Pepe From Opodepe & The Progress of On The Border With Boze

 November 3, 2024

  Look who I ran into just across the border.

Daily Whip Out: "Pepe From Opodepe"

   Yes, full disclosure, my daughter participated in Hands Across the Border when she was in the sixth grade and a mountain village southeast of Magdalena, Sonora became our Cave Creek school's sister city. Me and a couple other fathers made the trip down and while there I visited a bacanora still up in the mountains and took this panoramic photo from the mountainside looking back down on the host town.

Looking Down On Opodepe, Sonora

   I later found a stash of old photographs from the area, and I am not positive, but this is an Opeodepe local, taken in the 1920s. He, in fact, could be the real Pepe from Opodepe.

Opodepe Guard

   Speaking of the divide between us and the divide between our two countries, I want to do a story about it. Here are a couple cover ideas.

Daily Whip Out: "The Divide"

Daily Whip Out: "The Divide 2"

Daily Whip Out: "The Divide 3" 

Bell De Jour

   She took what she could from her small town past and she left her mark on Mexico.

Daily Whip Out: "Salma 1"

Daily Whip Out: "Salma 2"

   As you may have guessed by now, I have a severe case of border on the brain syndrome. But then I am having an art show, On The Border With Boze next weekend at Patinas. So that's my excuse.

Daily Whip Out: "Old Vaquero #77"

"The end is the just the beginning of something new."

—Old Vaquero Saying