Buenos Días, Tangerineys! So it is now our second day traveling to the border. We
are still in Saltillo for just a brief bit more. We're in the center of town once
again in front of this stunning Cathedral! We learned that the events of
last night, the cultural festival that was going on, was actually an annual thing
that celebrates each year that this company, company what am I saying? [Laughter]
City. Each year that this city exists and it just turned 441
years old. Wow. And this Cathedral right behind us is probably about that old. And
I really think it's probably one of the most beautiful ones that we've ever
seen in all of Mexico so. I rate it number one. For such a humble town,
seemingly it seems like a relatively small town especially in comparison to
Guadalajara or other big cities, or the big city right next to it, Monterrey.
Do you have any thoughts on the town so far? It's a, it's pretty quiet, and people seem
to keep to themselves. I would say that in comparison to somewhere like Ajijic
where every person that you walk by, if you say buenos días, they smile and say
bueno días back. Here, people try not to make eye contact. Yeah, on the way to
breakfast this morning we said buenos días to like a dozen different people,
not a single one said it back. So that was kind of strange, we were starting to
wonder if maybe Spanish isn't the main language here something? [Laughter] What else? So
before we leave though, we noticed that there are a lot a lot a lot of dentists
office. Are we going in a circle?
Yes, we're going in a circle. It's a fountain, we're
just walking around it. So we noticed there's some Gringos here
getting dental work done, we're gonna go into one of the offices, get a price list
for you, so we can show you a little bit of what the costs are for that here.
Since there seem to be like dozens of dentists office and not very many other
businesses. That's like the number one thing in this town. So, we're gonna stop
walking in circles and go ahead and show you that.
So at this dentist's office you can get a cleaning with an x-ray for 99 pesos,
extractions for 80 pesos, braces for 1379 pesos, and I don't know what "Placa Dental"
is but that's 699 pesos. [Laughter]
So a crown is 299 pesos, a porcelain crown is 849 pesos. A cleaning is 149.
Within a block, there's about four or five dentists office, and to be honest we
haven't seen much else in the city. Of course, were just here for a night.
But there's like a mini supermarket and I haven't seen a grocery store. There are
very few restaurants except for what's around the centro area. Yes, it's kind of
hard to make an opinion of a city when you're staying here for this short of a
time. So that's the information we got for you and we are on the road.
On some of the roads here we have this red line going down the middle and this is a
runaway ramp if your brakes go out. You just follow this red line and then it
takes you up this hill right here. You'll run into like sand and gravel and
that'll slow the truck right down or your car. You know, I've seen those
runaway truck ramps in the US but never have I seen a red line on the road
leading you to it, so I think that's a pretty cool feature that they have here.
Hi.
We're going to Laredo.
Thank you.
To Nuevo Laredo, right? Yes, Laredo.
Laredo
You're going to Nuevo Laredo?
May it go well for you. Thank you, have a nice day.
Hang on.
Um, this doesn't look like enough.
350. It was 61.
350, 360.
370, 380.
384
I'm missing, I'm missing.
I'm missing. It was 500 and...
That looks more correct.
Okay. Okay, wow, so that's the first time we've ever been short-changed at a toll
booth here. So she either accidentally forgot to give us 50 back, or purposely,
who knows. In this particular toll booth though, it was different than a lot of them
and you have to tell...you have to go in the right line for where you're going
within Mexico, and then also tell them. And then it's a different price
depending on which, what your destination is. So for us it is Laredo and
it costs 61 pesos. We were still shortchanged by five, even after she gave
us that 50. Wow. Alrighty. So we still maintain our advice from yesterday's video
when saying make sure that you get the right change back, usually it's
better to. Hang on, we have to figure out where we're going.
Bah! So anyway. To finish [Laughter], to finish what I was saying, we do recommend reciting the bill
that you gave them out loud. Know what change you should get back and count it.
We... They kind of rush you because there's usually a little bit of a line, there's
usually cars behind you. So they like want you to go right away.
