be running smoothly, I ran into some sort of problem accessing the company’s servers. I contacted the help desk, but it’s not a simple problem to resolve. So it looks like I won’t be doing any technical writing this week after all.

Now, I have no excuses not to do my “other” writing. The writing that I always say I cannot do because I am too tired from sitting at the computer doing my hours of paid technical writing.