- I'll say I was wrong and I've changed my mind.
I would.
(somber music)
Hello, Tangerinies from Queretaro, Mexico.
Since our breakup a lot of you have been asking,
hey, what's going on with Laska?
We haven't seen her in a video forever.
Who's keeping her, who she's staying with?
I've had Laska since she was just six weeks old.
She was just a white little fluff ball,
had no color on her whatsoever other than white.
Since she was my dog before
she's been living with me since the breakup.
And a lot of you have been asking,
hey, well, who's keeping the car?
Well, the car was Maddie's so she's keeping that.
But Laska, will you say hi to the people?
Nope?
Okay.
She's tired.
I haven't told you guys this,
but I actually have a live-in maid.
She works every single day,
and you know how much I pay her?
Nothing.
And she works without complaints.
Her name is Flo Ho.
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A little bit ago I dropped Maddie off at the bus station.
If you're wondering, hey,
like we've had two Jordan videos in a row,
well where's Maddie?
Well, she's taking about a month break
off Tangerine Travels.
That's the plan anyway.
Because she really got a lot of hate
after her recent Vegas video.
So we're hoping that a little bit of a break will be good
to refresh the batteries,
get in a little better mental state
and hopefully be able to continue on with Tangerine Travels.
That was really tough for her.
Anyway, I'm on my way to the gym now.
So I will see you there in a little bit.
(somber music)
I go to this gym here in Queretaro called Seven Days Gold.
I have the membership where it gives me access
to all the locations,
but today I'm at the location at this mall
called Paseo Queretaro.
Today's workout is chest, triceps, and shoulders.
So let's get started.
If you're like, why is he wearing a mask at the gym?
It's because unfortunately that's still required here
for really most indoor places.
So yeah, if I want to work out here
I gotta to wear a mask.
For my first exercise today.
I'm doing dumbbell bench press,
but after each set I'm raising up the bench one notch.
So I like, increase it
until it gets pretty close to vertical.
And then you're working very much your shoulders at the top
and then all the way back down.
So it ends up being nine sets total for my first exercise.
So I just go to the gym to lift weights,
but in case you're curious
they have a pool up here in the bathrooms,
they have a sauna and a steam room,
they also have various rooms where they have classes
like pilates dance classes, spin classes
and things like that.
All right, so I just finished up with my workout.
I didn't show you most of it
because I don't want you getting bored.
After all, this is a travel channel
about life in Mexico and all that.
So now I'm going to get changed
and then I have to run a couple errands.
Something I wasn't accustomed to in the US
was having to pay for parking at a lot of places,
like just about every mall,
probably every single mall here in Queretaro
charges for parking, but most give you two hours free.
So usually I don't have to pay for parking here
as long as I'm not eating and shopping
in addition to going to the gym.
But I just take my ticket and put it in the machine
before I go to my car.
So if I were over the two hour time limit,
I would have to put coins or bills into the machine
or pay through the app, but I was under it.
And now I have 15 minutes to leave.
There's a few things I need to pick up today,
including like a flea, tick, and heartworm treatment
for Laska.
So I'm here at Sam's Club now.
Maddie and I actually have a membership
to both Sam's Club and Costco here.
They're about 500 pesos a year each.
And I know for sure for Costco,
you can go to any Costco in the world with that membership.
I think it's the same for Sam's Club,
but I'm not 100% sure on that.
I'm not seeing the flea and tick treatment here today,
but I did get Laska cause some treats.
But man, this place is busy today.
Wow, I've never seen it this busy
and the parking lot's super full.
A lot of people are curious what the differences are
between a Costco here in Mexico and a Costco in the US.
Well, I'd say about 50% of products are the same
and the prices on most stuff are about the same.
One big difference here is that all the prices here
include tax, a 16% sales tax.
But the other half of the products,
well, those are just more so catering towards like,
the local market, what Mexicans buy.
I have been looking for bully sticks for Laska forever.
And I've been waiting for Costco to have them
and I finally found them here.
I haven't seen flea and tick treatment though,
but I'm going to get these for sure.
