Driving to Mexico and Bringing a Car: The Plan and the Reality
This essay has to do with driving a car to Mexico, what kind of car can be imported to Mexico, getting a permanent resident visa, and safety tips for driving to Mexico, or The best-laid plans of mice and men/Often go awry (Robert Burns, 1785), in seven parts. Part One: Intention to Drive, March 17, […]
Want to Live in Mexico? Advice from a Wisecracker!
Nobody Knows the Spanish I Speak is a zany memoir by Mark Saunders (Fuze Publishing, LLC, McLean, VA, ISBN 978-0-9841412-8-9), who, with his wife Arlene Krasner, moved to San Miguel de Allende (SMA) shortly after falling in love with the place. The book’s tag line is “Drop out. Sell everything. Move to Mexico. Sounded like a […]
Norma Hawthorne’s 9 Tips for Living in Mexico Successfully (Mas o Menos)
Norma Hawthorne’s 9 Tips for Living in Mexico Successfully (choose your own priority order): Speak the language. Learn to speak the language. Try to learn to speak the language. Keep trying. Hire a tutor. Take a class. Don’t give up and expect Spanish-speakers to understand you! Otherwise, you will stay isolated within the gringo community. […]
Casita Colibri Gives Shannon Pixley Sheppard a Birdseye View of Oaxaca
About Shannon Pixley Sheppard and how she came to Oaxaca starts here at the beginning of this sentence (click “About”). If you want to read about how an ex-pat from the San Francisco Bay Area took a leap forward, retired early, and settled in Oaxaca, read on. You may even want to subscribe! Those of […]