Wrapping Up My Entire Life In a Rucksack (Part 2) Six Months on

byTheCatherine

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3 years ago

Well, here I am in Mexico six months into becoming a digital nomad again.

What I have been doing for the last six months

1. Learning the language

2. Earned enough money to purchase a permanent residency, and it was confirmed this week I can have one, but I won't get it for at least five months

3. Lost 110lbs or 50 kilos. In effect, lost about 46 percent of my body weight. For those of you that wonder how I did that I eat a lot of raw food. It's not rocket science, I ate less carbohydrates apart from fruit and exercised more. I will eventually get my weight down to half of what it was, but the weight loss is slower now - and I look slim.

4.Writing a lot less than normal, some days nothing, this is my first blog here for six months, but my input has improved the last few weeks.

What I have learned

1. How very different Mexican Spanish is from Castillian Spanish, especially in Mayan areas.

2. It's tougher traveling on your own, but only when you are actually traveling. There is no one I can leave my rucksack with when I want the toilet, or a drink. It's tougher on your body traveling at nearly 70 than it was at nearly 50. It means I don't travel everyday. I stay at least three nights, and more often seven, it gives me recovery time

3. Other than the actual mechanics of traveling, it's no harder traveling alone, in fact it's often easier because there is no compromise. That doesn't mean I don't wish my husband was still alive and with me, although I am enough of a realist to know he would hate Mexico.

4. It's not lonely traveling alone, I am in Chiapas in the mountains in the middle of nowhere. The only person I speak to live is Rosa the owner of the local fruit shop. I do have Zoom sessions virtually everyday, and it has been my coaching that has paid the bills.

5. I have learned that on paper this is the last place I should be. San Cristobal is 8000 feet up and far too cold for me. It has never been warm enough to take my sweater off even though it is Summer. However, I appreciate the natural beauty of the area and I am very content. I am leaving at the end of August, because then it will really get cold. A good day the temperature climbs to 22 degrees. Having said that, the three months I have spent here have been idyllic, and in many ways I am sad I can't make my home here, as it is just too cold.

Future Plans

I am going to spend the winter on the Pacific coast. I haven't decided where yet,but possibly Puerto Escondido. If anyone has any suggestions, please comment below

Piccies of my Surroundings