Mexico

It was a wonderful experience to say the least…

We stayed in a very small town two hours outside Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco. This is the kind of place where all the people know each other by name, and who is related to whom. As soon as we arrived at the house where we stayed, neighbors began asking who we were and where do we come from? This is also the kind of place where men ride horses on the pebble-stone roads to get from one part of town to the another (loved to see that – soooo sexy, I so wanted to be taken for a ride, but women in Mexico don’t do that, but then again, I am from California!!!), and where on any given afternoon as you walk to the plaza for ice-cream or an afternoon treat everyone says “hello!” and “have a nice day”; people have time to sit and visit with each other. People may be poor, but they don’t know it, and so they are very happy (comes to mind something I once read, “The happiest people are not the ones who have a lot of money, but the ones who need the least”). The smell of wood burning in the afternoon will forever remind me of Mexico. I was born in Mexico City and moved to California when I was ten… so this was all so very new to me. I got to experience the real Mexico, its people, food, culture and passion and it was more wonderful than I could have ever expected. We were busy the entire time, waking at the crack of dawn by the sound of a rooster and on the go until way into the night, visiting other small town where we got to try different foods (Oh.. the food…!!! It was wonderful!! Best Mexican food EVERRRRR… everything is home-made. The meat, fresh from that morning, I could go on and on and on about the food… I probably put on 10 lbs. in the four days we were there, really!)

My spiritual experience is so intense and personal that is difficult to express, and I want to keep it private. What I can say is that I have never felt closer to God and more at peace than how I feel now.

I would like to report that I did not have one drop of tequila until the last day at the airport waiting for our flight back, however I did bring back a few bottles!!!