SPCA Puerto Vallarta needs urgent help!

This is the notice posted on the SPCA PV Facebook page. If you're in the area please help.

We must evacuate the sanctuary!!!

With the arrival of Patricia, it is expected to flood in the area where our sanctuary is located.

We will begin evacuating at 8 a.m. tomorrow (Friday) morning.  We have 85 dogs PLUS cats.

We need volunteers with vans or trucks.  Even smaller cars can help too.

Please let us know if you can help and please pass the word.  Also need volunteers to help moving the dogs from the sanctuary to trucks.  They will all be placed in boarding kennels. 

Contact us at spcapv@gmail.com.

Hurricane Patricia

My thoughts and prayers are with everyone on the Pacific coast of Mexico right now. Category 5 Hurricane Patricia is expected to hit the area sometime tomorrow. I have many friends in Puerto Vallarta, Barra de Navidad and Melaque that I'm worried about. The hurricane is expected to cause excessive rainfall, destructive winds, flash floods and landslides. I hope everyone gets through it safely.

Stuff to do

There is always so much to do before I leave.

Here's what I need to do today...

- Get a haircut (Don't worry it's just a trim. Not short like last time. Although it was easy to do my hair every day when I barely had any lol)

Me and my cool carefree hair on Isla Mujeres

- Clean out my car (Who knows what's lurking under my seats.)

- Order pesos from the bank (I should of done this days ago! The bank doesn't have any Mexican pesos on hand. They have to order them in.)

- Get my motorcycle helmet from the storage locker (Road trip. So excited!)

- Weigh my suitcases (Hopefully I kept them each below 50 lbs. I always bring too much.)

- Call my cellphone company (I need to put my account on a seasonal hold. It's $15 a month. That way I don't lose my phone number.)

- Install games on my new iPad. (I need something to keep me busy while I travel.)

- Buy an umbrella (Last year I got soaked in Puerto Vallarta because I didn't have one. This year I will be prepared!)

After a soggy night in PV (Look I still had hair then lol)

So that's my list for today. I'd better get off my computer and start working it. :)

Packing, packing, packing

And the packing process has begun. Well in my case, it's the trying to cram a whole bunch of stuff I won't use into a suitcase process. Haha. Yes it's true that I could probably survive with a couple of t-shirts, shorts, a bathing suit and pair of flip flops. But hey you never know when I'll need 8 pairs of shoes. ;)

Is it November 1st yet?

I'm excited to announce I'll be back in Mexico on November 1st. I'm planning on staying in Melaque for the winter, but as usual I'll probably venture out to explore other towns. If you follow my blog you'll know I'm known to leave on a whim for new adventures. Since being diagnosed with Chiari Malformation, my motto has become 'If something sounds fun, do it!'. I try not to do anything too risky. Well, except the time in Puerto Morelos when I paid extra at the Crococun Zoo to walked into a pit of crocodiles...