Hello from Puebla! Today we're doing something a little bit differently. Why
is it just me right now? Well, I usually get up an hour or two before Maddie does and
right now I'm out taking Laska for a walk. Laska, say hi.
She's not gonna say hi. But what are we doing today? We're going to give you some life
updates, answer some of your questions, but most
importantly something we haven't done in a while, is take you along on our daily life.
So we're getting some breakfast at this local place in Puebla. It is actually, I think the
restaurant part of a cooking or, culinary school, culinary university. And it's
called the Restaurante de Aplicación Universitario.
Or RAU.
Or RAU and the university is IEU.
So there's a lot of letters here. But they give you a crap ton of food for like 80 pesos.
You get jugo verde, green juice, coffee, fruit with granola, bread,
And your main plate. So I don't think we're going to be finishing this all but this is a darn good way to start the day!
We found them for dinner last night and had a three-course meal with agua fresca
for a hundred pesos and everything was amazing! So we came back here for
breakfast. Tell you what, two meals there and I've left so satisfied both
times! It's like you're getting five-star service for a two-star price.
So we wanted to go to La Estrella de Puebla (The Star of Puebla) which is this huge observation
Ferris wheel type thing. We have been to a similar one in Vegas but they don't
open until 2:30, so right now we are in alley of the frogs. Which apparently there
is like restaurants, and shopping, and stuff. But no frogs.
And I think this might be the most gorgeous street facade in the entire city.
Although the architecture in Puebla City is really pretty!
This is especially gorgeous with all the bright colors and it's newly painted! Jordan: Yeah.
So we've been in Puebla for a couple days now, what are your first impressions
of it? I really love cleanliness of the city!
It's pretty clean everywhere, it's
colorful in a lot of spots of the city.
I've noticed there's a lot of honking
going on. It's very similar to Guadalajara in that way. In a lot of ways
actually. We were talking before about the prices being higher than many other cities.
What do you think? It seems like there might be a lot of business happening here. It's very
clean. It seems like a wealthier city than most Mexican cities. And like you
were saying, it's also a little bit more expensive than most. Not as high of prices as somewhere
like Playa del Carmen or Puerto Vallarta.
Yeah, yeah, not even close. It's still way way cheaper than where we came from
in Phoenix. But I think it's still higher prices thnn another comparable city, Guadalajara. Uh-huh.
Guadalajara.
So what else? A lot of people seem to speak English
here. There's been times when we've been given English menus even though we
didn't ask for it. Or without even saying a word to anyone in English. Exactly.
And what else? Like Guadalajara as well, there seems to
be a stark contrast between the new and the old part of the city. There's lots of
history, but at the same time, there's very modern and new buildings, and I
think we're going to see some of that when we go to La Estrella de Puebla right
after this! Yeah, I mean I don't have a whole lot of negative things to say about it. I mean, the
people seem nice. Coming into the city, driving in, it wasn't crazy like - sometimes
when we go into a new city, the way people drive is really unexpected or
hectic and it wasn't really that bad. This was the easiest big city
driving we've done in Mexico.
Yeah.
So we are in the Uber now, on the way to La Estrella, and it's about a 15 to 20
minute drive, and 60? 62 pesos. 62 pesos.
So, when we're showing you just about everything
we do in a single day, you also get to see all the errors we make. Well we
looked up on Google, it says this place opens at 2:30.
We took an Uber here for the sole purpose of riding this guy, and they
don't open until 3:30, and we can't hang around because we have a car appointment
to get to. Because I took my car in Guadalajara to get serviced and the guys
wrote down kilometers from the odometer instead of miles and my car is in miles. And
gave the wrong service, and basically the next day the service light went on. Yeah.
So we're getting it taken care of here but we don't have enough time to stick
around unfortunately. But this does look very cool! It cost 40 pesos and maybe we
could pay another 60 pesos to come back here [Laughter] another time. Or drive.
Unlike the one in Vegas we did, that one was about 25 dollars a person. This one
is two dollars. So we are at a Toyota dealership in Puebla City right now.
We're having to do all this in Spanish, to the best of our ability, which we did
not have to do in Guadalajara because someone spoke English there, which is
nice. But we don't know very many technical words regarding cars, so.
It's kind of tricky. So after this whole experience was
said and done at the dealership, we totally forgot to record anything saying
how it went, because honestly, I was really flustered afterwards trying to
explain all that we needed to in Spanish.
Even though we're getting on our way to
being fluent, it was still really difficult! And fortunately, everything is
great with the car, and they actually didn't do anything except for resetting
the system, and it was completely free.
Which I'm still astonished by. And by the
way, why are we Ubering here when we have a car? We get this question pretty
frequently. Well, we try to drive as little as possible in our own vehicle
just because the roads can be confusing, street - like
laws and rules, and just the way that people drive. So we try to avoid
accidents by doing that. Especially when Uber is reasonably affordable and we
choose to walk most places. And then another question we get asked so often,
which we've never officially answered on our channel but we've probably written
it out like 95,000 times is why am I always the one driving the
car and Jordan isn't? Well, our good ole tangerine mobile is actually my vehicle,
so basically, I want to always be the one driving it because if anything were to
happen, like an accident or any type of damage like bottoming out on all the
topes, which happens pretty frequently. I'd rather be the one to do it, so then I
can't blame Jordan for anything or get mad at him for it. And I just - you know,
that's just the way that it is.
