by Jim Krager, Dollar Vigilante:
The last couple of weeks here in San Miguel de Allende have been interesting. The 75 degree days and cool breezy nights in this magical high central desert city have been punctuated with various local festivals and visits from other Dollar Vigilantes, including Jonathan Lockwood, James Guzman and Tom Cloverton. We have all partied with Arnie Thexton, another resident of San Miguel who has modeled his life on Bob Dylan’s observation that “a man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Other than too much gin and not enough vermouth, these weeks have been rewarding and in deep contrast to the week before when my US bank held up a wire transfer for no good or apparent reason, and then required me to answer four questions they were provided in real time to which they could not have known the answers. I sense it was a not-so-subtle communication from the United States government letting me know they know where I am, what I am doing, and more importantly, private facts about me my family.
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