Though the Worldwide Economic Crisis seems to have the world in a tizzy of worry and despair, Gringos are still coming to Mexico I remember last year at this time unprecedented numbers of Gringos were walking the streets of my adopted Mexican home of Guanajuato

From my vantage point I could see everything Sitting in a small sidewalk café with the very original name, El Café (The Café), I was working on my third cup of Nescafe while watching Mexicans walking by like someone was chasing them

Arriving at Guanajuato's Templo de la Compañía is always a strange experience It's a church connected to the former Jesuit seminary, which is now the University of Guanajuato

In the middle of the night when the bombing (Day of the Dead fireworks) began and I was startled awake by my three-foot, straight-up jump out of bed, I suddenly remembered I had forgotten to write my annual article about this year's Guanajuato Tourist Season In case you don't know, I have been writing a special-interest article each year about the Gringo Invasion of Guanajuato

I've come to believe in recent years that living in Mexico , and for a variety of reasons, is as close as you can get to living in The Twilight Zone The reasons for this are not all Mexican, I have to say from the beginning