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[MixtecaMike]

Anybody seen a TV show (I think) called the Pilot Guide to Mexico City, made or associated or something with Lonely Planet? I don't know the details because I downloaded it, but it has to be the worst "guide" to Mexico City ever.

If it really is by Lonely Planet, I can only say that their books are crap, but their TV shows are pura m... I can't imagine anyone watching this and thinking "I must go there." How can they make such an interesting city look so dull and boring.

[lozwich]

Yeah, with that girl wandering through the markets in a sleeveless top and short shorts?

I saw it a few years ago. Interesting camera work (as an ex-multimedia bod) but that's about it. But then, have you ever read a Lonely Planet??? double

[skratchmer]

Does anyone have any suggestions of a travel book or tv program that does do Mexico City justice??

I would like to take the bus there from Puerto Vallarta, but I have no idea where I would start in a city that size.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Sherri

[lozwich]

The Lonely Planet is ok, but take a lot of what it says with a grain of salt. They do have some good hotel and hostel entries. There are also pretty good tourist information booths around the Zocalo, and I think they speak English, if your Spanish isn't up to it.

Good luck, and have fun!
Lozwich

[richtx1]

[isabel]

The best thing about the show, which I recently downloaded and watched, is that the woman stays in the room at the Isabel where I stayed for months a few years ago. That was a rush, I really wanted to head back there from Korea when I saw that.

Oh, I so miss Mexico.

[lozwich]

[isabel]

[MixtecaMike]

I too am in the Land of the Morning Calm, I don't have a nice university job but I do manage to send over US1000 a month back home, which keeps the family living in a style better than what we woz accustomed to, plus saving some up so I won't be dependent on the rather sorry salaries back in LatAm. I work a 40 hour week (30 classes =2 hour prep-time) and get almost sweet nothing in vacation time, but it's a job for a year or so, not a life-time of servitude.

If all goes according to plan I might actually be paying those pittances, instead of earning them, LOL.

My other plan is to buy a used pickup and ferry people from town to town after the last bus has left.

Loz, not sure if you were at "you know where" when there was an elder woman who had worked and saved in Japan, it meant she was able to get a lower-paying job she liked better (I think) in Oaxaca City and supplemented it with her savings.

The lifestyle here is very different, but it's not at all unpleasant.

[lozwich]

Thanks for that.. Isabel I'm 35 and living in Spain, but I'm thinking of Japan in the near future. Basically, my 'nest egg' is an apartment in Australia, and the whole time I was in Mexico (my first year being a landlord) I was terrified that something would go wrong with it, and I wouldn't have any money to send home.

For this reason, I want to save up a beepload of money, get a bit ahead on my mortgage, and then go and live in Mexico without having to worry. If I live in Japan for 2 years, I'll also be able to do a Masters (thinking Language and Literacy at the moment), which should get me a better job in Mexico, regardless of my age.

What do you think? Its good to know (and I mean this with the utmost respect) that there are people older than me doing the same thing - makes me feel like I'm not barking up the wrong tree. Its also good to know that life is bearable outside Mexico. To put it mildly, I haven't had the best time in Spain this last academic year.

And, no, Mike, I don't know who you're talking about: have you taken your Alzheimers medicine today??

Thanks again,
Lozwich.