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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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