Also he has to be in the. No, no, no. I have to be in
the car if he is driving so. According to Mexican law. According to Mexican law. So another
question we get asked pretty frequently.
Some of these times, it's asked in a very rude way - like "Well you guys must be
rich, wouldn't it be great if I could travel because I had rich parents or a
trust fund or something." And then other times, it's asked in a nice way
and we really appreciate it asking in a nice way. Because I get it, like if we
weren't doing this, I'd be curious how someone could do this. Uh-huh. But how do
we make money? Well we answered this about a hundred videos ago and our
answer has significantly changed since then, because our channel is a lot
smaller. Now, almost all, well basically all of our revenue comes from our
YouTube channel. Some is advertising revenue, some is from Patreon, and then
others are from affiliate sales. So basically those are our three main ways
that we make money right now. We also get opportunities to do brand deals and
stuff but we haven't done any paid brand deals yet. Maybe sometime in the future.
Yeah, sometimes we do partnerships with companies or things like that, that
seem really cool. And just to clarify for anyone who's curious, you will never
see any of these in a video if we don't actually like or enjoy the experience,
Because if it ever came down to it, we would more happily pay for whatever it
was then lie about it just so they we could get something for free, cuz that's
not what we're about. Before we get into exactly how much we're making, I would
just like to say that in any normal social interaction, if you were to meet
someone, or not know them VERY personally, you would never in a million years ask
how much they're making. "How much are you making?" At least in the US. Or at least in the U.S. yeah
It might be different in other cultures but people ask this all the time.
I think it's so intrusive. And worse, people think they are entitled to this
information, so much that they would consider unsubscribing if we didn't tell
them. Very ridiculous. But okay, so how much are we making? From YouTube, we are
legally not allowed to tell you. Contractually, if we tell you this amount,
we could be banned from YouTube entirely. So, not gonna do that. If you want to know
how much we're making on Patreon, you can head right over to Patreon.com/tangerinetravels
and we have it publicly available for you to see there. Many
creators do not do this, but in the spirit of as much transparency
as possible, we have that public for you there.
What else? One thing we forgot to mention is
that we earn some money through PayPal. We don't advertise this publicly. Ever.
We've never mentioned PayPal until right now. But quite a few people have left a comment
or messaged us saying "Hey I would - I don't want to sign up on
Patreon, but I'd like to give you a little something, how can I do that?" And we send
them a link to our PayPal and we have it buried deep in the description of every
one of our videos. So occasionally people send us some cash on there. Which is very
appreciated, so thank you if you're one of the individuals who has
done that. It goes a long way to buying treats for Laska. Places for us to stay
at night. Medical care when Jordan gets stung by a scorpion. Things like that.
[Laughter] So it's very much appreciated!
What else, like a affiliate stuff, it's pretty much.
It varies depending on what people buy. Like we get, you know 17 cents or
something like that if you buy something from one of our Amazon links. That goes a
long way too! By the way, we've been walking around this super gorgeous and
fancy, outdoor mall, outdoor mall called Solesta in Puebla City.
And by the way, I'm sorry to cut you off but
the weather's perfect here! Oh yeah! It's really nice walking around outside. But
yes, to wrap up this whole what are we making thing. We do feel like we're
pretty transparent, especially compared to other youtubers out there who share
absolutely none of this. Their Patreon amount is private,
they would never go into topics like this. So we hope you at least appreciate
that but also respect that we are allowed to have a little bit of privacy
in our lives.
[Knocking at the door]
Who's that?
Who's at the door?
Is that dad?
So we just picked up the laundry. One
example of the city being more expensive than other cities - it was 22 pesos per
kilo to get our laundry done. As compared to other cities, we've seen that as low
as 11 pesos a kilo. But in Guadalajara, for example, it was 15. But
yeah, so we drop our clothes off, they wash it, fold it, put it in a nice tight
bundle. This is about a week's worth of clothes and it was six, six and a half
dollars. So about the price of going to a laundromat in the US, and you get it all done for
you. What do you have to say about this, Laska?
[Laughter]
She's always so camera shy! Laska!
What you have to say? You say "give me
belly rubs!" So we haven't really done any daily life vlog style videos like this
since basically when we were in Guadalajara, so you guys have to let us know. What do
you think? Do you like the style? Should we do more? Should we scrap it? Yeah it
didn't quite turn out how I was hoping or was expecting. We didn't quite do as
much as I thought we were going to. Also, it took wildly longer at the dealership
than we were expecting, and by the time we were done it was completely dark. But
anyway, if you like this let us know in the comments. Give this video a thumbs up
and subscribe to our channel! [Laughter]
And one more thing!
GONG THAT BELL!
So you get notified the next time we put out a new video
here's in Puebla City. And we will see you here in Puebla City!