Things are shaping up before our trip...

It's about three weeks till we leave for four to five months. The most difficult thing to do when we leave is finding house and petsitters and also someone who can fill orders for our small publishing company while we are out of the country. Wonderfully we've found a man who can do it all. He shares Kelly's passion for natural building, loves dogs and cats, and is very comfortable with computers and ecommerce. He needed a better place to live, so he is as delighted as we are with the situation.

With that settled, I've been feeling much more relaxed about everything else working out. And it has been. On other trips, I've had problems with feeling scared (make that terrified) in Mexican traffic, and this week I had a session with a local psychologist, using a very interesting technique called EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) or energy tapping. In less than an hour, my stress level about Mexican traffic dropped from quite high to barely there. Will this hold up once we get there? Wait and see, but I learned how to do this process for myself so I can do it as needed. Here's one website about EFT. I plan to experiment with it quite a lot more.

Another exciting thing, more directly related to Mexico, is that I've been emailing with a woman who has relatives in the Huastecan region of Mexico, not far from southern Texas. Kelly is giving a talk on natural building at an energy conference in San Antonio, so we will just be heading south from there. We already have an invitation from this woman's relatives to park our motorhome at their place! The Huasteca is a region of lush greenery, waterfalls, swimming holes, much music, and native peoples. Hmm, wonder if we'll even get beyond that area. It's a wonderful feeling to have no committments once we get to Mexico.

Doors are opening! And I'd better get back to the endless details...

Rosana