Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.news2me.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!216.196.98.140.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "dave greene" Newsgroups: fj.rec.travel.world Subject: Mexico Travel Date: 3 Mar 2007 02:44:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 17 Message-ID: <1172918684.637963.202390@64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 222.209.117.68 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1172918690 27859 127.0.0.1 (3 Mar 2007 10:44:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 10:44:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.2; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 64g2000cwx.googlegroups.com; posting-host=222.209.117.68; posting-account=lu9E-w0AAADdXHoadMBU7Z3w-4wTyD8f Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.rec.travel.world:665 When I first arrived in Mexico in July, 1995, I spoke almost no Spanish -- I knew no one --and, frankly, I was a bit nervous. Well, terrified is more like it. I knew I wanted to try living in Mexico, but I had no idea just how different the culture really is. Over my first two or three months, I honestly felt like I had made a VERY bad decision in moving to the southern Baja Peninsula. I was depressed and very lonely, and every day I thought about returning to my home in the U.S. Now, more than 10 years later, I look back at that time and chuckle, because I've seen so many people go through the same thing. Most every newcomer to Mexico gets frustrated by unexpected situations -- the things the tourism brochures don't tell you how to handle. Unfortunately, some end up leaving, while others eventually manage to settle into the lifestyle after a fair amount of time and A LOT of costly mistakes. http://mexicotravela.blogspot.com/#