Pulling out all the stops to make one dog happy. But his hunger was beyond me. (10/12/23)

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My professional background is a PhD clinical psychologist (with 20 years of clinical practice) and Fortune 500 Organization Development management consultant (15 years).

I have a lot to say about a lot of topics, including
- policing in the US and Mexico
- personal safety in the US and Mexico
- poverty/homelessness/hunger
- the environment - and “the ongoing rape of Appalachia”
- immigration to the US and the condition of people at the Texas-Mexico border (where I spent 7/22-3/23)
- corporations and the business world in the US and Mexico
- US and Mexico politics and the interaction between the two countries
- Mexican personality and culture
- dogs in the US & Mexico
- animal rights
- the joys and benefits of travel
- life in a camper van (3 years and counting)
- personal growth
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(8/18/23)

After spending 8 months along the South Texas/Mexico border – ranging from South Padre Island to Brownsville to the Rio Grande Valley - I crossed into Mexico just west of Matamoros on March 13.

Since then I have traveled south along the Gulf Coast, entirely through areas that are not frequented by American or international tourists. Significant cities like Victoria, Tampico and Tuqspan seldom see Americans - and few residents in any of these areas speak much English.

When my camper van is ready to roll in a couple of weeks (around September 1) I will be going to Xalapa - a mountain city that is the capital of Vera Cruz State and apparently spectacular (“the Athens of Vera Cruz” because of all the culture, and “The City of Flowers”).

Right near it is an apparently fabulous indigenous mountain community named Xico - which is called “the nature jewel of Vera Cruz State”.

From there, my plan is to visit Puebla and the ancient pyramids near there.

Then on to an extended stay in Ciudad de Mexico/Mexico City.

Then probably several months in San Miguel de Allende, which one travel magazine recently called “the most beautiful city to visit in the world”.

My plan from there is to double back east through Vera Cruz and Merida - jumping-off point for exploring ancient pyramids.

My destination for two years has been the Mayan Riviera - and all the resorts out at the end of the Yucatán Peninsula on the Gulf Coast. I expect to have all kinds of fabulous adventures there.

If, as I have been visualizing for two years, I find somewhere out on the Mayan Riviera where I want to “settle” for a while - at least as the base of my travels - I have two products that I’m hoping to offer in person to travelers and others.

I have developed my own approach to personal/spiritual coaching which I used to call “Being With Majo” and have renamed “Estoy Aqui Para Usted” (“I’m here for you.”)

Here is a link to a YouTube video about that:

The second product that I hope to offer face-to-face is called “Being in the Water with Majo”. Getting people over 30 back in the water is a lot of fun.

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