They're 399 pesos,
and it's a six pack of 12 inch bully sticks.
One big cultural difference between Mexico and the US,
and this doesn't just apply to Costco
but any store that uses carts,
when you're done after you put the stuff in your car,
you leave it in the parking lot.
There are no cart bins to bring your carts to,
almost no stores have them.
Whereas in the US leaving your cart
in the middle of the parking lot, that's considered rude.
But here at all like, Mexico stores,
whether it's Costco, Sam's Club,
Walmart, whatever, or some grocery store,
they're going to have employees whose sole job
is to go around the parking lots, gathering all the carts.
Laska, good to see you. (Laska barks)
Good to see you.
Oh, your ears are still back.
Laska, do you want to go for a car ride to the dog park?
(Laska click-clacking)
Yes or no?
Do you want go to the dog park?
(Laska barks)
Okay, yeah? (Laska barks)
Alright.
Okay, right now? (Laska barks)
Okay, okay, let's go.
There are several dog parks
throughout the city of Queretaro,
but today we're in the suburb of Juriquilla
in the neighborhood of Santa Fe.
They have a nice dog park here.
So we like to come here occasionally.
Laska always has to go meet all the humans.
The dogs are a secondary priority.
Laska, did you have fun at the dog park?
(dog yipping)
I got you a treat at Costco.
Do you want a bully stick?
You love these things.
It's been a long time.
Come back here, they want to see.
(Jordan laughs)
I love bully sticks as dog treats for Laska,
because, well first of all,
there's a lot of treats that she doesn't like,
like if she gets a raw hide bone,
she'll chew on it for 30 seconds and then never again.
But bully stick, she loves them and they last a long time
and they're healthy.
What do you think Laska, do you approve?
She has her whole pile of toys here on her spot. (laughs)
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For dinner I came to this place called Ray Del Kebab.
It's in Centro.
I've never been here myself,
but it's super highly recommended.
I was a little surprised when I got here,
because it's not just this restaurant,
you walk in and there's a bunch of tables,
but you're surrounded by,
I dunno, six or 10 different restaurants
and you can order from any one of them.
I wanted to try something different.
So this is Lebanese food.
I'm really not familiar with Lebanese food at all.
I've tried like, falafel and hummus,
but really I know very little of this menu.
So to try as much as I could,
I got this Plato Libanes
which has a bunch of different options on it.
It has like eight different things on the menu.
So I think that'll be super cool
to try a bunch of different Lebanese foods.
A while back Maddie and I made a video
about why we would never live in the Riviera Maya again,
and although there were several reasons
the primary reason for that was the weather.
It's so hot and so humid, at least for part of the year,
at least like, in the summers,
in the months surrounding summer,
we just couldn't do that again.
So we wanted somewhere with like, a nice climate year round
where we're not going to be all hot and sweaty.
However, now that we're coming into the winter
in Queretaro, I have a different opinion, right?
I was wrong.
I'm going to live by the beach again. (laughs)
I think so, because like, I grew up in Minnesota
where it was freezing.
Like northwestern Minnesota, where it's totally flat,
super windy, and incredibly cold.
Well, as soon as I graduated high school
I moved to Arizona because I couldn't stand the weather,
especially in the winters there.
I would much rather be hot than cold.
And now that we're getting into the cooler temperatures,
the cooler months here in Queretaro,
I am freezing every day, especially in the mornings.
And when we got here
in one of the hottest months of the year,
and one of the reasons why we chose the house that we did
is you walk in there, you walk in the front door,
and the house is noticeably cooler than it is outside,
like way cooler, 10 or 15 degrees cooler
because the home is made of stone and like,
18 inch thick, I'm not even kidding, I measured it,
18 inch thick cement walls.
So like you walk in and it's just like, totally different.
However, the problem is now that it's colder months,
it's cold outside and it's still 10 degrees cooler inside.
So I'm freezing my ass off the whole time.
I've bought a heater at Costco
and I've had that thing running nonstop, but I'm still cold.
So I've said before that I could not do
another summer at the beach in Mexico.
Well, I don't know if I can do another winter
in central Mexico.
