- Well, it is a late January in Oaxaca, Mexico
and it's evening time.
Perfect temperature for shorts and a t-shirt.
- That's nothing compared to the scorcher
it was today, though.
That's why we're coming
- (laughter) Scorcher
- Okay it was about 85,
but I swear feels like a hundred in the sun.
And I don't know,
there's something about the sun here
that feels much stronger.
I get sunburned very easily in Mexico.
- (laughter) We've already turned into pansies
after leaving Puerto Morelos,
the Riviera Maya, just a few months ago.
- You know, in our defense though, there's no AC here.
So when it gets hot, it's just hot.
You just have to deal with it, you know.
But it is gorgeous now.
So we're out, along with dozens
and dozens of people on this beautiful Saturday night.
Well, something really weird just happened.
We went to turn on the street where we're going
to the restaurant that we're going to eat dinner.
And this guy, I noticed he followed right behind us,
had really weird body language.
And so then I said, okay
let's go off to the side here to Jordan.
And the guy definitely was following us
- A little bit younger, probably in their 20s
- Yeah, little bit younger than us.
So we go across the street,
and he starts shouting profanities at us in Spanish.
[Man Off Screen] I was watching you guys.
- Hey, thanks.
- Thanks.
- Yeah, like the calling us pendejos,
which doesn't really have a English translation,
but there's no good way that it can be used in Spanish
- And angry. He was very angry.
So we went back over here to the walking street to be
around a bunch of people,
because I'm honestly freaked out,
and he went the way that we were going.
I don't know why he did that.
I don't know who that guy is.
Never seen him before.
And we didn't do anything today
that would cause any of this.
- My, my one thought is in a recent video
I pointed out graffiti on an aqueduct
and I called the people pieces of shit who painted it.
So maybe he's one of those guys.
- He's one of those guys.
So we're just going to walk completely
different roundabout way to get to the restaurant.
But I noticed over here, this is a tiny little park
near central, and they're selling a bunch of artwork today.
This is kind of a part of town
where lots of artesanias are sold
artesanias, artwork, clothing, textiles.
All of the beautiful things that will Oaxaca makes.
You can find it in this area.
- Boo.
- Boo. I'm kind of scared of this guy.
I don't know what his deal was.
- Mind if we sit here?
- [Waiter] Okay.
- We are now at this tapas and wine bar.
This place we've tried one time here
in Oaxaca, and it has the cheapest wine I've seen
in Mexico in really long time.
And for every drink you get, they bring out a tapa,
kind of like they do in Spain.
- Yeah, this is one of the better priced restaurants
we've seen around town.
So we had to come back here.
One more note on that thing that just happened
when we were followed.
You saw him first, and you thought
it might be a pickpocket situation
because like
- Like his body language
- And following us around the corner.
- Uh huh. But I just want to point out,
This has never happened to us in Mexico before.
It's not a common occurrence.
The only time.
- Gracias.
- Gracias. That someone has ever been shouting at us,
is if they know us from YouTube.
- Or they're trying to sell us something.
- Or they're trying to sell us something,
but they'll be like, ten free apples or tangerines.
Jordan and Maddie, like they're shouting our names.
But it's not in an aggressive, negative way like that was,
so I don't know what the deal was,
and I hope we never find out.
- Yeah, that was crazy.
But you know, that's, that's just one
of the things about travel,
about, I guess life in general,
keep your head on a swivel,
and pay attention to your surroundings.
I didn't notice.
So thankfully you did.
- Quick, pat myself on the back. Oh, thank you.
- I'll pat yourself on the back.
- Oh, thank you.
Thank you so much.
- Okay, so I ordered a shot of mezcal
from the haveli plant.
This is more like a double shot.
It was 85 pesos, but coming to Oaxaca
you, you're like kind of ingrained
in all this mezcal culture.
There's a lot of food and drink culture here
that you learn about over time,
but there's many different agave plants
that mezcal is made from.
And this is haveli but,
- Yeah, for the longest time I thought
the name of the mezcal had to do
with the region that it was cultivated.
I didn't know they were all different plants,
and they all looked so different.
So like blue agave, it's pretty large agave plant.
And maybe other types of agave plants that get big, too.
But we recently saw them in pots,
and some of them are stout
and like the leaves are really bad and jagged
Others of them are really more skinny.
And it was like,
whoa, imagine if I had seen that before.
And you were saying you don't think
I would have picked tobalá as my favorite.
- Because it's kind of an ugly plant?
- It's an ugly, like, short, squatty, mean looking guy.
- But it's probably your favorite that you've had.
- But it's, yeah, I like it. It's so smooth.
- But anyway, you're the official mezcal taster
even though I ordered it.
You have to tell me whether this is good or not.
- Okay. You made a face.
I bet it's strong.
Oh, it's like, this is really smooth.
- Oh.
- Kind of sweet.
- I guess I'm just a weenie.
- And it smells, it smells very smokey,
but it doesn't taste quite as smokey.
And I got a tempranillo vino.
This is their wine of the week for only 45 pesos for a cup.
