Holiday Inn Centro Historico Veracruz

... a smile!

Possible Obstacles: My own attitude, negativity, resistance

Act 2: Talking to 10 strangers Each Day (Having completed Act 1)

What I Need: Courage, a positive attitude, an ice breaker

Possible Obstacles: Resistance, no response

Act 3: Chain Reaction: An Action That Will Inspire Others to Respond in a Similar Way to Someone Else (Having completed Act 2)

What I Need: A thought-provoking action resulting in positive thinking and courage ...

... of 6 months of travel. I think I could do that :) 

Gil is a television producer and has his own television show called "Escapate con Gil" which means "Get Away with Gil" in English. His program displays the many wonderful places to visit in Veracruz. It was such a coincidence to meet him because a few days ago, another UWP alumni, Mark Miller, commented on my travel blog and how much he enjoyed reading it (Thanks, Mark!), He then passed along my link to his friend, Gil! Gil ...

... morning we pass a bakery for some fresh home made cookies, and I feel I finally have my Christmas cookies! Speeding up and trying to get back to the state of Colima as well as the same named town, Jason passes a car at a continuous line (like we normally do with 18-wheelers in front of us) and of course a transito stands right at the tope waiting for us and having a big smile on his face. We pull over and talk to that inexperienced officer who tells us at first that we have to pay a fine ...

... the steep hills of the village, I could not find one decent viewpoint - the only thing I got a good view of was the flasher who popped out of the bushes surrounding the municipal football pitch when I went there for an uninterrupted, though long, shot of the volcano. He was still lurking there with his pants down as I waited for the bus out of there - sadly, the police never happened by, in all that long wait. Comala was disappointing too - a pretty enough ...

... contact with his fin and broke the fin and broke the plug in his board leaving him a bunged up board and foot. Thanks to the shaper it was back to normal and good to go for the next day except Josh did not heal as fast and was done for a couple of days. Along with the good surf we had some good company as well. We met some very nice sisters from the tecoman congregation, Connie,Arcadia,Chely, and ...

We met Meric, who had driven down from Arizona and came into our lives at the entrance to the Magic Beach. Meric is one of us, on the same wave length, leaving the US for the same reasons and not to return.  his destination is the same as ours: Buenos Aires.  It was a beautiful thing ...

... Months --------------------------------------- ------------------------------- Colima No. 11 of 23 Destinations (this is not a ranking) State: Colima (state and city have the same name) Population: 127,000 --------------------------------------- -------------------------------- Colima - La Ciuadad de Las Palmeras Ok, so you don't like the beach - Barra de Navidad/Melaque - and you don't like the big city - Manzanilla. Your cup of tea is a green, classy ...

... try to see them. It was just too cloudy to see anything, so we headed back thwarted. The highlight of our trip to Colima then was the little boy singing his heart out for the customers having breakfast on the plaza, for tips. Look out for him on Latin American Idol!

... or at least a profession that will be easy to get once Im in Japan. Sooooooo, teaching English to the/a student/s is one option. I decided to search all the possible ways that Mexico offers in order to be taught the basic styles of teaching ,etc. I found this teachers course in Jalapa & they gave me the chance to join them when they had already started. Yes folks they accepted me in the course & off we (my mother and I ) went on Sat. (4 of Nov) It ...

... of fun! Then we returned the hotel, and got ready, and then we went to a Seafood Place. What an experience! I figured I would try out an appetizer... so I picked out something on the menu that said Crab. I thought it was going to be Crab meat, but it came out and it looked like something like pulled pork (as the crab) in some kind of saucy/juice with green olives, onions and tomatoes. It was okay, but definitely not my favorite! Then for my main meal, I thought I ordered Chile ...