ouch can we put on the tripod good okay Wow I know where my jacket well I got to
turn the heat if I'm a jacket or sweater all right I'll put on a sweater what's
up guys welcome back to our Channel today we're doing a little bit of a
different style vid stir we're doing a Q & A you guys seem to like the Q days we
had a lot of Q's about Mexico hopefully if we have a lot of A's I'm not sure
we'll do our best to answer it and hope you enjoy yeah for those of you who are
familiar we're Eamon and Bec we just spent almost two months driving down
from Toronto Canada - all the way to like Oaxaca the coast of Mexico
had a lot of fun we had a lot of fun a lot of fun Amon took to his Instagram
which is at 8.2 showdown if you'd like to follow me as well I'm at Rebecca
Maroni and I'm both feeling 2 below and right here sure anyways I think I'd like
to just start the Q&A if it's okay with a little chat really briefly about how
we felt pretty going into Mexico it's a good idea and how nervous we were and
all of these things that were probably a little subconscious like you were in
this mood and I could tell you were just nervous and really scared but yeah I
mean like you talked to anybody about going to Mexico at least in Canada or
North America like you get wet brainwashed by the media all you see on
the media is kidnapped here stabbed here robbed here so they love to highlight
and spin Mexico as a dangerous place now that doesn't mean that it's not
dangerous like there definitely are cartels the narcos are there there's a
lot of crime so that always kind of sits in the back
your mind we can tell you as much as we want about how great of an experience we
had but everyone's experience is different people are generally really
and ax goes no different yeah we've been saying like when we catch up with people
back home now that I'm trying to like everyone goes where did you feel unsafe
did you feel into first question and we said we felt way less safe and some of
the US cities that we drove through especially Chicago and these places that
we thought like oh it's a big developed city and we'll be fine
but it certainly didn't feel that way so it almost feels like we've answered a
question about safety but I just kind of wanted to start it off by saying like a
disclaimer before we went to Mexico I wish we had seen a video that chatted
about these kinds of things and hopefully this video this QA if you're
headed there oh by the way to even tell people that we're in our van tell me
more why not know we drove in our van in there let's jump into your specific
questions so again these are from a man's Instagram and you guys had tons of
questions so we'll start off a little easy this is from at life's and awesome
wave it's funny when it's all in Denver together I can't even okay so life's an
awesome way of ass how was the heat in your man I know in your conversion you
did not install a/c was it ever uncomfortable hot I will be spending a
good amount of time in Baja on the beaches and I'm wondering if I should
install an a/c unit good question great question I think the first thing that
comes to mind is depends on the time of year so we were lucky it was kind of a
shoulder season and it wasn't getting into like the rainy he made crazy heat
that Mexico gets so be aware like what point of the year you're traveling I
wouldn't say it was unbearable I definitely wouldn't say it's unbearable
but if you watch back some of the videos I'll link them here we were kind of or
at least I was struggling in the 40 degree weather like it definitely got
hot and what I would say is the days that were really hot we seem to be by
the beach like those 14 degree days were by the beach and what we would do is
like I felt with kid we're playing all day you're out in the water you have
great food with like friends and then you're so tired by the time it's time to
go to bed that even if you are a little uncomfortably hot
you just kind of crush yeah if that means I mean you make do we've got a
fantastic fan and we've got like a little rotating fan that kind of that
little rotating fan is almost more keyed in effect I think it was yeah cuz it
just blows you know air onto your body as you're sleeping so we didn't I don't
think AC is that key and if I if I had we had the same amount of power usage I
wouldn't want to not make a smoothie in the blender or not have power to charge
my laptop because I wanted to have AC at night so you would need a pretty big
battery bank to be able to pull it off I think young and able she asks what
precautions did you take to make sure you weren't inviting trouble so I'll
start with this one I think one of the biggest things that we've done and
especially in our travels like we've kind of neutered throughout it is that
we don't invite trouble like you're saying so we don't go out and party we
don't stay out past late we would never drive after jars all of those little
things that I think set you up to get into totally we have tinted windows
anytime we'd park overnight we put the the privacy screen up you'd make sure
