Crazies galore: Watching half the Locos parade … until the very end

Published June 20, 2022

by Robert J. Hawkins

That’s true. I only saw half the Crazies parade this morning in San Miguel de Allende.

The upper half.

Even at 6-foot-2 I wasn’t tall enough, or close enough to watch the Dia de Los Locos parade with such an unobstructed view. Man, there were a lot of people out there, and they got to the curb long before I did. What’s fair is fair.

Therefore, you may notice that many of my photographs are filtered through a variety of hairstyles, various hats, the occasional waving hands and fingers, hands holding iPhones in front of my iPhone, and the odd umbrella.

The alternative would have been to elbow my way past small children, short old ladies, and innocent families in order to gain a front-row seat on the thousands of people parading down the Ancha in costume.

Well, I’m just not that sort of guy. Which may be why I’ve never had Covid. I don’t do well in crowds. Never did. Long before crowds became superspreaders. And this one was about as tightly packed as you could ever imagine.It was chaos in a delightfully linear sort of way. A river nearly overflowing its banks and the banks crash in on the river, sending all that energy hurtling downstream. In the spirit of the whole thing, I shall present to you photographs in as chaotic a manner as possible. Run with it. Enjoy it. Cheer for your favorite costumes and watch out for flying candy.

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