Ali and the kids got to Minnesota just in time to catch the last day of the Washington County Fair. Classic good times.

Little disappointed that they chose to go with a car balancing competition this year, rather than the burnout competition of the past. It was kind of fun watching people do thousands of dollars in damage to their cars for nothing more than a small plastic participation trophy. Nobody damaged their cars at all in the balancing act.

Meanwhile, back in Mexico I started the laborious process of resealing windows. This was the first pane I tried popping out. Fortunately, in our town you are within five minutes of just about anything you can think of. The glass place cut me a new 6mm thick piece to replace this old 4mm piece for $6. At that price I couldn’t help but just replace every single pane. Twenty-four of them on this front window.

I zipped down the road a little ways to Atontonilco, a town I hadn’t visited in probably ten years. I was on the hunt for a gordita stand that I remembered. When I got there I realized it was market day, and also that the town hadn’t changed one bit.

Happy to find what I had come for.

Bistek con Papas quesadilla, and a Pollo en mole gordita for a first course. Bury them in fresh made salsa, wash it all down with horchata, and start to realize how much of this absolute perfection you’ve missed in your life. Then order more.

Next time maybe I’ll try the neighbor’s stand.

Riding home in a delirious food haze.

Back in Minnesota, day two, Lowe’s good friend Charlie, the Australian, arrived from Canada, after having last seen each other in Bora Bora a couple years after first meeting in Mexico. So it goes with boat kids.

A beautiful Minnesota summer day, with all the kids out on the pontoon.

You can’t very well go to Stillwater and not visit Nelson’s. Order the kids size and this is what you get there.

Seeing as I could only replace a couple panes at a time, and I was transporting the glass on the back of a motorcycle, I became a glass shop regular pretty quickly.