So here's my ideal Mexico life.
And this is what it's going to be here on forward, I think,
is I'm going to spend the winters at the beach,
I don't know where that's going to be.
And then I'm going to spend the summers
somewhere in central Mexico in the highlands
where it's really nice weather.
Because look, yeah, I'm kind of a weenie
but I just like nice weather. (laughs)
So as for that video,
like why I'd never live in the Riviera Maya again,
I'll say I was wrong and I've changed my mind.
I would.
In the winters. (chuckles)
Okay, well my food just arrived
and I'm super excited to dig in.
Usually I try to eat something right after the gym,
like to get protein in me,
to help my muscles recover and whatnot.
However, I haven't eaten anything and it's been hours.
So that's no good.
But I'm going to dig in,
I'll start with some hummus and whatever in the middle here.
Mmm.
Actually I don't know if that was hummus,
that might've been something else.
I think hummus is on the other side of the plate.
(energetic music)
Yeah, there's a hummus and a hummus imposter.
I don't know what that is.
Both are good though.
All right.
Well, I'm going to eat a little bit more off camera
and then I'll report back to you shortly with my thoughts.
So I thought Ray Del Kebab was good.
I enjoyed my meal and I'd go back there.
But honestly, I can't say whether or not
that was good Lebanese food.
The reviews on Google said it was awesome Lebanese food,
but I have nothing to compare it to.
So I would have to try others to be able
to say anything positive or negative about that
other than, yeah, I enjoyed my meal.
I've become such a wuss when it comes to cold weather.
What's the current temperature?
Like right now I'm freezing.
- [Phone] It's 64 degrees outside.
- But it's still 64 degrees and I'm in jeans and a T-shirt,
so I shouldn't be that cold, but this is too cold for me.
That's why I gotta be at the beach.
I'll be at the Mexico beach next winter. (laughs)
Oh and by the way, I'm going back to the beach soon
because I really enjoyed it
and there was a lot more things that I wanted to do there
that I didn't get to do.
I wanted to show you guys this awesome little bar in Centro.
It's one of my favorites in the city.
It's called Mestizo.
On this side of the bar
they have all kinds of different alcohols,
but they're all from Mexico.
And over here, if you're a beer drinker
they have a bunch of beers on tap.
It's a really cool place to come and get awesome drinks.
And honestly, not very many people know about them.
So they're super under appreciated.
So if you want a good drink, come to Mestizo.
The drink I ordered is a Nixtamal sour.
It's like a whiskey sour,
but with their Mexican whiskey here.
Really, really good.
I love that the drinks are always served in unique way.
But usually on a lotteria card.
It's like a very typical Mexican game,
It's like Mexican bingo for kids.
I was the first one between Maddie and myself
to come to Mestizo.
And after coming here,
I knew for sure she was going to love it
so I told her about it,
and this has been a frequent spot for her as well.
But every time I come, I order some drinks
but then I always end up trying more than what I ordered
because, I don't know, they like to make extra drinks here.
So they brought me out a Ron fashion.
It's like an old fashioned made with Mexican rum.
And also there's a handmade Mexican chocolate
on the top as well.
Whoo, that is a stiff drink.
Good, but strong as hell. (laughs)
All right, now we're doing a little bit of mezcal tasting.
This is a Madre Cuishe.
I usually don't drink liquor straight,
but this is really smooth.
When it comes to mezcal,
I always like when they're from the plant Madre Cuishe
or Tobala.
To me, both those are really good.
To make it an authentic mezcal tasting
he just brought me chapulines or grasshoppers.
Okay, I'll have one.
It actually has a pretty good flavor. (laughs)
I'll wash it down with some mezcal.
After I turned the camera off last night,
we had a whole mezcal tasting,
tasting a bunch of different varieties of mezcal.
And Mestizo is always a great time,
great drinks, nice atmosphere.
I always like going there.
Next week I'll be back at the beach
because Queretaro is too cold for me right now.
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You know, Flo, I just wanted to say
thanks for your hard work today.
Great job, the floor looks nice
and now you can rest for the rest of the night.