Visit Mexico— “twice the lifestyle at half the cost.”

At a gentle 80 degrees and a slight breeze. Only one other family, about 50 yards away, shared this paradise on the Sea of Cortez in Baja California, which you pay the equivalent of $3 to enter. Lazily considering the events of your life, your thoughts interrupted by a man who rides up in a dune buggy asking if you want to buy some shrimp for lunch, for about $2.

You may welcome the possibility of what you were led to believe could be achieved by visiting Mexico— “twice the lifestyle at half the cost.”

Becoming a better person, and perhaps even gaining some wisdom.

Doing so would be much easier on the road, in a different country, experiencing different things, among people of sometimes radically different socio-economic status, for example, people we would meet living in a Mexican fishing village who had one tenth the disposable income as in the US. How could you not emerge from this experience better than when you started?

To have fun, an adventure, gain new competencies, experience new and unpredictable things.

Going on a cruise can be fine, taking the tour to a well-known tourist destination can be OK, and enjoying a break at an all-inclusive resort can be pretty awesome for the week you indulge.

What gets your senses really awakened and what you remember the most long afterwards is experiencing something different.

Cross the California border into Baja, drive to a small village between La Paz and Cabo San Lucas, take the ferry to near Puerto Vallarta, then into the highlands to the well-known expat locales of Lake Chapala and San Miguel de Allende, down to the Yucatan to Merida and Quintana Roo (Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Tulum, etc.) all the way to the border with Belize.

How could you not have a great time?

Or you could drive (cheaper and much more interesting), stay at or near the same fabulous places for around $50 per night, but have the time to relax, immerse, and really get to know the people and places where you were staying and then mosey inexpensively onto the next adventure.

When you go back, how could you not be more interesting, well-rounded, well-adjusted, happier people afterwards?

After finishing your shrimp on that beach.

In Mexico there are some of the longest seawalls in the world, with piers with their most
impressive viewpoints of our country, some examples are:

• Pier of Cozumel: it hosts one of the biggest parties on the island, what is the carnival.
• Pier of Campeche: impressive five point five kilometer malecon, gives a nice view and is mostly visited by locals, so it can be part of their culture, has jogging or running tracks, for cycling and skating .
• Malecon of Puerto Peñasco: with 450 meters you have a very nice view.
• Pier of Manzanillo: is impressive with a huge sculpture of a sailfish, with 25 meters high, 30 meters base and weighs 70 tons.
• Pier of Veracruz: it is very old, it is an icon of the city, it has 8 kms. It has an incredible attraction with its small shops.
• Pier of La Paz: it is a symbol of the city, it has 5 kms and it has an artistic side, I have artistic sculptures allusive to marine life in its majority.
• Pier of Puerto Vallarta: a historic monument of the port, and one of the most famous breakwater in Mexico, measures almost 2 kms. Favorite place for visitors for the fabulous sunsets that can be observed.
• Pier of Mazatlán: one of the largest in the world with 21 kms. You can see the beaches, roundabouts and sediments.

Beside beaches, Mexico has a lot of cultural places AND sites that will amaze you.

Carlos Cas