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The Road from Puebla to Cordoba, Mexico: Otherworldly Canyons, Meeting Celebrities, and the Cordoba Gift Exchange

Jet Metier at HB hotel in Cordoba, MexicoGiven that our planned drive from Puebla to Orizaba was only a little more than three hours, that our combination Puebla hotel / restaurant / fraccionamiento was so pleasant, and that the restaurant had an all you can eat Mexican buffet breakfast, we saw no compelling reason to refuse the beautifully arranged food we found so temptingly arranged before us.   Even in this upscale restaurant with impeccable service and sophisticated ambiance, they allowed us to dine...

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How to Combine Your Luck of Not Being Born South of the Border with Something Else

Two NOTB expats living in Mexico – Best Places In The World To Retire – International LivingSome things in life we earn, and others, we don’t.
 
We use many names to describe the things that happen to us that we don’t earn, including “fate,” “destiny,” “God’s will”, “luck,” and my personal favorite: “dumb luck.”
 
After reading more than 9,500 answers to questions and 300 stories of more than 600 expats in Mexico, Panama, Nicaragua and Belize about their life abroad and now having traveled through...

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Two House Rentals Gone Wrong, and a Guardian Angel

Rental rejects graphicNow that it’s over, I can tell you about it.
 
So far, on our road trip through Mexico, we have rented six vacation houses that did work out (pictured here) and two that haven't (not pictured here). From those experiences, there are lessons to be learned.
 
The first rental gone bad was in San Miguel de Allende.  Here are the facts, with parenthetical commentary.
  • We found the rental on the very popular site VRBO. ...

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