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May's Mexican Roots
- May grew up in Manzanillo, a small port city in the state of Colima, Mexico. She moved around different cities growing up due to her father's hotel work.
- Manzanillo is a small Mexican Pacific port city with a lot of boat activity and tourism.
Jim's Minnesota Background
- Jim is from Rochester, Minnesota, a safe city known for the Mayo Clinic. The state of Minnesota features both large lakes and vast wilderness, with unique geography like the only natural lake in Olmsted County.
- He shared a local saying about Lake Superior: “The lake that never gives up its dead.”
How Jim and May Met
- Jim and May met on italki, an online language learning platform, in 2010. They first met in person in Guadalajara, Mexico, and traveled together before starting their project Spanish and Go.
- Their relationship grew despite being long-distance, motivated by their love of language, culture, and travel.