But fifty pesos is a lot to be shortchanged, so it could be an accident,
maybe she just did the math wrong. I'm just glad that Jordan's good at doing
math in his head and we had the presence of mind to remember to do that. After
reviewing this footage and looking at what actually happened here, when we held
up the cash in her hands there's no way that this lady would have seen exactly
how much she had given us. And without even batting an eye, in a second she
pulled out another 50 peso bill. So we really do like to give people the
benefit of the doubt, but in this case it really seems like she was trying to scam
us. And thinking to how she asked us Laredo, Nuevo Laredo, multiple
times, we think that she was trying to gauge whether or not we would be, we knew
what we were doing or we would have any idea that this is a possible time when
people would scam you. So let us know what you guys think but
that's sort of how the situation went down. On the topic of toll booths and
payment there's one thing that we kind of messed up on in yesterday's video. We
pulled up to a toll booth and I said it was weird that MasterCard was accepted
because usually it's only Visa that's accepted. But, you know sometimes you just
have to make assumptions with the information you have, and that's what I
was doing here. I've seen it over and over going to businesses, they have a
sign in the window saying Visa. I assume they accept cards and the only one they
accept is Visa. And there have been multiple occasions here in Guadalajara
where I say "Se aceptan tarjetas" and sometimes they say "Visa but no
American Express." I came to think that "You know what, MasterCard isn't accepted
anywhere," but we've gotten several comments saying hey you can pay with
MasterCard a lot of places. So if we were to put it in order best cards to the
worst cards it's probably going to be Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and
then Discover. And a lot of places you can't pay with cards at all and you need
cash. Laska no! Laska's trying to steal my food. [Laughter] So yeah, let us know if you can
pay with MasterCard a lot of places. We don't want to lead you guys astray with
false information. What is this? Do you think it's like the body of an airplane? Oh, you know...
Is it?
There's a whole bunch of them.
This was one of the weirdest things that I've ever dealt with. So all of a sudden
a bunch of semis came screeching to a halt and there's this bozo behind me
trying to pass on every side you can imagine, and then the semi in front of me
pulled out to the left like in the opposite side. Into oncoming traffic. So I
did that thinking that, he knows what he's doing. Yeah, we can't see anything.
And he pulls out, then then police come out of nowhere and they're like Senora
vuelta, vuelta, but. Like turn around.
But it was like, well then what the heck is this semi
doing leading me out into oncoming traffic? Those are huge!
Yeah, is that it? Nope. There's more. What's your guess? I think you could be right
but the wait, doesn't look like the outside of an airplane though. Maybe, Oh
is it part of like an industrial building?
243?
257. Thanks, have a nice day.
Okay, it's right. 243 for this toll.
Very expensive but at least we got the right
change this time. And that's, AH! That's something a little bit different about
this one and some that they that we go through, they recite the change that
you're getting to you. So that might be a good indication that they are giving you
that amount. I feel like more often than not they say the number they're giving back.
So now, we are pulling up to
a ban hair seat. Bon hair, bon hair cito. Banjercito booth. We're
pulling up to a Banjercito booth. To take a car into Mexico you need
something called a temporary vehicle import permit. You'll hear or see a lot
of people refer to it as a TIP. And you have to have this, it's a sticker that
you put in the top of your car to say that you are allowed to drive this
vehicle in Mexico. There are some free zones that you are allowed to drive very
close to the US border. But after you get past a certain point you must have this
or a police officer could pull you over. And we have heard that it is legal for
them to just take your car because it is illegal for you to be driving it there.
So you must get this. It is approximately 460 US dollars 400
of which is refundable when you take it back. You must return the
temporary vehicle import permit before you get another one and when you
surrender your visa. That means if you do not return your temporary import permit,
you can never import another car into Mexico! Ever. So for anyone wanting to
find the Banjercito at the Columbia bridge crossing, it's this little green
and white building. Okay, want to get out this card number ending
in zero seven four two?
Hi, how are you?
Good afternoon. Cancel?
Yes. Open the door, please.
I need the sticker please. Okay.
Deposit on Friday. Okay.
The next exit on the left?
Thank you. Thank you.
There are various locations where you can get a temporary vehicle import permit, henceforth referred to as
a TIP because it's a mouthful. You get them at a Banjercito booth
BAN-JER-CITO booth if you want to say it like that because you don't know how to
say it. And we have been told that you need your title to get it although I
have never had to show my title. You do have to show your vehicle registration,
driver's license, and your passport but you also need a visa in order to get it.
Whatever type of visa, you do need a visa. So you're either going to need an FMM
which is a tourist visa temporary residency, or there's other things like a
student visa if you're studying at a college or something like that.
