Isn’t En el Muelle de San Blas a sad story?

During the first week of getting to know each other, Jose Manuel and Sabah went to a coffee shop, a vegan café owned by a friend of Jose Manuel. Sadly, it is no longer there, but the memory lives on.

This song came on during their chat, and Sabah was immediately drawn to it. Jose Manuel briefly acknowledged that he knew the song. For whatever reason, Sabah had to figure it out and listen to it again. The following week, Sabah was listening to it on repeat, multiple times a day.

About six months later, in casual conversation, Jose Manuel mentioned that he had sung this song to his classmates as a teenager, as part of a school assignment and of his own interest and choosing. By this point, Sabah's Spanish had become quite good. It was then that Sabah really took the time to understand the story behind the song.

It's a true story from the 1970s about a woman who fell in love with a fisherman. Days before their scheduled wedding, the man went out to sea on a fishing trip and never returned. It was presumed he was lost forever in a storm. The woman spent more than 40 years going to the pier in San Blas, Nayarit, often wearing an old or makeshift wedding dress, waiting for his return.

Those who know Sabah know that she has always loved the ocean, and those who know Jose Manuel know that he has always loved fishing. Both sides know that Sabah and Jose Manuel are passionate about adventure, with an endless curiosity for learning about everything that surrounds them.

They are both the fisherman, returning to the woman after a long time away at sea, fighting the storm to bring home the rainbow trout they caught. One from each side of the world.