Hope and Change, the audacity to believe in one’s future! There are three ways to approach change… run from it… manage it or embrace risk or unknown. Avoidance is not a good choice because continual change is part of the universal order. Avoiding change is unnatural. ” Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no [...]
Doing Business in Mexico
November 24, 2011 By
Mexico is known for its breathtaking natural beauty, which makes it an ideal vacation destination. But Mexico also has a sophisticated culture with an amazingly advanced and complex economic system. The complexity of its system is what makes doing business there such a challenge. While on the surface doing business in Mexico may seem [...]
Drug Dog Search at Cancun Airport!
November 24, 2011 By
We got this seriously funny story from a friend of ours from Colorado who recently arrived for the Thanksgiving Holiday to their beautiful condo in Puerto Aventuras. They take drug smuggling serious in Mexico… Family and friends update and recap of Mark and Cindi’s Travel day from Denver to Cancun: We made it here, almost [...]
IS IT REALLY MOCTEZUMA THAT GETS REVENGE?
November 23, 2011 By
By Bob Brooke, One of the proverbial concerns of tourists traveling to Mexico is getting sick while on vacation. And they should be concerned, for 20 to 50 percent of travelers to Mexico get Moctezuma’s Revenge (MR), according to a recent study by the Office of Medical Applications of Research. The leading cause of discomfort, [...]
Can’t Afford to Retire in the U.S.? There is Always Panama
November 22, 2011 By
Bob Dennison wrote the following article after talking with Larry and Carol Denne about their decision to move to Panama to retire: Carol Denne and her husband Larry both worked government jobs for decades, but as they entered their late 50′s, Larry’s fast-shrinking 401(k) account and Carol’s modest pension pointed to one stark reality: Retiring with dignity in their [...]
Guadalajara…and Tlaquepaque
November 21, 2011 By
Two characters come to mind when I think back on our recent trip to Guadalajara. One was a slightly seedy, tequila-saturated old guy who hung around the stairwell in Guadalajara’s municipal palace, collecting tips for talking about the ceiling murals. I’ll call him Ramon. Ramon spoke eight languages, he claimed, although all I heard was [...]
Wisdom from Baja Herb on “How to Mexico”
November 13, 2011 By
I’m on oxygen 24/7 now so I gotta get this out. My name is Herb Thompson and I’m giving you this little late night sermon from a small town in Mexico. Doesn’t really matter where it is, could be most anywhere in the country. I have been happy here in Mexico for about ten years [...]
Finding a lost pet in Mexico
October 7, 2011 By
By: Melanie Lamaga Editors Note: This article was provided for us by Cedros Outdoor adventures, based on their personal experience. Cedros Outdoor does not provide assistance in pet locating. Nobody wants to lose a pet, much less while traveling. We recently lost our dog while hiking near our home in Ensenada. We searched for three heartbreaking [...]
Green Angels to the rescue
October 5, 2011 By
As many of you know we decided to re-locate to Ajijic from Tulum. Now the problem was figuring out how to get out stuff over there to our new house. When you’re moving over 1,200 miles and you don’t have enough for a moving company and you have way too much for our Honda [...]
My Lab loves Tulum and Mexico
September 28, 2011 By
My pets are as much a part of my family as my daughter that’s just the way we are. When we moved to Hawaii in the eighties we took our German Shepard, our 2 cats a Siamese and Calico and both of my parrots a African Grey and my Blue & Gold Macaw. There never [...]
Getting a Driver’s License for the First Time in Puerto Vallarta
September 24, 2011 By
By Liana Sazon’s I have been living here in Mexico for nearly 17 years now, and up until this time I had just renewed my Washington license when I was in Seattle. That was back in the good old days when I went every summer. The last time I was there I was going to [...]
Why I chose to move from Tulum to Ajijic
September 12, 2011 By
Some of my friends were shocked to say the least that I would give up the beautiful caribbean ocean for the central highlands of Mexico or more specifially the Lake Chapala area. We left Oregon in part because we never wanted to see snow again. We moved to Oregon from Hawaii and it was hard [...]
How I spent my summer in Todos Santos, Baja
September 12, 2011 By
In case you are interested here is my summer update Cloudy last 2 days again. I was thinking that this was the cloudiest summer I have been here for sure but it might be cloudier than all the others combined. Nice. Amazing cloud formations over the Sierras (de La Laguna). No hurricanes have come close [...]
