Moving To Zihuatanejo!!!

thamks

So glad you are back on line and OK. It looked and sounded like a terrible accident that an experienced driver was able to survive with luck thrown in.

Probably a good idea to keep a place here in paradise.

We still owe you a beer+ when you get back down here. Let us know if you need anything we can help with!

Getting back on my feet after accident. We just bough a Class C, no slides, which we plan to leave in Villa Corona near Guadalajara and just fly down each season. Porbably bring it home this seson just so I can do what needs to be done to it after using it for a few months. We will certainly head back to Zia at some point. I am not leading caravans much anymore, just want to take it easy & relax. Still going to do some stuff for Caravanas de Mexico, the owner has become a good friend over the years and we are now sort of blood brothers after being together in an accident (In Canada) that was so close to being fatal.

Pili looked at the taxiista that quoted that price as if he was Groucho Marx. He got mad slammed the door and drive off. He thought we were vaccionistas. We wanted a ride to Waldos and Back. Glad to hear about the colectivos.

In Ixtapa....
Pass across the street from where the US Consulate used to be. Walk north 300 feet. There is nearest the street a restaurant the family decided was their regional favorite. We've never found anything in Zihuatanejo it's equal for value. Great summer breezes -- super ambiance, clean, upscale, comida corridas, and prices that beat anything we found in Zihua.

Hah if you are searching for the poorest restaurant experience -- come north. Lazaro Cardenas. Wotta hoot.

We dislike Patzcuaro's pathetic restaurants. Settling for food stalls in the market at plaza bocanegra or on the highway leading into town next to the gasolinera. Posada Don Vasco has good food but it's pricey.

Of course we are all spoiled by Brenda's cooking at the enramada. One day southern folks wandered in and discovered Ingles was spoken. It soon became apparent they were homesick for Arkansas grub. Their Arizona friends were at home with Mexican food.

So I whipped up a batch of suthern frahed chicken, biscuits and gravy. Never seen five people eat so much food. Brenda had a look of horror on her face when she saw the preparation of milk gravy with bacon. Used a whole box of USA bisquick.

MIRA MA MA! Dalia was holding up a twenty dollar bill propina (tip)

They returned 15 miles the next morning for Jimmy Dean patty sausage, genuine (my hens) ranch eggs. Genuine hash browns, chiapas coffee. Another huge tip.

Forgot the man's name...

"We was ready to go home"

They finished off by eating Christmas dinner up at the hotel. It was full on -- "Say this the best turkey I've ever eaten!"
Mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry jelly, asparagus from Cuatro Caminos, olives, hazelnuts, and from scratch 16" pumpkin pay, with real whipped cream. The fresh mango cobbler didn't hurt any either.

We had English guests, Darryl and Rose. PG Tips tea made their day. They spent three weeks at the hotel.

Food can make or break an area.

This is our first floor and location on Google maps is included in the writeup: VRBO: 1261544

We are within 50 feet of the delphines you refer to. We have a great combi system that runs from 6:15am to 7:30ish daily for 8.5p per person. It runs from Centro to the far end of Playa la Ropa. Rode it today, twice.

Taxi to Centro? 30p for as many people as you can cram in, 40 middle of the night.

Health? All we can do is our best.....

T/H
You know the intersection with the blue and white tres delfinas glorietta? Is that within summer-heat-walking-distance from your home? There was a taxiista parada about halfway down to the beach enramada restaurants. Curiosity (?) Is there a municipal bus that serves that area? Paying 90 pesos for un ride to centro seemed a bit pricey. It would translate to something like 140 or 160 pesos by today's rates. We used to bring the girl's to that beach because of the calm water. I used to raid paperback bookshelves. No longer necessary with my NOOK and Kindle.

Note on health...it sure seems genetics plays a huge part on senior's health. You may be smirking about health issues today -- similar to what a friend used to do when drinking hundreds of dollars worth of powders, potions, elixir's and miracle preventatives every morning. He spend hours in his lap pool, jogged, raved, harped and cajoled people who didn't go to that extreme. Got an email from Michael his son the first of the month "Dad had a serious stroke and can't talk and his bank account is all locked up because he cannot remember his pin numbers".

