CERVANTINO 2013,and where it all started

Ever since I returned from the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon in 2012 I have been wanting to start a blog about...well Mexico, and also running. But being the slug that I am I just kept putting it off, and putting it off. Then about a month before this year’s 41st Festival International Cervantino I got an email from my good friends Ethan and Anne-Marie Summers who live in Guanajuato Mexico, telling me that the house that they have been refurbishing for the last three years was about ready to go on the rental market, and that’s when I decided to head down to Guanajuato Mexico. 

I have been telling my friends, and anyone else who would listen to me, about Cervantino, and showing them pictures of the beautiful city of Guanajuato for years now, but could not raise any interest in checking it out. Mi Novia Margarita has been telling me over and over again that if I want to get people to travel with me down to Mexico that I need to plan months in advance. Did I listen. NO.

Plaza de San Fernando

 At this point I need to explain that my mode of travel is to plan very little. I can launch off into parts unknown with only the faintest idea of what I’m getting myself into and be pretty comfortable with it. This method of operation has seen me to the volcanoes outside of Mexico city. To a couple of months of white water raft guiding on the Rio Copalita in the state of Oaxaca. And most recently to the 2012 Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon. 

With just weeks to go till Cervantino I sent an email out to about twenty people inviting them to join me. Mostly there was no answer. There were a few how about next year answers. And one most definitely I will go next year...thanks Alan!

When I voiced my disappointment Margarita took me up with that look, put on her sharpest toed boots, and gave me a kick. “You need to plan!!! People aren’t like you, they need information. They need time to organize their schedules.” Okay, okay I get it now.

So here I am at Ethan and Anne-Marie’s house in Guanajuato. Cervantino is over, the crowds have gone home, and the city is back to it’s normal low roar. In the days, weeks, or hours to follow, I'll post more information about this wonderful city, and the over the top event that Cervantino is.