Comments on: Fun Stuff http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/09/20/fun-stuff/ Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:25:51 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Nancy http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/09/20/fun-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-1100 Nancy Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:54:13 +0000 http://www.countdowntomexico.com/?p=551#comment-1100 Steve and American Mommy, I think we should look up Babs for her trip advice, sounds wonderful! And Babs, thank you, I hope to get there this winter. Steve and American Mommy, I think we should look up Babs for her trip advice, sounds wonderful! And Babs, thank you, I hope to get there this winter.

]]> By: Babs http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/09/20/fun-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-1099 Babs Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:38:00 +0000 http://www.countdowntomexico.com/?p=551#comment-1099 Well all of you let me know when you're ready to go to the reserves. Chinqua is one of the 9 reserves and it is abeautiful three hour drive from San MIguel. It is an adventure to go. You leave here about 8AM, get there, get on the horses and ride up to 10,000 ft. Then you walk on this volcanic ask kind o fdirt and voila there are bazillions of butterflies EVERYWHERE! Bet time to go - enf of February when it has warmed up a bit and they are flying some..............I have an extremely knowledgeable guide who is Mexican and who formed the Audubon Society here in San Miguel about 20 years ago. He MAKES the trip amazing beyond words. Right now the "scouts" are coming through and of course there will be streams of butterflies coming through here the last week of October. The indgienous people believe that this is the returning departed souls...........They're in the forests from November til March. Quite a phenomena! Well all of you let me know when you’re ready to go to the reserves. Chinqua is one of the 9 reserves and it is abeautiful three hour drive from San MIguel. It is an adventure to go. You leave here about 8AM, get there, get on the horses and ride up to 10,000 ft. Then you walk on this volcanic ask kind o fdirt and voila there are bazillions of butterflies EVERYWHERE! Bet time to go – enf of February when it has warmed up a bit and they are flying some…………..I have an extremely knowledgeable guide who is Mexican and who formed the Audubon Society here in San Miguel about 20 years ago. He MAKES the trip amazing beyond words.

Right now the “scouts” are coming through and of course there will be streams of butterflies coming through here the last week of October. The indgienous people believe that this is the returning departed souls………..They’re in the forests from November til March. Quite a phenomena!

]]> By: American Mommy in Mexico http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/09/20/fun-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 American Mommy in Mexico Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:12:16 +0000 http://www.countdowntomexico.com/?p=551#comment-1090 I too have a childhood memory of the butterflies coming through in TX. It was remarkable. I would love for my kids to see them here. I too have a childhood memory of the butterflies coming through in TX. It was remarkable. I would love for my kids to see them here.

]]> By: Steve Cotton http://www.countdowntomexico.com/2008/09/20/fun-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-1089 Steve Cotton Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:57:45 +0000 http://www.countdowntomexico.com/?p=551#comment-1089 To the best of my knowledge, I have never seen a monarch butterfly. Oregon is simply not on their path. But, like you, I want to see the butterfly reserve on one of my first outings in Mexico. I think I can do it as an overnight trip. To the best of my knowledge, I have never seen a monarch butterfly. Oregon is simply not on their path. But, like you, I want to see the butterfly reserve on one of my first outings in Mexico. I think I can do it as an overnight trip.

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