Mazatlan 2007

Thursday, February 8 (Ron)

Slow morning at the Fitch hacienda. We had coffee, juice, and cereal. Read some and worked on the computer some.

Shortly after noon I took a bus down to the malecon to get one more bottle of tequila and to take some pictures. After getting down there, I ended up buying tequila, t-shirts, and baseball caps. Took a bunch of pictures, stopped at Senor Frog’s for a couple of beers, watched a beautiful sunset along the malecon, then walked up to the southern end of the Gold Zone and stopped at a place called Cowboy. Johnny Cash was playing on the sound system and Calvin Coolidge was keeping the customers entertained. Not Calvin Coolidge the former president, it was Calvin Coolidge the broom and rocks guy that we met at Chili’s Pepper the other afternoon. He was all dressed up but doing the same gig – challenging anyone that wanted to raise up a broom with three pounds of rocks stacked on the bristle end of the broom. I have yet to see anyone do it other that Calvin, a short, seventy-two year old man. Business was slow for him, so we sat at the bar and talked for a long time. He said he didn’t drink much but would sometimes bet a shot of Jack Daniels instead of the usual five dollars. I knew that I still couldn’t lift the broom, but I told him that I’d take that bet because I wanted to buy him a drink. I couldn’t even get the broom off the ground so I bought him a shot. We sat at the bar and talked while he sipped his drink. A very interesting man, I really enjoyed our conversation. It was getting late so we said good-by and we both headed towards home.