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Title: Tom 007's Mexico Trip Came to An End Today - No Morw Money, Mexico Got It All
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Published: Mar 24, 2010
Author: t
Post Date: 2010-03-24 23:15:08 by tom007
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Back home in the snow. 
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#2. To: tom007 (#0)
Oh, please, you probably spent $56.34 for your trip.....
#5. To: X-15 (#2)
I was going to say I'll never know how much the whole thing cost, but just now realized I can nail it very closely, because of your comment. For the first time (been Mexico traveling for sixteen years) we took nearly no USD's, and used ATM's, like most people have gotten around to doing. So by going online, I will be able to see pretty exactly how much I depleted the account. Did spend a lot more than Sue and I would have normally, but we were entertaining my Cousin for nine days (he only eats at fancy places, three times a day) and the two friends came down for another ten days or so, and it made for more fun and more expense. It became obvious that one could live quite well for very little in Colima, Ixtlahuacan, Ajijic, Chapala and esp. Guadalahara, as prices were so compeative there. For instance in Tlaxquepacque we had the greatest drink for eight pesos,$0.64. It was thick and green, made of blended and strained cilantro, celery and pineapple. An amazing blend, I recommended all try it at home, as we will be. So this trip we spent $$ pretty freely, as I may have been a bit too tight in the past, so offhand, not including plane fare, which was about seven hundred, I guess we blew about $3000, or somewhere around $95USD/day. In a way, less, as we had our son have a root canal done here for $200 USD and a gold crown for $560, and Sue and I had two most excellent teeth cleanings for $24 USD each, (not included in the above costs) so you could realistically deduct from the cost of the trip the $1000 or so price differential of doing this in the US. Puts it about at about $64USD/day. Our cheapest hotel room was in Colima, and was just fine, cost $220 MP, or $20USD. Most expensive was $700MP, $56, but was at a friqqing palace off the main historical plaza in Guadlahara with a rose filled balcony over the main calle. The hotel in Ajijic was $600 ($48 USD) but came to become a ranch in Ixtlahuacan with a Chevy Blazer included, so that was a super deal, as we had a real National Geographic exploration experience visiting Canada, an end of the dirt road village having a festival. Tequlia, beer, tripe stew and and bunch of fried up cow noses, or something similar was all part of it. There were problems, natch, but it was a fairly great vacation for a reasonable amount of dough. Sue and I both commented on how inexpensively Mexico could be done if you knew just some of the tricks, but that is not always easy. For example yesterday afternoon when our five star bus arrived in Vallarta from GUD, we were tempted to take a taxi, for $26USD, to the old city, where we know the hotels. Instead, we solidered out to the feeder road, five minute walk, not pleasent when wheeling our baggage through the road, but in a few minutes here comes the village idiot bus that we got on for $1.30. Took a bit longer than the taxi, but we saw an interesting part of the city. Made getting the nice shrimp diablo dinner that night just a little more enjoyable. Hard to believe that last night Sue and I were sipping Bloody Ceasars on the warm shores of Bahia de Banderas. For 2.80 each, and the white table service was excellent as was the salsa and tapitios (chips). Well. gotta go fill the snowblower with gas.
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