The educational system in Mexico is a little bit different – there’s junior high, high school, undergraduate school, then graduate school when you decide what you want to be when you grow up; doctor, lawyer, etc. Here in Mexico, there’s junior high and high school. Once you finish high school, you immediately choose your career, so there’s not that 4 years undergraduate education. You immediately go to your graduate school and decide to be an accountant, an attorney, a doctor, etc. That’s why in Mexico you can be in a hospital bed and see a heart surgeons, brain surgeons, etc., who is 26 years old. However, this doctor would have at least a 5-year leg up on students of the US.
That being said, physicians finish their career here in Mexico and most go to specialize and do residencies in the US, Canada or Europe. So a lot of them, especially the younger ones, speak English to some degree, if they are not completely fluent.
Not only are they fluent in English, but most certainly they’re trained well. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of treatments being done here in Mexico that are not being done yet in America, for example, in the areas of diabetes, cancer, and several others. Many North Americans come to Mexico for that treatment because it’s supposedly not yet available or approved from the FDA from the US, but yet it’s available in Latin America, Europe, or Cuba. Is the healthcare here in Mexico more advanced? I would say “yes,” we’re advanced in many, many aspects.
(Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad de Mérida, Mexico, pictured.)
Belize does not quarantine pets such as dogs or cats. They require documentation from a vet that your pets are up to date on their shots, basically. 
Yes, of course, you can see beautiful flowers, plants and trees in Nicaragua. Any kind of tropical flowers that are common, such as orchids, and any kind of coconut trees, avocado trees, citrus trees, you can have it here. It’s a tropical climate so can have tropical flowers. You just see them walking around. For example, I have three coconut trees in front of me right now.
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It is important to note that the Portuguese are extremely helpful and respectful towards foreigners. Obviously, if an American or English person or other foreigner spoke to them badly or rudely a Portuguese person would reply in kind. But in many cases the Portuguese are far nicer to foreigners and more helpful to them than they are to many of their own people. 
At each of the stops on our road trip through Mexico, there emerged a personal and unique theme for Jet and me. In Baja California Sur, it was the rugged beauty of the desert juxtaposed against the almost unimaginably blue and clear waters of the Sea of Cortez. In the little town of Lo de Marcos and Nayarit in general, north of Puerto Vallarta, it was the rich, verdant jungle, plunging into the Pacific in little bays bordered by volcanic outcroppings. In Jocotepec, it was our...