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We are not on the map!

Posted by Anne T. Email User on January 27, 2017, 11:33 pm

This map is from the 21st edition of the Guia Roji road atlas of Mexico.
Can you see? We are not on it! There are a few theories about this: (1) someone in La Manzanilla did not pay the fee to be included In the atlas, or (2) someone paid for us NOT to be on the map or (3) (my favorite theory) this magical wonderful town is ..... not really here! We are all in a dream!
(4) another theory is that the person who is responsible for this page of the atlas LIVES here, and didn't want anyone else to know about it (kind of the same as theory #2. )
Any more ideas? Note that Boca IS on the map, so it's not about size!
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Judy Dykstra-Brown Email User on January 28, 2017, 12:15 am, in reply to "We are not on the map! "

Perhaps we are the Mexican Brigadoon and only appear on the map every 100 years. Have you noticed you are aging more slowly here?
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Duckie Hoomever Email User on January 28, 2017, 2:32 am, in reply to "We are not on the map! "

I love this. Maybe we could crowdsource a screenplay from the local writers in LM from this. My pitch:
Present day. A young woman is driving down highway 200, having left her abusive husband in PV. Her young daughter is with her. There is some event - meteor, eclipse, violent thunderstorm - happening. She's nearly outta gas, and she sees the sign for LM. (We'll learn soon that the sign, the turn-off, the town disappear later.) She turns off, drives a few hundred yards, and her car dies. An old man walks up to her. He welcomes her, saying he/they expected her and her daughter. He says he will take her into town. Perhaps he has a burro, or a burro and a wagon. And then?

Apologies if this seems wacko.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Bill P on January 28, 2017, 7:11 am, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Duckie. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next!
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Judy Dykstra-Brown Email User on January 28, 2017, 8:34 am, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Re: La Manzadoon. I think Duckie's waiting for us to suggest the next bend of plot, Bill. If it is a modern day remake of Lost Horizon or Brigadoon, set in La Manz,, it needs to include crocs, the lagoon, Palapa Joe's ( where there is only a Friday night with the Lounge Lizards every 100 years ), Daniel could be the high lama. The tequila supply would last forever because there would be only one sunset every 100 years.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Daniel H Email User on January 28, 2017, 9:44 am, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

High Llama
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Monte H Morgan Email User on January 28, 2017, 10:31 am, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

"we are all here because we are not all there"
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Daniel H on January 28, 2017, 11:36 am, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Don't put off till tomorrow what you can put off today
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Larry F on January 28, 2017, 1:06 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

I did put it off until tomorrow but when tomorrow came I couldn't remember what I had put off. It never got done, but then why would I care. Nothing in my life changed because of it.p
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Carol Lopez Email User on January 28, 2017, 1:27 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Thanks, all!

Very welcome comedy break, this time of year,
and with all that's going on in parts of the world that did get onto the map.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Mayama Email User on January 28, 2017, 2:27 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

As a Boca de Iguanas winter resident(snow bird)it seems a mystery why Boca is on the map and not La Manzanilla, although we have noted this in earlier editions of The Map. What kind of tourist designation is Boca? We like the tranquility and free ranging animals.
This thread really affirms that there is lots of humor and great imagination here. Thank you all-I had lots of laughs.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Judy D-B on January 28, 2017, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

The high llama looks like he is set to get his tooth pulled, but I imagine any town small enough to not be on the top must not have a dentist. Guess he'll have to go to Boca to get that string pulled. Do you have door knobs in Boca? I also see how easily Daniel shirked his role as high lama! I think being expunged from the map is a sign from the powers in the universe that we should stop advertising the charm of this place to our friends elsewhere. No one gets to pitch until someone else leaves by choice or by chance. Then there should be a lottery to see who gets to recruit a friend. Seems just right now to me--so long as I'm counted as a denizen.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Rob Boyes Email User on January 28, 2017, 2:35 pm, in reply to "We are not on the map! "

On Maui, Hawaii, There is a bay that the local surfers like to hang out. To discourage "haoles" (gringos) , they named it Shark Pit. This type of thinking could come in handy for the story.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Monte H Morgan Email User on January 28, 2017, 7:17 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Senor Boyes, I like it! Let's start now! My initial suggestion is STING RAY BAY.
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Norma Email User on January 28, 2017, 8:53 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

I recall driving down in 2001 and running very low on daylight and gas at the military checkpoint at Tomatlan. When the commander pointed to the sign "No drogas, no revolvers", I repeated the words and added "No gas" and then asked "Hay gas?" At which point the commander puffed himself up and scowled "Es Militaria!". The other soldiers found it amusing! We are so lucky to share in this enchanted community of lovely Mexicans!
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Jean Email User on January 28, 2017, 8:55 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

So.... Why/how are there so many people here??
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Judy D-B on January 28, 2017, 10:10 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Or Cocodrillo Cove!!!
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Barbara Email User on January 29, 2017, 12:25 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Two weeks ago I was informed by my niece who wants to come join us, she said that La Manzanilla is not in the Lonley Planet book.
Barbara
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Re: We are not on the map!

Posted by Jo Anna Email User on January 29, 2017, 12:55 pm, in reply to "Re: We are not on the map! "

Hooray for NOT being in The Lonely Planet!
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