Hola from Yelapa Mexico,

I’m writing this, looking out over three hammocks, and the beautiful blue ocean. Part of the reason I’m writing this long-winded post, is to let you know why I haven’t finished updating the last three chapters of the e-book… I promise to do it soon.

Until then, here’s a quick tour of the beautiful little town Yelapa, on the west coast of Mexico, just south of Puerto Vallarta.

The main street, which isn’t really a street at all, more like a weaving path, sometimes with concrete and cobblestones, sometimes just mud and stones, is truly the main and only thoroughfare through town.

At its widest spots, you can use a four-wheel-drive ATV, something that sort of like a heavy-duty go-cart, but the most common travel is by foot or by burro. The burros seem to do most of the heavy lifting and transporting through town and up the narrow mountain trails… Yelapa is small it’s more like a village… not really sure what to call it.

Anyway, I’m sure that after a couple of weeks you get to know everybody, and everybody, for better or for worse gets to know you, because you pass them daily on the main street – path – trail… and you’re on foot.

I definitely enjoy the feel. The 15 minute walk to town, often takes two or three times as long because of the conversations you have the people along the way.

Yesterday we took a two hour trip (I’m here with my brother and mother… and soon my girlfriend will be flying in to join us) up the narrow jungle trail into the local rainforest to see some wonderful waterfalls.

About a half an hour out of town, we came across something that best could be called the shack. There was as many planks missing from the side of the building, as were in place. It truly looked like one strong wind would blow the whole thing over… and yet there in the middle of nowhere was the satellite dish. Ah yes, modern technology.

As we waalked deeper into the rain forest, it became very clear why it was called the RAIN forest… there was several times we retreated under the shelter of very large and twisting trees, staying relatively dry in the downpours.

We are here in February, which I’m guaranteed by the locals is the dry season, and so far. It’s rained almost every day so far… including one major tropical storm, which blew rain 20 feet into the living room, soaking furniture, beds, pretty much everything.

Oh yeah, there are no windows, and only very limited walls as protection against the storm… so when the winds started howling, it blew in one side out of house and out the other.

I don’t have the wrong about any of this, I’m not complaining… so far it’s felt like a grand adventure.

And it keeps getting better, after returning from the rain forest, we decide to go for a swim in the ocean. I was standing about knee deep in the gentle surf, when I looked down and noticed something undulating in the ways. As I watched more closely, I realized it was actually swimming. Than there was two of them, than three, than four…

Turns out that these creatures were a relative of moray eels, called Tiger Reef Eels. They look like and swimming snake, are about a foot and a half long and have beautiful pattern of black-and-white, but i must say, I was a little intimidating by the idea of swimming with them, since it first, I thought they might be sea snakes.

Well after my non-swim with the eels. I decided to keep my commit and finish working on my e-book – STOP… In The Name of Love. This meant dealing with the local technology problems.

which, by the way, wasn’t doing so well since the rain took down the local wireless Internet connection… for about a day and a half… when they finally got that fixed.

Caroline, who manages the place we’re staying, let me know that I better come check my e-mails while had a chance.

I headed over to the main house where everything’s set up, got my laptop computer going and found out that I have about 473 e-mails in my inbox that wanted to my attention… before I could do anything about it, we had a electrical blackout.

That lasted the next three hours. So by the time we got electricity again I was in the middle of a card game… and so I’ve put off checking my e-mail until this morning.

Oh yeah, at that point there over 610 that need my attention… and I’m thinking of heading off to town for breakfast… instead.

I think this is probably the longest excuse letter I’ve ever written so far… Welcome to Mexico.

With passion, purpose and possibility,

Paul Sterling
Your Relationship Coach

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