San Miguel de Allende

I didn't want to leave Puerto Morales.

I didn't want to leave San Miguel de Allende.

My wife was fed up with both places.

Well, we had to leave Puerto Morales because the baby's skin was sensitive to the virus.

And so we're driving around.

Well, we're out in the country.

We're driving the country roads and we're seeing how some real country Mexicans live, right? Because we've been living in cities, San Miguel de Allende, Cancun, Puerto Escondido.

Mexicans live the exact same as America, even though most Americans can't see that because the news is... perpetrated the fraud so fucking much on different countries but they look the exact same there's a middle class there's a low class there's a wealthy class right and so out in the country you're driving by the real fucking sheds you're driving by the shit and you're like these guys are living off grid this is real off grid and they all are growing their own food they have chickens they have right they're doing all their own shit and the house is just this little thing and you're like I probably have my a hundred dollars is they wish they had that.

But fresh off the plane, we made it to San Luis.

We made it to San Miguel Allende and I'm low key.

Sad that we're back.

Yeah, it was a good trip.

Currently, in the heart of Guanajuato, it's there.

So this is 40-minute drive from San Miguel de Allende, for those of you that have been to this part of the world.

And it's where mostly all the automotive and other industries have developed all the industrial hub to supply the United States.

So it's become part of the supply chain of many industries in the United States.

That gets our brain kind of able to kind of redirect.

What if he did accept my invitation? Like, what if I did a talk down in San Miguel de Allende? I was invited down there to do a talk.

And it was very interesting because I never had applied tiny shifts to this before, but it was for dating.

And so we had to talk about all the baggage that we kind of carry when you're meeting somebody new.

Today, after 30 plus year career in international marketing and sales, Roz has created a life filled with travel, curiosity, creativity.

and Adventure spends part of the year in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, discovered mixed media art after leaving corporate life, and eventually turned her lifelong passion for travel into another career as a pro-level travel advisor with Fora Travel.

But our conversation is more than where to go or how to plan a trip.

We talk about what travel can open up in us, new cultures, new relationships, new perspectives, and sometimes even new parts of ourselves.

So I was born and raised in the New York area, as you alluded to, and then went to school for six years in the Midwest.

before beginning a 30 plus year in international marketing and sales, mostly in kind of corporate America.

And then in a crazy effort to slide into retirement, I decided to dust off my undergraduate degree and and got recertified to teach Spanish, which I ended up doing in the Seattle area in middle school, which was by far and away the hardest job I've ever had, before retiring and moving to central Mexico, where I now spend about six months of the year when I'm not traveling, currently, which is in the town of San Miguel de Allende.

But when I first got to Mexico, which was essentially in 2019, I decided to take up mixed media art.

And Julia has such an interesting story.

She's based in both Asheville, North Carolina, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

She gets to call both places home.

And While that makes me insanely jealous, you know, I am very much looking forward to talking to her and discussing how both of those places and all the others that she's traveled through and lived in, you know, have influenced her songwriting and her music.

And so you mentioned that the song took you a couple of years to actually write and finish.

But how about the recording process? I also thought that was pretty interesting.

So you were in San Miguel de Allende, right? And then your band was in North Carolina.

So how did that whole process work out?

[laughs] After more than 30 years in international marketing and sales, Roz chose a different kind of next chapter.

She moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, discovered a passion for mixed media art, and turned travel into much more than a vacation.

Today she's a pro level travel advisor for Aura Travel, exploring the world through slow travel, art workshops, language schools, and experience that leave room for the unexpected.

And maybe there is a little connection to what we've been talking about today.