“The hallmark of the truly innovative inventor is a quality called ‘intelligent ignorance.’  It is an ability to think, coupled with an absence of preconception.”

Charles Kettering

Head of Research at GM 1920 to 1947

Howard and I did five dives in the Cabo San Lucas area.  Our dive master, organizer and driver was Adriana Manjarrez a young woman from Mexico City who has set up as a private diving service.  Her Company is  Saba Diving.  Highly recommended!

The first day we did two shore dives at Bahia Santa Maria on the coast between San Jose and Cabo San Lucas.  The water was warm and the visibility was near 100 ft.

See underwater pictures of what we saw.

The second day we drove to Cabo Pulmo, about two hours toward La Paz and did three dives.  All of them were great.  On the first dive we went looking for white tip sharks.  We didn’t see them but we did see a school of Manta Rays.  There were perhaps fifty of them about two feet across all swimming together.  It was awesome.

The second dive was one of the most spectacular dives I have ever had.  We dove with sea lions.  They played near us looked us in the eye and swam so fast it made our heads spin.  A big male examined us carefully and decided that we weren’t a threat so he hung face down in the water and just watched.

I’d love to go back to Cabo Pulmo and spend a few days visiting all of the sites there.  This is the harbor:

and this is one of the restaurants:

More pictures from our trip here

A few weeks ago we went to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico with our good friends Howard and Aty.  We stayed at Club Solaris, an all inclusive, time share resort in San Jose del Cabo where they had some coupons.

I was suspicious of all inclusive and time share but it turned out to be great.  Howard and I dove with Sea Lions, we all went on a humor safari and a snorkeling cruise.  We ate a delicious meal in a beautiful setting at Tequila in San Jose Del Cabo which is a lovely town.

on the last day we saw a Mexican Independence Day Parade that was marvelous.

We saw a whale.

Party Animals

One of my tasks was to find five things about Mexico that are better than the USA.  I did find them and you can read all five here.

More Photos on Flickr

In the USA you have to have permits, inspections and equipment to open a restaurant.

In Mexico all you need is ambition, two plastic chairs and a wood fire.

Excellent Coffee!

In the USA you never know if the water is drinkable.

In Mexico they put a sign near the faucet:

In Mexico Jesus is everywhere:

This Jesus has a name tag

In Mexico they sell puppies from their car trunks:

In the USA we have:

THE POUND

In Mexico they have attractive fire valves.

A Mexican Valve

A California Valve

On This date (November 14) in 1940, during World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry.  Thank to David Blacher for this history note.

Jewish is a Language:

At least it was in 1891

When this Yiddish-English dictionary was published

It is available in the PJTC Library where I am the esteemed librarian