Whether you’re looking for form or function, the bathroom sink can help you win the battle of the boring bano

It’s one of the most important items, in what is without a doubt the most important room in your home.

We wash our hands and face in it, we brush our teeth in it and occasionally we accidentally drop a contact lens down its drain.

Driving in Mazatlán requires nerves of steel, a strong sense of survival and good insurance

Traveling the streets of Mazatlán can be exciting, frightening, enlightening, appalling, tons of fun and at times incredibly exasperating - all during a single outing. I’ve traveled the city streets on two wheels and four wheels, in buses and taxies, and of course in the venerable pulmonia. I find the pulmonia to be the most unpredictable, the buses the most consistent, a motorcycle to be the most dangerous, and walking to be quite gratifying.

It may not be what you bargained for, but chances are you’re waking up to it every morning (and trying to sleep through it every night, too!)

Melding into Mazatlán’s unique way of life is a continuous process that slowly permeates your being until your cultural comfort zone is achieved. To be comfortable within this culture, one must be more on the existential side of life than the type of person with an obsessively ordered reality. Life in Mazatlán is best lived with an open mind and an open heart, without an excessive amount of preconceived notions. This culture has many things to offer a gringo in paradise, but the experiences that possess the enduring element of spontaneity are the ones that make southern Sinaloa the unique place that it is.