After spending the last month of my permitted stay in the U.S.A. on a road trip camping in the National Parks in California, I booked my flight 3 days before my visa expires and flew to the nearest place in Mexico from Los Angeles LAX. On July 1, 2014, I landed in Puerto Vallarta, on the Pacific Coast side of Mexico.
Having been on the road for over a month before I left for Mexico, I did not do much research or planning for my big planned-to-be one year travel towards the south of the americas. The only thing I did was to book a little private place for a week with internet, where I could rest up and do some research and figure out my next move. I ended up in an apartment in Bucerias for a week.
In the in-flight magazine on the 3-hour plane ride from LAX to Puerto Vallarta, I came across a page on a little surf town called Sayulita, and thought maybe I'll go check it out for a start if it's close enough. And it turned out it was about a 30-40 minutes bus ride from Bucerias, and I found a beginner's Spanish class to attend that was operating out of the Costa Verde International School in Sayulita. When I went to visit the school, I was happy to see that there is a Little Free Library outside the school, which reminds me of the Sivananda Yoga house I stayed at in Los Angeles. I begin to feel a good vibe about this.
I met Nancy the teacher, and the following week, I moved to Sayulita and to start one week of beginner's Spanish class with her.
Nancy (far right) is nice and fun to learn from, and I met nice classmates and made a few friends :)
My spanish at the end of the week was really very basic... but I begin to get into the sound of it. I was eager to learn more on the street.
My spanish at the end of the week was really very basic... but I begin to get into the sound of it. I was eager to learn more on the street.
