La Realidad (the reality) is a famous Zapatista pueblo about an hour camioneta ride from Guadalupe, my last stop. Learning from my previous experience in Guadalupe, as soon as I arrived into town, I immediately went to look for someone to get approval to stay in the pueblo and help out with any work that needed to be done. I was eventually led to a small wooden house where I met with a guy who was volunteering to check visitor information etc. He asked me for my passport and wrote down my info and asked me why I wanted to stay in town. I responded that I had been traveling through Mexico for over one month and that I loved his country's warm people, natural beauty, tranquillo (laid back) lifestyle and mouth watering food but now
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