What's up Tangerineys! So recently someone told us that the Ajijic area
has a really great bus system, and that it's seven pesos, and it pretty much
takes you up and down, wherever you want to go. Hop on, hop off. Well, we've, to this
point, never figured out the bus system in any place in Mexico, just because uber
is so reasonably priced. So instead of doing research to figure out how it
works. How often they come. Or anything like that. We're just gonna figure it out
as we go and see what happens. We're gonna get on and see where it takes us.
Hopefully to Chapala! Hopefully to Chapala. Maybe Mexico City.
Maybe Guadalajara. We don't know.
Where are you going? Chapala.
So it turns out it's 8 pesos, but you can go anywhere from Chapala Jocotepec,
Which is like a 30-minute drive. And this bus seems to be pretty packed! We're
actually standing in the back because there wasn't seating room.
Hopefully we can hang on tight! We have no idea
where we're getting off. [Laughter] We're on this bus.
Uh, do you just get off somewhere, or?
We made it! I don't know where we. Somewhere in Chapala.
[Laughter] Well that was a pretty painless experience.
I think we waited like less than 10 minutes for
the bus to arrive, and that was what, like 15 minutes to get here or so? Yeah
And there were some people next to us who spoke Spanish who we're also going to Chapala.
And they were like "A Chapala?" (to the bus driver)
To make sure the bus was actually going to Chapala. Yeah.
So maybe that's something you do even if you know the bus system? And it was a
little bit crowded at first, but some people got off. So I don't think that was
a bad experience. I've definitely been on worse buses before.
80 pesos? Thank you.
Very pretty!
Tangerine flowers!
[Laughter] I think they grew these just for us.
15 pesos.
How big is the cup?
Is there anything to go?
I can put it in a bag.
Okay. Do you want orange, beet, and carrot?
With beet, it's going to be 20. Is that fine? Yes. Yes.
Very well. 1 or 2?
Just one, please.
To go, please.
Nothing like a good ol' bag of juice for 20 pesos.
We just got pictures taken for the last necessary step for temporary residency.
And we're killing time. We walked into what I think is like the main market in
chapala. Chapala, yeah. And got some juice.
So we're now walking along the Chapala malecon.
Malecón? Or malecon?
Don't you start this again Jordan! Which was it? I don't remember.
Malecón, I think. No, I think it's malecon. Oh my gosh! Anyway, there's
people swimming out here in the lake. A lot of people have asked us what the
toxicity levels are in the water. And we cannot speak intelligently on that right
now. We're still poking around, trying to do some more research and find accurate
scientific studies or something, so we can share that. But people do swim in the lake,
So obviously that doesn't mean that it's clean or dirty necessarily, but we're
kind of curious if you guys have any insight on the cleanliness, or the
toxicity levels in the lake? We were sent some stuff that said it was pretty
polluted. But talking to quite a few people here, they said it's gotten
cleaner over the years. But we don't want to spread rumors, we want facts. If you have them
please share in the comments.
So we have now gotten to the portion of the malecón where there's a lot of
vendors selling things, from clothes, to purses, and little trinkets, and whatnot.
We made our first video here on Easter Sunday, and there were all these vendors.
We thought it was, well, I thought it was only a weekend thing. Same. Or only a Easter holiday thing.
I thought everyone came out for Easter Sunday, but it turns out these are here
all the time. There's dozens and dozens of them all along this way. I love
looking at stuff like this, because you have all these hand-engraved, and
painted things, and they're all very unique, and kind of... You get a feel for
the culture of the city that way.
She likes the artsy stuff, I like the food.
Don't get me wrong, I don't not like the food. [Laughter] We're making bad
decisions. The first time we came to Chapala,
We came to a restaurant, specifically this one but many of them around here do
this. You buy an entree that has meat of some kind, and you get unlimited free
margaritas. So, [Laughter] They don't do this in Ajijic. What do you have there?
Hot tortilla! Hot tortilla, hot tortilla!
And these are chicken fajitas. We both got them for 90 pesos.
It's a lot of work, it takes a lot of time!
How many hours or how many days?
Half a day.
Half a day for this?
And for something like this, how much does it cost?
Cheap, 400 pesos.
400 pesos?
And how many months or years to learn how to do this?
60 years.
70? (Misunderstood her)
70 years, wow!
I'm already 80 years old.
80? 80, yes. Oh my goodness.
Do you want this here?