Health comes to a serious pothole when an impossible hospitalization becomes a reality and after being released they hold their hand out for ten thousand dollars. May I suggest looking at joining IMSS? Health care may be "cheap" when compared to the absurd rates in the USA but I can assure you when I was released after 11 days with a broken arm the twenty one thousand DOLLAR bill they slapped on me was anything but a joke. It became serious when the cops ensured I did not leave the hospital until the balance became $00.00 IMSS managed to convince them I was covered. My arm required 5 hours on the table in Mexico and another five hours in Sebastopol CA. The titanium plate and screws cost 2200 dollars* and had to be flown in from DF. Cheap? Right! The cost of the USA hospitalization was 55 thousand dollars.

Two stainless steel shishkabob pins first used then discarded cost over 200 dollars in Mexico.

ONLY medical treatment to stabilize a patient is done at no cost in Mexico. An acquaintance was in hospital for four days after suffering a supposed heart attack. He paid over ten thousand dollars.

A lady in Totonaka RV park, slipped on a morning-dew RV step and ten thousand dollars later returned. She was hospitalized in Guaymas. Oh by the way, that was in 1988 at an IMSS facility. A simple lens replacement for one cataract eye cost two thousand six hundred dollars.

Yes my Mercedes 600 series costs less than your Bentley dept.

You might want to check this out. What I wrote above is from personal experience. Up close and personal. Not from rumor, conjecture, or guesswork.

You are correct! We are regaining consciousness today, and I'll get our location changed. DONE!

Mexicowanderer, we aren't yet eligible for Medicare, and until the Affordable Care Act, did everything we could to stay healthy, and if we did need care, either just paid for it or came to Mexico for great affordable care. We were uninsured from 1985 until 2014. It worked for us, but we also worked at being healthy. Still do!

Talleyho, thanks for continuing to moderate, even without an RV! Enjoy your new life -- you're going to have to modify your signature block to say Playa La Ropa instead of Silver Strand!

You are one of the lucky ones.
I love Mexico.

The only reason you may consider a trip beyond The Wall is to minimize medical waiting time and expenses. My enviable medical history started to become unenviable on the early 1990's. I gained weeks worth of experience in Mexican hospitals and similarly weeks worth of experience with Sebastopol, Concord, and Chula Vista hospitals.

The referral staging between IMSS periferico and 2o and 1o expertise can become maddening. I waited months to see a specialist and spent 10 days waiting for a surgeon with no signals that the wait could take yet another month.

Mexicoruss has it made. The primer IMSS facility in Hermosillo is one of the best in the entire country (they do heart/lung transplants there).

With MediCare and HMO my medical care and medications in the states are free 100% gratis. Being that you folks are 25 minutes from an airport with frequent flights to all over the USA it is an option worth considering. Alaska Airlines there gave me the straight up dope. If a passenger can climb the stairway to board an aircraft they get aboard. I did it with heart problems but brother was I winded at the top a stewardess had to help me to my seat.

I am usually pro-Mexico in my choices but as far as 1o medical care is concerned it isn't a contest -- if the USA destination is in a medically counterweighted area like Santa Rosa, Concord, or San Diego area. I understand Houston is another choice medical destination, and of course so is Boston.

Some folks fly away home if they get into trouble. And that is foolish to the extreme. Any 2o IMSS hospital has a talented trauma team and their specialty is to stabilize the patient -- something that is impossible to do if a cardiac infarction or a stoke is involved. My last encounter was last August. When I entered Sharps Medical Center in San Diego I had a pulse of 38 and a BP of 92/57

The final reason I prefer the USA is that even with amazingly serious operations, the strongest analgesic administered is paracetamol (Tylenol) and an injection of NSAID like Iboprofen. This isnt rumor or conjecture -- effective opioids are NOT available anywhere in the country. The strongest opioid is hard to find -- it's brand name is TYLEX. One eighth grain of codeine and a little over 5 dollars a pill. I had stainless steel pins holding my hand to my arm August 2011 and I DROVE two thousand miles like that using an NSAID and paracetamol. Neat huh?

The IMSS facilities in Morelia and DF burned me out of gummy rice, a stewed chicken leg more akin to quail than a real chicken and a stack of curled dry tortillas that if blackened would have perfectly mimicked heat warped 45 RPM records from the sixties. There was a tablespoon a salad and a squeeze of limon.

Mexico 5-week wait and a 600 mile drive for an MRI

USA Which MRI is available at 2:00 PM?

Mexican specialists IMHO are talented as all get-out. There's just 5% available of what they really need, here. Monitoring machinery where I went is reserved for the most serious of the critically ill. Being an old decrepit EMT I recognize this stuff and can match appropriate monitoring versus symptoms.