Looking out my backdoor: An out-of-mind experience

Because of the pandemic, health cautions and precautions, these past several days, I’ve found myself to be the only gringo in town, or to be precise, on the ranch.

Tom and Janet drove their big yellow cargo van to Arizona for medical appointments and to bring back another load of belongings from storage.

Lani and Ariel exited Etzatlan about when winter entered, gone off to lounge on a beach somewhere near Manzanillo.

John and Carol, in a fit of stir-crazy, packed up their ancient VW Van-Go and took off just because they could.

Exactly one year ago this week we began hearing news about this str...