We were going back through all the vendors and I spied a very
Beautiful homemade teal turquoise type shirt. Maybe I'll model it for you
later. It's super beautiful! We talked to the whole family that was there at this
little tienda. Is it called something else if it's kind of like a booth among other
vendors? Tiendita? Vendidorita?
[Laughter] I'm just making stuff up.
Well, we're headed back now.
We just missed the bus, we don't even know where it picks up. So this is us trying
to figure out life. Like we normally do.
The bus picked us up at a random spot.
And thankfully, we made it back with no issues.
Yay!
Thanks.
We're back on the bus!
We paid nine pesos each and we're back on the bus.
It is now tomorrow. Today is tomorrow. And we are here
back on the (Jordan struggling to say "Chapala Malecon")
[Laughter] Oh my god. And we were
Pointed in the direction of some really good ice cream, so we're gonna go check it out.
Do you want to try it? No, that's okay.
What do you recommend of all the options?
Do you like ice cream with milk or water?
It doesn't matter. Piña colada is a good flavor.
Small cup of piña colada.
Just piña colada or do you want another flavor?
Maybe half piña colada, half elote.
15 pesos for a small glass.
This piña colada is good! We didn't get to tell
You this yesterday, but I bought this shirt that I'm wearing right now. Shirt /
Dress. I'm wearing shorts under it because it's a little on the
short side. [Laughter] And I think it's considered a dress, she thinks it's a shirt.
In any case, it's very
beautiful! Made here in Mexico. 100% algodon, cotton? Or does
Algodon mean cotton? I forget. Anyway, it was 220 pesos, I negotiated
down to 200. And I'm very happy with it, it's very comfortable and well-made!
Ahh! When you do this, I have to hold myself up, or else I'll slide down.
It almost seems like I can... If you let me go all the way down, I can actually hold you up.
Somehow. So again, we thought this was only an Easter Sunday thing,
that they have all these rides and stuff here for kids, but it
Seems like they have them all the time. Just, maybe, some of them are only open on
the weekends or something. But you can go down the slides, you can swing, you can do
the teeter totters, and poke a hole in your pants like Jordan did.
[Laughter] So right now we're
walking down the malecón. It's pretty substantial! Like this is much bigger
than the Ajijic Malecon. But over to the right, we have those shops that we were showing
you earlier. And over to the left is the lake. But there's tons of rides, lots of
vendors and stuff. It's pretty cool here!
There's a ton more to do here, it seems
like on your average day than the malecon Ajijic. So a great place to
Bring the kids. Great place to like window shop and kind of look at all the
vendors and everything. Lots of restaurants, even restaurants along with
all the vendors too. So we realized we never really gave an explanation for why we
left Guadalajara. Someone did ask pretty recently like "Did we leave because we we're
burnt out, like we had done everything there is to do."
Absolutely not! There were still so many more things we could have done! Uh-huh. And
there are a lot of things about Guadalajara that I'm going to miss! Like
the kind people, and how friendly everyone is. The layout of the city is
great. There is so much to do and so much surrounding the city, so really, there's
not a lot negative that we have to say. Just at the end of the day, we're a
travel blog, and our goal is to travel through Mexico, and see as much of it as
possible. That meant we needed to move on. And yes, it's true we didn't go very far.
[Laughter] This opportunity popped up, and it seemed like maybe we should see what all the
fuss about Ajijic and the surrounding cities are about? Which is why we're also
exploring places like here, Chapala. And I would love to go to
Jocotepec as well. Maybe another tacotepec.
So we came here for a
week before, and we realized though, that in addition to us wanting to continue
our travels, there were also a lot of aspects about this small town Mexico
feel that we missed. Like little shops, and fruit markets,
And people selling things on the streets, very casually. And you do have some of
that in Guadalajara and bigger cities, but there's just like a different feel
to it, so we kind of missed that. And Ajijic specifically, there's
like a certain energy there. I feel like it's similar to San Blas (Nayarit), when we were
there. Yeah. Very true. There's just some - There's just a good feeling about being
there. So we understand why so many people want to retire in Ajijic. Those
are some of the reasons, and we would be very clear with you guys if there was a
city that we visited that we didn't like. Some of you probably can think of the
one city that we've been to that we did not really like. [Laughter] We're not gonna go into
that again, but yeah. So Guadalajara is great! If you're considering going there, spending
some time, we recommended it. It's an awesome place with awesome people! But for now, we
are going to be in Ajijic and exploring around. I'm curious though, do
you guys have any requests or suggestions of things to do in Chapala?
