What to do...

What do the gringos do here in the winter?

Apart from thinking what else they could build around their motor homes and palapas, there are several activities they seem to engage in: drinking (not my thing), going out to eat (mostly to expensive places, while I prefer local and cheap), hiking in circles (my knees hurt and going in circles makes me dizzy), playing golf (green fees too high for me), fishing (great - but once you go out in a boat, gas cost becomes substantial; and fishing from shore has not been very yielding recently), biking (my regular thing - on Sundays a group goes together: target being a breakfast place within some 10 k or so), playing cards (not my thing), reading (that's what i was doing much of the day today until i became tired of it and decided to add something to this blog. What I am missing is an active, diversified sports program. But for me that would be kind of limiting these days because of knee problems, and so it probably goes with most others. Oh, there is also swimming. See next.

Does all this sound a bit boring? True - but lets not forget that the temperature today is about 26 Celsius, while in Calgary it is minus 26, and in Vancouver people have trouble with snow!