This may not come as news to many of you who know me, but I am highly susceptible to the travel bug… So, when I found out that I had the time to go to Mexico for a week this summer, and found a cheap flight, it was impossible for me to say no. My friend Christine also wanted to get out of Missoula for a while, so we decided to take a trip to Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara. We flew into Puerto Vallarta – via Seattle – and met up with my friend Choong Sil. We spent a day and a half hanging out on the beach and enjoying our vacation. It is the rainy season in Mexico and we ended up getting caught in some torrential downpours that left us seriously soaked. But, to me, that just added to the fun and adventure of the trip. What didn’t add to the fun of the trip was finding out Saturday morning that my passport had mysteriously “disappeared” from my hotel room the night before. Despite that, we continued on our trip to Guadalajara in order to see the old sights there and for me to go to the American Consulate. It was wonderful to go back to my church – Fuente de Vida – and see so many old friends and students:). Choong Sil and I then showed Christine around Guadalajara for the next couple days, and I spent some time getting a new passport. Our final day in Guadalajara we all rented a car and drove about three hours out to a village called Tapalpa which has a beautiful 105 meter waterfall down in a canyon on the outskirts of town. Everything was so green (much different than the normal tan colors) and it was a beautiful walk down to the falls. It was nice to show Christine something other than the tourist traps or cities in Mexico. But eventually Christine and I needed to get back to Puerto Vallarta to fly back to Missoula. It was a nice short trip, but I am also really glad to be back in Missoula – even if I seem to have brought the rain with me:).
