That's never happened before my life.
Oh my gosh, you don't look Mexican at all.
You're so white.
But then when we came here,
it was like people were speaking a completely different version of Spanish.
If there's any trouble to get into,
she figures out how to get into it.
But ... Okay, there's a tree.
Hey, Tangerineys.
I'm Jordan.
I'm Maddie.
And we are Tangerine Travels.
So this morning we were walking to breakfast
and noticing the puddles all over the place
from the rain last night.
And that reminded us of one of these things
on the list of things that shocked us about Guadalajara.
And that is how much rain it rains here.
Well, it's raining in the rain.
When we first got here, we thought there really wasn't much rain here.
But then we got, a few months later, into rainy season.
Now, we're like, holy crap.
Oh my gosh, this is actually the most rain
that I've ever experienced in my life
'Cause I've lived in Phoenix, Arizona from the time I was born
and there's really only one time of year, the monsoon season,
where it rains a whole bunch.
But even then,
nothing compared to the rain here.
First of all, it not only rains almost every single evening,
but some of them, some of the time,
they're just torrential downpours.
It's crazy.
We can hear the rain right now
Yeah, this is insane.
We can hear the rain coming,
but we can't see it. -From far away buildings.
But we can't see it yet.
Oh.
Oh my gosh.
Oh my gosh!
Yeah, here it is, coming inside.
Oh my gosh, yep, it's coming inside.
Okay.
This is crazy.
Oh my gosh, it's hailing!
A whole bunch of hail out.
Holy crap!
Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!
Oh my gosh!
It's hitting the window.
And the street looks to be flooding.
Laska's roaring.
That's never happened before my life
where I could hear the rain coming,
but the rain wasn't here yet.
Have you ever experienced that?
No.
Oh, oh, more hail.
Oh my gosh, it's like ...
It's really hitting the window.
And we have an overhang here.
Yeah.
Oh, that one was huge!
Yeah, wow.
That was the size of a marble.
At least.
You wanna go play in the rain?
No, you mean you want to go boating?
So yeah, rain here in the city is no joke
because within,
I don't know, like 10 seconds maybe.
Then this hail, rain.
It's like flooding on the street already.
Laska is freaking out.
No!
Laska!
Nop!
Off the bed!
Oh!
Are you scared?
She's a mess!
Her hair is standing up.
Alright.
Oh!
It's okay.
I'll protect you.
Oh, don't worry.
It's all right. It's okay.
Oh.
Okay. It's okay.
Are you scared of rain?
Are you scared of the rain?
Más. Well ...
This is something I've kind of been surprised about Mexico in general,
but specifically Guadalajara
since it's more of a modern and advanced city
that I would think would have the infrastructure for this
and that is recycling.
And to be honest, I don't know if we don't know about it
or if maybe this happens at the
trash processing plant or something.
That they start the recycling.
but in most parts of the U.S. that I know about
have some type of separation of recycling
whether that's a dumpster or bin or something.
Here, I think there may be somewhere where you can take glass,
like glass bottles.
And you sometimes see people fishing those out of people's trash
so that they can make money from them.
But I was kind of shocked to find out
that a city of this big and this westernized
or however you want to call it,
would not have an obvious recycling program
or process.
So the next thing that really surprised us about Guadalajara
are the cheap mixed drinks.
Alot of places here where you can get a shot
or a mixed drink for twenty pesos or less.
And traveling around Mexico,
that really wasn't the case.
It was almost always like 60, 70 pesos.
Which is surprising,
especially drinks that have tequila in them.
You would think they would be super cheap,
but not always the case throughout Mexico.
The next thing that kind of shocked us
when we got to Guadalajara
was the fact that there are so many white Mexicans here.
And just to give you guys some background on this,
the majority of my family is Mexican
and I've grown up with people saying to me and my family,
Oh my gosh, you don't look Mexican at all.
You're so white.
So I think I pretty much got that in my head
that if you were white, you weren't really Mexican.
So coming here and having so many people speaking absolutely fluent Spanish
and very obviously Mexican,
that was kind of a shock.
A cool shock though, because then I actually fit in
being Mexican and white at the same time.
So as you're watching this video,
you'll see that they're not all negative or all positive.
It's going to be quite a mixture,
but the next thing, we thought was really cool
was the bike rental deal they have here.
Unlimited bike rentals for an entire year for 365 pesos.
One peso a day to get around town.
And you can use it as many times a day as you want.
So another thing we were pleasantly shocked to find out
when we came to Guadalajara.
I almost forgot where we are.
Is the amount of vegan and vegetarian restaurants
that are here in the city.
Because prior to this,
in a lot of northern states of Mexico,
there's a lot of seafood, a lot more seafood,
and then a little bit more seafood after that.
So not too many options for people
who are trying to eat a more plant-based diet,
except for maybe a plate of fruit.
So here in this city is a great place
to be eating plant-based and healthy.
There's lots of options for various types of diets.
And right now we're at Carne Garibaldi.
We wanted to stop here in the mall La Gran Plaza for lunch
and we were also curious if this place
was going to live up to the speediness
and deliciousness of the one closer to centro?
Ish. Yeah.
Ish.
Well, as it turns out it is faster
and I thought it tasted better,
but this is not a good example of a vegetarian or vegan restaurant.