- And then they brought out a little tapa
that almost tapa'd over.
- (laughter) (foreign language)
Oh my gosh, that's a big bite
- Mm, that's tasty.
- Gracias.
- My food came out, and it's an ensalada caprese
with really fresh, really nice high quality mozzarella
and pesto and large tomatoes.
So good.
- Gracias. Gracias, Lisa.
This pasta may not look like much.
It's a shrimp pasta with Parmesan on it.
I got it last time, and it is perfection.
- Hello. You just turned the camera on me.
I'm just over here trying to chop up my caprese.
- Chop it up?
- Chop it up.
this plate that they give me,
like some plates here in Oaxaca made out of clay,
is like super boggely. (laughter)
- Like a toboggan.
- So I'm just waiting to launch this
across the restaurant accidentally.
Um, just like last time.
We have now entered tantering troubles after dark.
Do you ever notice that you don't see us doing things
at night that often?
Well, the sun is technically still out,
but once it goes down completely, we turned into vampires.
So we have to do everything in the daytime
But anyway, I decided to get another glass of wine
for 45 pesos and they brought out another tapa.
- Well, some might say we had
way too much wine and mezcal.
I'd say we had just the right amount.
- I agree.
- And we both had dinner
and we got out of there for just over 500 pesos,
which for the number of drinks and whatnot and the food,
I think it's a good deal.
- Yeah.
- I'm going back there for sure.
A couple of weeks back, we put out a video,
'Mexico tourism is about to get CRUSHED',
and in that we explained the reasons why.
Because there was a change of the law in the U.S.
And Mexico really depends.
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- Gong, that bell.
- (laughter)
(bell gongs)
- And again, but don't gong it twice.
Because then you'll ungong it.
While we're at it,
you might as well subscribe to our channel
So you see future videos that we have
while this is doing.
ow many do you think is going to be? It's 7:14.
What does that even mean? It's 7:14
- (laughter)
- What are we gonging for right now?
(Bell gongs)
You know, we've never actually gotten to gong a real bell,
Like a serious
- A church bell.
- A serious cathedral, temple, church bell in Mexico.
If anybody knows when, where, or how that can happen,
we will come to a city near you.
- (laughter)
- And do that, like seriously.
- (laughter)
- So we put out this video,
the Mexico resorts immediately went into action
finding a solution
because they saw the cancellations pouring in.
As a solution for the testing requirement,
they were all offering free onsite testing,
And many of them were offering, if you tested positive
and couldn't fly back to the U.S.,
that they would allow you to stay in the resort
14 more days for free.
But then, we just got news that coming up very soon,
The U.S. is now, in addition to a negative COVID test,
requiring quarantine when you
- Mandatory quarantine.
- When you get back to the U.S.
The details aren't out as of the filming of this video
as to how long that's going to be,
or when that goes into effect
- Or how it's going to be enforced.
Oh my gosh, there's a cockroach.
Please don't come anywhere near me.
- (laughter)
- This really threw a wrench into our week, though.
And this week has been a total whirlwind for us.
- Yeah.
- Because we have a necessary business trip coming up
where we have to fly back to the U.S., so we're
- And just to clarify on this,
we put this off as long as possible.
We don't want to be flying right now.
That's not something we feel comfortable doing,
but this is time bound.
And there's not really any way for us to get around it.
Like you said, it's been a whirlwind.
We've been having to make a lot of very quick decisions
about what we can do
to like make this trip happen or cancel it.
- So you were saying you're not comfortable
flying right now. I actually am,
like after seeing tons of stats,
I know that people our age,
in good health are pretty much not affected,
but you were just telling me
how you keep going back and forth.
- We hardly know anyone who has
actually personally gotten it,
but then a close family member of mine just did.
And then on the one hand,
I feel like things are pretty safe here in Mexico.
Like all the possible precautions
are being taken that could be,
but then I'm getting warned by a bunch of people.
Like beware of this, watch out for that.
So it's kind of just like.
I just go back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
- I also like see treatments that look
very promising being suppressed.
- So then there's that
then there's the whole conspiracy behind it all.
Or if it is.
Yeah, so basically I don't know what to think
because there are so many different angles of this.
And even that makes me think,
is that just all part of it?
Just confuse everybody to the point
that they don't know what to think?
And like that's part of the ploy?
I don't know.
So it's yeah.
I just don't know what to think.
I just keep saying that because I really don't.
- So it went from us thinking
that Mexico tourism is about to get crushed
to, wow, there's going to be, tourism is going to take off
because resorts are doing this.
They're going above and beyond.
And now, again, I'm back to the
the it's going to get crushed again.
- There's so many unexpected twists and turns happening.
I know some people say like, Oh, it's about time
that this testing requirements happening.
It's about time the mandatory quarantine
is happening in the U.S.
And all that kind of thing,
but it doesn't make it any less
like a whole stressful ordeal
for everybody to be trying to adapt
to all these new changes and new requirements.
- Does anyone feel like they're getting whiplash
and doesn't know what to think about it all?
- Ain't that seriously.
We're going to do our best to keep you guys updated.
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