that you wouldn't have any like camera equipment or anything in the front you
just don't want to invite an invitation even moment when we first got into
Mexico I put blocked up duct tape on the
Mercedes logo like that's how kind of paranoid if you wanna comb that I was
because these people don't have a lot of money
and if they are criminals then you're just giving them an invitation yeah so
you just want to stay incognito I do this to all my cameras because it just
once again adds a little bit of discreteness I don't know if you guys
can see that but I cover up all the brand names so the Canon logo I do that
on the Canon the GH five it's just once again people see Canon they think
expensive so this is from mrs. Brooke or yeah mrs. Brooke she says would you
change any planning if you went to Mexico for a Mexico trip 2.0 if you
wouldn't change anything what would be the things in places experiences you
would go back to like that you would just double down on and you're so
excited to get back to um first things first we definitely plan
on going back to Mexico absolutely 150 percent I think for me
just quickly speaking as much as I've loved so many of the places that we've
been in Mexico it's not that I wouldn't want to go back there it's just that I
feel like the world is so big and there's so much to explore and I'm so
excited to see more of it when we hung out with Max and Lee they spent almost
two months in Baja which we had always kind of thought Oh everyone seems to go
to above all a lot of van lifers are there it can't be all that great but it
sounds like if you really give it time you can discover some amazing places in
Baja they love it they nobody I might have birthed a little bit why why can't
you just pretend just why you always say something you like we need to go back to
a haka and get a real good coastal vacation out of it because we only spent
maybe five days in that area and it was so incredible so I might go back to some
of the exact same spots but I would definitely want to do more in that area
like we haven't touched Tulum that whole coast Oh the Yucatan is like a whole
other trip like there's so much to do a lot of questions about the language
barrier and speaking Spanish we had I think three months when we were in South
America so we learned a little bit of Spanish there but like really not much
but it's amazing like once you have that little bit it is sort of a base but I
think to be honest you'd figure it out like the technology is so amazing now if
we will translate and stuff like that you know we basically bought a whole new
engine and communicated a tow truck to pick us up in Mexico and pull us in the
border like that was pretty complicated so yes but you will enjoy it a lot more
if you do know Spanish yeah but also like learning is part of the journey so
there's so many comments like use Google Translate or that it was either that or
I can't believe you don't know Spanish and it was like worship we're on this
journey of learning together and the Google Translate thing felt like
a bit of a cop-out obviously in the big situations you need it but it's also
really fun to get your feet wet and completely mess up a try and that's
where we stand on the whole level of adventure yeah versus like a country
where you just speak English like it's so easy sorry mates we lost you there
man these batteries are getting a lot worse no so much okay let's continue our
thoughts Paloma Quesada hello mama Paloma Quezada
he was wondering what the price differences are when it comes to food
fuel and just things in general also how easy are hard was it to be vegan
thanks for sharing yourself fuel on par basically it's similar yeah and you want
to be careful that you know people aren't ripping off the gas station so a
lot of you guys actually messaged us saying make sure you like watch them
when they reset the meter in terms of food and fruit I think the greatest
thing about van life in Mexico was that we cooked almost every single meal so
the only time you guys really saw us eating out was when we didn't have our
van because it was in the shop or if we just wanted to try something and weren't
feeling like cooking which was so rare so we would go to fruity Rios and 40
areas or tell area I think it's 40 area tour Atilla oh there's two hours but
that's a why sounded artillery tortilla yeah going to the fruit area is such a
great cheap viable option and it's awesome for vegans because you just want
fresh fruit and veg and so it's amazing I think we've showed you guys in the
video so go back and watch the series if you haven't already but we we spent
maybe a hundred pesos to two hundred pesos every time we'd go and we get a
massive bag with plenty of avocados and all this kind of stuff and that maybe
around five to ten dollars us and that would last us for a couple of days the
question yeah the vegan part yeah yeah I was just gonna say something about that
like I kind of touched on it because we did so much of our own cooking that
