Taxis, Cancun For those who don't live here, and might like to know, I suppose I would be remiss not to mention one extremely nice thing about...
Taxi drivers It's easy to picture what you described, there, Life. The taxi drivers in the HZ are more practiced at jacking up the prices, as are...
So much can be replaced more cheaply than it can be shipped that giving thought- reserving shipping for the truly expensive items (replacement...
That's awfully nice, well done, both of you! V.
Anybody have a sense of where the various, official taxi zone boundaries are located (those points at which the fare changes)? For example,...
Your health insurance It's annual renewal time on my personal health insurance plan. Living abroad, where health care costs are often many times...
Opps, they did it again Well, ToriB, you got your revenge, didn't you, and I didn't have to see you throw up. The Cowboys looked really bad,...
Opps, they did it again Well, ToriB, you got your revenge, didn't you, and I didn't have to watch you throw up. The Cowboys looked really...
Anybody make any New Year's Resolutions? I decided not to (though there may be others who can see some I should have made: I'm sure my wife could...
By the way, Kathy, it's a great story, and I'm glad you shared it with us. We can easily see ourselves feeling as you did- somehow expecting...
Living in foreign countries, I've gone wrong more often when I suspected people were acting out of bad motives; so, I try not to be guilty of...
Hi, CC. Glad your son had a chance to get innoculated. It seems more likely to have been someone from the Public Health Dept than from IMSS that...
The Centers for Disease Control in the U.S. have reported that one in five persons living in the U.S. have now had the H1N1 vaccine, and the...
Not at all, Coby, I'm glad you dug that up, and aren't crazy. It seems pretty clear, and appears to make sense of some of the situations you...
Letter requesting imss inscription Several posters asked me to share the letter, requesting inscription into the IMSS system. I've been told this...
It's not that bad- high temps for the next five days are predicted to be 26-29 C. (78-84 F.). As I write, early morning, it's clear and sunny, but...
Thank you, CC, for that piece of information. If I weren't working, today, I'd have been happy to join in. I'm looking forward to hearing from...
Thanks for the suggestions, everybody. Rawkus, there seem to be five of them left, as of yesterday, afternoon. Aside from these cats, there are no...
We got sensitized to the cost of electricity in Mexico by things we read on the internet before coming here. Our actual experience with it has...
We've been living here for almost ten months. Nothing has occurred to make us feel unsafe. No one has ever approached us in any way that seemed...