But it is attached to your visa. So we were told that you need the card that
you paid with to get the 400 or so dollars back for your temporary import
permit, when in fact, at least at this place, it just goes right back on your
card within five days. So we go here. So as far as the process for all of this,
this was incredibly easy and painless. We were expecting it to be complicated, take
a long time. Maybe we didn't have the right paperwork or something or they
made us jump through hoops. That was not the case. We showed
up to this little banjercito booth. I can't stop. Handed the guy all the
paperwork that we had originally gotten for the TIP, my passport, I believe my
tourist visa, and he took all that, recorded some stuff, took pictures of
various points at the car, probably like serial numbers or something, and then the
license plate. He made us peel the sticker off of the
window up at the left side of the rear view mirror and handed it back, and we
were on our merry way. It is about like a quarter mile from the border and also a
very short, like maybe one minute drive from the office that we needed to go to
to turn in our tourist visas, and we will get to that in a minute. It is very much
worth noting that not all Banjercito booths are right near the border
like this one at the Columbia bridge crossing. In fact, when we first came in
to Mexico we missed the booth and ended up
continuing driving and how to drive all the way down to Guaymas before we found
another one, and thankfully we did because at that point we would have had
to drive all the way back to the border to get one since we were leaving that
safe zone where we didn't need to have it. And if you've watched anything to
this point you know we've gotten pulled over so many times, and we are constantly
stopped when we go through these checkpoints and stuff, so if your
experience is anything like ours, if you don't have that sticker, you are gonna
get in a lot of trouble for not doing that so make sure to get that sticker if
you're driving in Mexico with a foreign-plated car. And now we are going to
return our tourist visas at the INM office. Don't mind me, squinty McSquinterton.
I can't see anything. So this whole process was super easy! Way easier than
people make it out to be. We went in there, turned in our old tourist visas,
and she put a stamp on our passport, and then, we're on our way. And yeah, we're on our way.
So I think it's kind of weird to get out of that area of the Columbia Bridge
where the Banjercito was for turning in the temporary import permit
and where we turned in our tourist visas. They charged us 27 pesos to get out of
there, coming to the US. If we were to just leave that area and go back to Mexico, it would be nothing.
Right, it would cost nothing but I think that's kind of weird because you're like
paying to leave Mexico or something? So you're paying for your vehicle, like it
was per vehicle, depending on the size of the vehicle. I don't know, seems weird. But
here we are about to go back into the U.S. at Lardeo. I don't think we should
record here because I don't think that's allowed. Okay bye!
We just crossed the border back into the US, we were in a line of what five, four or
five cars? There was only one lane open at the Columbia Bridge, asked us a few
questions like what we were doing in Mexico, what we do for a work in Arizona,
and yeah that was pretty much it. They asked us where we were going and he
tapped on the top of my car, and looked in the back. Tapped on like in the
hatchback area back there. Tapped around. Probably to check to see if it sounded
Hollow, see if there were any drugs underneath there or something. Which is
weird because it is hollow, there's like a tire below there but that's beside the point. Anyway, we get
back here and I'm like [Laughter] I'm like crap! Oh no, Jordan said I'm like there's this stop and it's
probably not stop-tional here in the US. And then it occurred to me, oh crap
I'm probably gonna have to start following road rules again. [Laughter] So true. Good times! [Laughter]
You may or may not be surprised to find out that we are in Target. [Laughter] One of our very
first stops besides gas once we got back to the US because gas is cheaper
here $2.51 a gallon, so we got the, let the tank get as low as possible before
getting back to the US knowing that it would be quite
cheaper. Yeah, we were literally running on fumes but anyway, we're here in target
to pick up a few non-important things. Things that we can't get in the US, or can't get in Mexico.
It's actually super nice in here. It's 110 degrees Fahrenheit
outside and probably like 72 degrees in here. Oh my gosh! $1.99 and 2-something.
You can't get these in Mexico. If you have a sweet tooth, a candy you like in
the US, bring some with you. Alrighty, so you're gonna be having sugar
for dinner, huh? Most likely! Oh my gosh! And we are pretty surprised to see, or to
hear that most, more people are speaking Spanish in this Target than in English,
and an even bigger surprise - we can understand every single word they're
saying! Every word! What are you doing? What are
you doing? Candy? What? And that? All you get is sugar!
And sugar covered with sugar and colors of sugar.
[Laughter] You can't get this sugar in Mexico! Oh my gosh!
I have to get it while I can. Okay, so we've gotten a few things, let's walk.
We've got 24 bottles of drinking water. They're like a half-liter each. Purified drinking water for
$2.50. I got a baby loofah for 99 cents. What is that? A baby loofah!
Cute. It's cute. That's what I was looking for.
I got a deodorant, it smells really good. For...I forget.
Deodorant for $4.99, Tom's toothpaste $3.79, and why are we
getting some of these things here? Well, these are just some things that we
really like and can't find in Mexico and why else? I don't know, is there a reason? Because it's Target, we kind of
missed it. Okay, so this was the end of the second day, and at this point we
seriously started asking ourselves, everyone talks about how difficult this
process is, and how much time it takes, and it's stressful, but everything has
gone weirdly, weirdly smooth, so... Dun, dun, dun! This is like
the calm before the storm potentially? You'll have to find out in tomorrow's
video. If you want to see what happens next with our visa situation and
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