wasn't such a stress of ours but we were very conscious like at the grocery
stores we pick up the cans and we knew that there was often lard and
some sort of animal products even in Maleng that just said beans and sauce or
whatever or just beans actually and we had a lot of messages about tortillas
and how they actually have learned in them so I mean maybe we weren't perfect
vegans I don't yeah we weren't like asking that Tortola Ria's hey is there
animal products in there like we're just eating with tortillas so there might
have been we're horrible being in super horrible people yeah sorry about that
guys okay yeah Alexandra Capobianco oh I know
you she was asking was difficult to
communicate with employees who were working after her business since you
mentioned before so basically about Wi-Fi yeah so I actually have my phone
on in Mexico so in Canada you pay it was expensive we paid like $12 a day to roam
like home shut up to Rogers psyche so yeah we got ripped on that but it was
great because I could make phone calls you have regular service and I think we
would need to do that regardless of any where we go just because we are running
a company but then also like we're all youtubers so we're constantly looking
for Wi-Fi requests and checking our email so that wasn't really an issue
Jane Alexa Jane asks how did you rig up the lady funnel for going number one I
don't remember if you showed it on a story or an episode but I thought it was
such a genius idea does it empty to the underside of the
van materials use just the funnel into question mark so I'm gonna let you take
that one and run but I will just say that I absolutely love lucky funnel I
think every man lever needs a pee funnel it was the greatest thing you've ever
installed we'd be cooking dinner with the three
different bands and we implement slugs who wouldn't love me but she would
literally be wearing a dress and be peeing in front of everyone no one even
knew so the funnel is hyper serrated knives that I'm like hey guys did you
know it was fun yes super super easy patent pending
we've got a lot of van lifers on that pee funnel game
and it's super simple it's literally a Havana shown them should I show them
yeah yeah yeah quickly while a man's moving you if someone asks Rose Mason
wants to know did you get the tattoo oh you did not get the tactic no
unfortunately guys okay this is the funnel it's really really simple it's
just like this funnel and a tube that goes straight through the bomb and
basically you pee through that that's it Rebecca just kind of holds it up like
that you pee and then we just hang it up so it's always like a straight line it's
always dripping down so it won't like pull off in there or anything and then
we have an all natural disinfectant that we disinfect it with every single time
so it doesn't smell or anything like that that's the people are we gonna
return and finish the trip that we had planned which was to go through Central
America and I think Wow sorry can start again why did you need to do that right
now it's bothering me so just quickly to touch on why we're back why we didn't
continue through Central America as you guys know by now we have a company and
two tea business based out of Toronto called chai wallah we sell unique
handmade chai and we go to some shows every year religiously actually when
this video goes out live we're going to be up both of them so on Sunday which is
tonight we're gonna be at the Toronto yoga conference as well as the Toronto
coffee and tea show so it's interesting because there's this
idea of van life where you can just kind of travel forever and not have to go
back to one spa and I think there's something really romantic about that but
we also really enjoy the fact that we do have a purpose behind our travel and our
business and everything so we're back we're back to work on our business um
which is why we had that two months and why we had to come back and cut it short
but in saying that I think for sure Central America is on the horizon for us
but not probably before what we want to do it well the summer yeah I mean the
summer is so beautiful to be in Canada in United States when I spend more time
in the west coast we don't have anything to set in stone yet but Alaska was a
really popular suggestion I've become so maybe up west and then Alaska and then
we got to come back for our busy time of year here so stay tuned are we done we
rested up I think that should be enough I don't know but like we said if you
guys have more specific questions about Mexico ban laughing in Mexico or
anything like that leave them below we're trying to put together some video
ideas that are like really detailed that are really going to give you the ins and
outs on how to do that and all that kind of stuff so I'm stay tuned for more
content about fan life in Mexico but we thought we just throw up this general
Q&A let you guys know that it's safe the food is good we're good what's going on
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