In fact, quite the opposite.
Quite the opposite.
So we are piecing out of here
because there is a storm a-brewin.
It is rolling in dark clouds.
There's a scary man walking up behind me.
So another thing when we came to Guadalajara
that we were completely shocked about
was that in previous cities that we had visited in Mexico,
northern and coastal cities,
we thought that we were getting a pretty good handle on the language,
that we could understand most people,
and have basic conversations.
But then when we came here,
it was like people were speaking
a completely different version of Spanish
that we had no idea about.
And we felt like we regressed a lot.
It's going to be the same in the paper,
but, like, the information will be correct, right?
I don't understand.
Can you please repeat that?
I don't know the last word.
I'm sorry.
To be honest, we're not sure if that's
because there's a different dialect
or people are using different words.
We did notice right away that there were a lot of words
that we knew of that people use different versions of here.
But then, after being here for a while,
it kind of seems like it might just be a slightly different speech pattern
or perhaps people don't enunciate
or they talk faster or something like that.
So we were a little bit shocked after
feeling like we were getting a good handle on Spanish
to come here and feel like we had backtracked a little.
One thing we were really surprised about
was every Sunday they closed down the streets,
or not all the streets, but some major streets
and allow you to
bike, walk your dog, run.
Roller skate.
Yes, do whatever just go out and exercise
for several hours each Sunday.
And we think that's a lot of fun.
And I've been all over the U.S.
and I've never seen anything like this.
So we think that's pretty cool that they do that.
Did tell us that that's because portal O'Hara
does not have enough parks per capita
or something like that.
And so that's why they have to have
one part, most of one day a week
dedicated to exercise and giving people the space
to do recreation activities.
But either way, it's pretty cool.
Laska, what you doing?
So the next thing that we were pretty shocked about
when we came here are these giant glorietas,
also known as roundabouts,
that have like four or five, six lanes.
Everyone does whatever the hell they want to do.
It's a giant shit show and it's super terrifying.
Yeah, they do have lights in like the various portions of it,
but then also you can go through it.
And ...
And you can exit the roundabout from any lane.
Probably not really, but people do,
so you better watch out.
Yeah, so we were shocked about that.
I have never actually been more
scared to drive in any city in my life.
Why you see us taking Ubers everywhere.
One thing that's really interesting about this city,
is there's such a contrast between the old and the new.
There's super modern
gorgeous tall buildings with brand-new construction,
and then there's the older part of town
where you have buildings that are four or five hundred years old.
The difference between the various parts of the city
is pretty crazy in that sense.
So we have to laugh at ourselves for this one
because we did not realize the sheer size of this city.
So in the past, anywhere we had gone
if we pick a point that's like, I don't know, about an inch on the-
Laska!
She keeps walking ..
Oh, stupid dog!
That was my joke!
You stole my joke!
Now, you know how I feel
when you always turn the camera and steal all my jokes.
Anyway, so if you pick a point on ...
If we pick somewhere and Airbnb
that was about an inch away from
El Centro where that's usually the-
First part we want to explore.
Yeah, yeah, basically.
But here, we picked a spot
that was like about an inch on the map
and as it turns out it would take two hours
To walk to El Centro
instead of the usual 10 to 20 minutes in other cities.
So yeah, we gotta laugh at ourselves for that one
because this city is just huge.
So a lot of people speak English here,
but that's not the funny thing for us.
The funny thing is we'll have countless interactions
with a individual and then like a, in Spanish,
and then like a month later,
they'll start speaking English to us.
Out of nowhere.
Yeah, and we up until that point,
we had no idea they knew a word of the language.
Another thing we were pleasantly surprised to find out
is how much diversity there is
within the city of Guadalajara,
and then also close to it.
So within maybe like an hour to two hour driving distance,
we can go to places like Guachimontones
Tequila and a whole bunch of other really cool surrounding towns,
including Lake Chapala, areas around there.
Mazamitla waterfalls.
Uh-huh, so much stuff.
So if you're not really feeling the city,
it's just a short drive away
and you can find somewhere else cool to explore.
And if you've seen any of our videos,
you know that there's a heck of a lot to do
within the city as well.
From brand-new shopping malls
to the historic downtow,n El Centro area, giant th-
Bla, bla.
The giant zoo here and so, so much more.
And then, and then, this lady walking behind me.
But no wa- You're not actually walking. Being carried.
Why, why are you carrying her?
She wanted to be in the video. She told me so.
'Cause I- Don't, don't walk through the tall grass.
Yeah, you're gonna get all the ticks.
Come on!
I know what you want-
There is-
If there's any trouble to get into,
she figures out how to get into it.
You are not walking through the tall grass.
You're not getting ticks.
Do you understand?
Okay, so we realized
that some of these things might not be,
"Oh my gosh, crazy, shocking,"
but when you come from a different place,
a different city, a different state, a different country,
even the smallest things can be a little bit like ...
Okay, there's a tree.
Even the smallest things can kind of be a big deal
to get used to
and these were just some of the things
of the many many things that we've had to get used to
and that we thought were like,
Oh, that's kind of interesting you're notable or ...
I'm gonna run into something.
At the very least, they were all a surprise to us.
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