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The People's Guide to Mexico
For More Information
Red Tape & The Law
Accommodations
Getting Around: Buses
Restaurants
Adventures
Globo Races
Retire In Mexico
Advertise on the PG Website
Staying Healthy
RV & Camping
Backpacking
& Boating
Hiking
Safety
Behind the Scenes
Keeping in Touch
Shopping
Belize
Letters from our Readers
Steve Rogers
Best of Central America
Live & Retire in Mexico
Stories
Best Of Mexico
Machismo
Speaking Spanish & Schools
Book Reviews
Maps
Our Sponsors
Camping
Markets & Stores

Telephones

Car Bonds
Mexico: A to Z
Tina Rosa
Carl's Notebook
Mexican Recipes
 Tourist Cards
Children
The Maya
Traveling Journal
Contributors
¡NEW! Articles
Trekking with Carl in the
Copper Canyon
Copper Canyon
Packing Up & Hidden Pocket
¡VIVA Mexico!
Cuba
People's Guide E-Letter
Web Reviews
Day of the Dead
The People' Guide to Mexico
wins Award
Who are We?
Driving in Mexico
People's Guide Travel Letter: Suspended
Women In Mexico
Email
Recent Articles
Environment
Food

¡NEW!

Recent

Carl's Mexico Notebook: Constantly Updated

The People's Guide to Mexico

25th Anniversary Review, Bellingham Herald
Review by David Eidell


Coming Soon: The People's Guide E-Letter


Carl's Notebooks

Carl's Mexico Notebook: Constantly Updated
#2, Carl's Notebook
#3, May 1999
#4, October 1999
#5, November 1, 99
#6, November 15, 99
#7, December 3, 99
#8, December 24, 99
#9, January 19, 2000


Mexico's Copper Canyon

Copper Canyon Home page

Another View: Mexico's Copper Canyon:
Batopilas

Exploring for Caves
Copper Canyon Travel Tips
Book Reviews
Treks

Trekking in the Copper Canyon

Copper Canyon Trek Homepage
Copper Canyon Treks: Dates & Prices
Overview
Photos of Trek
Itinerary
What's Included on Trek
Clothing & Gear
Suitability

Horse-Trekking in the Copper Canyon


Best Of Mexico & Central America

Mexico

Towns & Places

Aconchi Hotsprings
Baja
Chapala
Chiapas
Copper Canyon
Cuetzalan


Guadalajara
Lake Chapala
Living In Zamora
Michoacan
Nexpa
Nogales to Lake Chapala
Oaxaca
Pacific Coast
Puerto Escondido
Quintana Roo, Boca Paila
San Carlos Bay
San Cristobal de las Casas
San Miguel de Allende
San Sebastian-Mascota-Talpa

What is it?
Tips & How to Get There

Suggested Itineraries
Guidebooks

Safety

Belize: Visit, Live, Retire, Virtual exploration
Belize Retirement Guide: How to Live in a Tropical Paradise on $450 a Month

Cuba


Move to Mexico: Retire, Live, Work & Study

Owning and Operating a Small Business in Mexico
•Why are Carl and Lorena Living in Ajijic?
•Yanks Abroad: How Many Americans Really Live In Mexico?
•Midlife Mavericks: Women Reinventing Their Lives In Mexico By Karen Blue: Book Review
•Buying Restricted-Zone (Coastal and border zone) property
•Gardening in Mexico?
Gringa Unplugged
Living in San Cristobal
A Realistis Budget
Real Costs?
Paradise
Book Reviews

Puerto Vallarta

•Letters on Puerto Vallarta:
Renting in PV for a Month? Bus from PV to Guadalajara?PV in January? Tattoos in Puerto Vallarta? You're my •Folk Heroes! Driving from Laredo to PV?
•Where will I Live? • Rent? • Buy? • Build?
Budget Living in Puerto Vallarta
•Living near Puerto Vallarta: Q & A: Susan Asks Robert Foster
•We want to move to Puerto Vallarta Part 1
•Living & Working in Puerto Vallarta Part II?
•Living near Puerto Vallarta: Q&A: Susan Asks Robert Foster
•Shopping for House Furnishings : PV or Guadalajara?

