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 | In Mexico, on the Lam With Ken Kesey...destination, one gem in the resort strand of Mexico s Pacific coast, cousin to Acapulco...ll beat you in the end then slips into Mexico in a car trunk. The headline: LSD GURU...in rural Oregon in 2001. I flew into Mexico at the end of August, a late arrival... March 23, 2008 - - Travel |
TAKING A, WELL, TRIP TO MEXICO
HOW TO GET THERE
Several airlines serve Manzanillo, but the cheapest and most direct for me, from New York, was Continental via Houston. (Other carriers often connect to a Mexican airline in Mexico.) Flights in mid-April were available on www.continental.com for about $535.
TAKE THESE BOOKS
“The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test,” by Tom Wolfe, is still the indispensable guide to Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. Mr. Wolfe was on the trail of “Young Novelist Real-Life Fugitive” for Esquire, but Kesey had returned from Mexico by the time Mr. Wolfe tracked him down. The Manzanillo section, recreated through interviews, is powerful: “Stranded in a up-tight town; no roads leading north and
no roads leading south; nine or ten hours of hell by bus to Guadalajara the only way to git back to the rest of the world. ...”
“Kesey’s Garage Sale,” a deeply strange 1973 book by Kesey and others, has a section about called “Over the Border.” It’s a hallucinatory memoir in screenplay form, with the names changed: Kesey is Devlin Deboree and Manzanillo is Puerto Sancto. But it’s all in there, the Casa Purina, the hammocks, waves and roaches (insects), the zonked-out conversations, the amazing tales of survival and resilience while stoned. And unlike “Acid Test,” it has doodly drawings in the margins. Try Amazon.
“Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties” is Robert Stone’s memoir, and its Manzanillo section is burnished by wisdom, distance and lovely writing. “We were an unstable gathering, difficult to define,” he writes. Their landlord called them “existencialistas,” but Mr. Stone says they were more like “a cross between a Stanford fraternity party and an underfunded libertine writers’ conference.”
“Innkeeper” is the self-published autobiography of Bart Varelmann, who bought the hurricane-damaged Hotel La Posada in Manzanillo in 1960 and ran it for decades. Mr. Varelmann’s life has apparently been so eventful that Kesey has to fight for attention with Bing Crosby, Bo Derek, Lee Marvin, a sunken treasure ship, hurricanes and lots and lots of adoring women. Go to www.manzanillo-innkeeper.com.
“Manzanillo and the State of Colima: Facts, Tips and Day Trips,” by Susan Dearing, an sunbaked expatriate American who runs a Manzanillo dive shop, tells you everything you need to know about where to go, eat, stay and play in and around her adopted city. A spiral-bound necessity available through her information-packed Web site, www.gomanzanillo.com.
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U. S. group most likely to commit suicide: white men over 65 - 29.0 per 100,000
The cities with the highest suicide rates
March 22, 2008 - 1:33PM
The 10 highest big-city suicide rates in the U.S. in 2004 (per 100,000 residents)
Las Vegas, Nev. -- 34.5
Colorado Springs - 26.1
Tucson, Ariz. - 25
Sacramento, Calif. - 22.7
Albuquerque - 21
Mesa, Ariz. - 19.6
Miami, Fla. - 17.1
Denver - 16.2
Jacksonville, Fla. - 15.6
Pittsburgh, Pa. - 15.2
Source: Big Cities Health Inventory: The Health of Urban America, 2007