Or Ajijic? Or Jocotepec? Or any of the surrounding cities? There is a lot of
Pueblos Magicos around here! Let us know in the comments!
[Mariachi band playing]
Hello!
Can we sit upstairs? Is it the same restaurant? Yes. Yes!
So you may or may not be surprised to find out that we are, again, at La Casita.
La Casa de Molcajete. [Us struggling to pronounce "Molcajete"]
So if you're in Chapala, looking to have some drinks, we'd
recommend coming here instead of buying a drink from one of the many
Vendors on the Malecon. Because if you buy one of these certain entrees, you get free
margaritas! We were looking around at all of the different prices and how much tequila they put in them,
And it seems like you can maybe get a liter for 100 pesos,
With 3.5 shots or? Yep. Yeah 3.5, which seemed to be a pretty good deal
But not quite as good a deal as buying dinner and getting margaritas included when your
dinner is 90 pesos. [Laughter]
Alright guys, so we keep getting this question, like "When are
you going to do a video in Spanish?"
And we keep saying "I don't know, maybe
eventually." But we keep forgetting that we already have. But the thing is, when we did them, they
bombed! Instead of getting our usual 40, 40 or so views, they
Were getting like twelve or sixteen. So at the time, they were like
(Thumbs down) Laughter. As you can
Guess, by getting like twelve views, this was right when we started our channel.
But if you want videos in Spanish, they're tours we did of our Airbnbs, and
it's video numbers 6, 11, 16, and 20.
That was right after we crossed the border
into Mexico, and we had been learning Spanish for a little while.
Like maybe a year or so. But really, trying
to learn Spanish before coming to a spanish-speaking country.
Before being able to practice with anyone. That's
hard, it's really hard.
Don't judge us too hard! Seriously, please. Go check those out.
Or don't. You don't have to, it's fine.
Do it. No. [Laughter]
Awe! Hello!
We're going to give you food.
[Laughter]
Sit.
[Laughter] You!
Let's go and see if we can buy some dog food.
We have food for our pack. 20 pesos.
For a 420 gram package of food. About a pound.
40 pesos? 40.
Shorter or longer. However you want to do it.
Do you want a little bag or just like that?
No, we don't need a bag.
Thank you. Yes, you're welcome friend.
May it go well for you. See you later. Likewise.
We got off at the wrong stop and had to walk in the rain, but...
We made it home safe again. Yay!
The next day...
18 eggs = 18.6 pesos
Hello, we would like a portion of cilantro please.
There's no cilantro. Ah, there isn't? Okay.
It's all gone. Just the two.
24 pesos. ($1.27 USD)
Thank you. Have a good day.
Yesterday, if you were looking at any of our social media, you may have seen that
we were doing an "ask me anything" on Reddit. Well, it turns
out there were some issues with the moderators there. They took forever to
approve our post, then they deleted our post.
Then they reapproved it hours later. But
basically, they derailed the whole thing!
I don't know, we probably won't be using
Reddit again. It seems like they have their own agendas they want to push.
And the point that we're getting at, is that it seems like the moderators want
Certain messages to be going out, but ours isn't one of them. Saying that
Mexico is a safe, nice place. We had people commenting, basically saying how
dare us put out videos. How dare us try to say Mexico's isn't dangerous. Yeah, and to that
we say, we have about 160 videos that prove otherwise. So anyway, we will not be
on that platform anymore. After the whole Reddit thing, we spent a
couple hours trying to get that, trying to figure that out, because we thought it
would be a fun thing for you guys. And obviously, just expanding to another
platform. Well after that, we were like, you know what
screw Reddit, we're gonna do a live video for you guys. So then we spent a few more
hours trying to get a live video to work. And there's certain back-end
software you need for a live video, and we were testing out a couple things. But
what we tested, like either the audio was bad, or the video quality was bad.
It was saying there's gonna be a lot of buffering and stuff, and we didn't want
to waste your guys the time with that. But maybe if you have any suggestions for us,
We'd gladly take them, so that hopefully, we can do our first-ever live video.
We're going to test out some more software, try to get everything working before we go live
with it. Thanks for watching! If you liked it, please give it a thumbs up and
subscribe to our channel so you can see more videos that we are currently
putting out in Ajijic, Jocotepec, Chapala, and continuing our travels
eventually. And!
GONG THAT BELL!
So you get notified the next time we put out a video and we'll see you there!