Lake Chapala

•Why are Carl and Lorena Living in Ajijic?
Mexico’s Lake Chapala and Ajijic: The Insider’s Guide to the Northshore for International Travelers
Buying Property in the Lake Chapala Area

Dobie Homesteads in Mexico

#1: Dropping Out.....Again
#2: Thorns & Ants

#3: Tarzan Cuts Our Cocos
#4: Tarzan never returned
#5: Bugs: Not the Computer Variety


Mexico: A to Z

AA & 12-Step Meetings

Email

CyberMexico Index
Cyber Cafes in Mexico
Emails in Mexico

Snail Mail

Receiving Mail in Mexico
A Typical Polite Letter to Mexicans 

Telephones

Calling Cards
Call Back
Sponsor: Koala Call-Back Services


Children

•Entering Mexico: Single parents with children
•School Days in Mexico


Driving

Red Tape
Trip Reports and Campgrounds
RVs in Mexico
•The "Perfect RV" for Mexcio, by Carl Franz

OR? Other Views
A Class B Motorhome

A 23 ft Ultra-lite Travel Trailer

There's NO Perfect RV, BUT....

•Is it Safe for a Single Woman to drive in Mexico
Drive a Unimog to Central America?
•Colima Police

Extending Car Papers?
Bonding your Car

VW Vans


Environment

•The Environment & Eco-Tourism in Mexico
Headlines from Planeta.com
•Mexico's President Axes Mitsubishi Baja Salt Plant!


Food

Markets & Stores

Shopping in Guadalajara


Mexican Recipes

Tamales
Perfect Popcorn
Shrimp Cocktail Sauce
Gisela's Flan
Garlic Soup
Steve's Chile Rellenos
Dinner with Dona Mica
Mama Sol recipes
Oaxaca Cooking Video Tapes


Restaurants

Pizza in Reynosa


Organic


Getting Around

•The Ayudante as Folk Hero
Busjacked & Robbed!
The Savvy Bus Traveller



#7: Letters about Puerto Vallarta (November 2,000)
# 6: Letters (November 2,000)
# 5: Letters (July 5, 2,000)
# 4: Letters (June, 2,000)
# 3: Letters (January, 2,000)
From #5 Notebook
From #7 Notebook

About The People's Guide to Mexico


Lodging

La Quinta California
Budget Hotels
Homestays in Guernavaca


Machismo

•Machismo & Two Teen-age Daughters


Meditation

Vipassana in Mexico

Outdoor Mexico

RVs

•The "Perfect RV" for Mexcio, by Carl Franz

OR? Other Views
A Class B Motorhome

A 23 ft Ultra-lite Travel Trailer

There's NO Perfect RV, BUT....

Camping

Reta & Dick Bray's Trip and Campground Reports
Char & Al Bennett's Trip and campground Reports
Northern Mexico Campground Report

Kayaking in Baja
Bird Watcher’s Dream
Mountain Biking in Mexico?
Rock Climbing in Zacatecas

Hiking

Hiking In The Copper Canyon


Packing
Hidden Pocket
A Short Wave Radio

Mexican Auto Insurance
Paisano Mexican Auto Insurance
•Entering Mexico: Single parents with children
Moral Solvency?
Extending Car Papers
Bonding Your Car
New tourist permits

•Shopping for House Furnishings : PV or Guadalajara?
•History as Commodity, in San Miguel de Allende

Shopping in Guadaljara
Steve's Shopping Guide
Book Review: Oaxaca Crafts

Camping in the Peten Rainforest
Hurricane A'Coming

Parrot Fever
Dorado Fever


Travel Journal

San Carlos Bay
Nogales to Lake Chapala

Meditation in Mexico
Why We Meditate


¡VIVA Mexico! (Customs & Fiestas)


Working In Mexico

•Living & Working in Puerto Vallarta Part II?
Can I Continue My Career in Mexico?

    For More Information

Mexico Maps & Sources

Road Maps & Driving Atlases
Road Maps of Mexico: Single Sheet

State & City Maps
Map Dealers & Sources


Our Favorite Mexico Book: Reviews

The People's Guide To Mexico

New Book Reviews

•Midlife Mavericks: Women Reinventing Their Lives In Mexico
Sacred Monkey River: A Canoe Trip with the Gods
Mexico’s Lake Chapala and Ajijic: The Insider’s Guide to the Northshore for International Travelers

King of The Moon
Oaxaca Handbook
•Mexico: Adventures in Nature
Belize Retirement Guide
•Live Well in Mexic

Book Review Sections---

Armchair Traveler
Adventures
Baja
Belize
Camping
Copper Canyon & Northern Mexico
Cuba

Driving
Guatemala
Guidebooks
Gulf of Mexico
Highlands
Staying Healthy
History
Live and Retire in Mexico
The Maya
Mexico City
Natural Mexico
Novels
Oaxaca
RV & Camping
Shopping
Speaking Spanish
Women

Sponsor: Avalon: Moon Handbooks

Buying used books on Mexico

People's Guide Travel Letter Suspended
The People's Guide Travel Letter

    Who Are We

Artists

Steve Rogers


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