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The Peoples Guide to Mexico Website Is Reborn

DavidE - 6-27-2012 at 01:43 PM

For too long it languished in a torpor. Now it is interesting, constantly being attended to and is not something that would compete with the Nomad site. There is no forum but rather a blog now.

http://www.thepeoplesguidetomexico.com

shari - 6-27-2012 at 02:11 PM

NOTHING compares to the Nomad site! right homeys?

BN ROCKS

captkw - 6-27-2012 at 02:15 PM

DavidE - 6-27-2012 at 02:33 PM

Jeez, not even sex, drugs & rock & roll?

You just made my day

danaeb - 6-27-2012 at 02:39 PM

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Originally posted by DavidE
Jeez, not even sex, drugs & rock & roll?


:yes::yes::yes:

sancho - 6-27-2012 at 03:11 PM

I started going to Mex in the 70's, surfing the
Ensenada area. But not until I looked thru
a copy of Peoples Guide to Mex in the early
80's did I began traveling most of Mex for
30+ yrs., to me Carl Franz set me off on this
path, kinda of a mentor,
I thank him for it. His book is legendary,
and I believe predates anything BN, David E,
what was that fond Mex slang nickmane Carl
tagedd you with? It escapes me

prorader - 6-27-2012 at 03:24 PM

Looks ok but to big to much information, I have lived on the gulf I have lived in Lake Chapala, in San Jose de Gracia, and now will live in Punta Banda. The information that interests me is where I am moving, I could care less what is going on in Mexico City, or Cancun, I understand that the puntabandanewsletter does a great job, just wish there was some more, it appears to be a free advertisement site for several resterants. OK I will go to these places but there must be more to the area. I was contacted today about a post about security in the area, that was better information to me then Mama's menu I cook a mean Gringo hamburger and fires my price will make the local places attack me. $80.00 pesos for a hamburger and fries, thank you for making my mortage payment at 100 pesos a kilo, a hamburger costs 12.5 pesos, add the bun, and the goodies, sounds like a rip off. we have sold this for 5 years at 30 pesos, Hamburger and fresh cut fires, fresh water free.

DavidE - 6-27-2012 at 03:34 PM

El señor Franz nunca me dio un apodo.
Carl Franz never gave me a nickname.

prorader I believe you are referring to a guide book like Lonely Planet or Moon Handbook when you mention Cancun or El Enchilada Grandote.

Hamburguesas que cuestan 30 pesos, me gusta. ¿Dónde?

J.P. - 6-27-2012 at 03:40 PM

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Originally posted by prorader
Looks ok but to big to much information, I have lived on the gulf I have lived in Lake Chapala, in San Jose de Gracia, and now will live in Punta Banda. The information that interests me is where I am moving, I could care less what is going on in Mexico City, or Cancun, I understand that the puntabandanewsletter does a great job, just wish there was some more, it appears to be a free advertisement site for several resterants. OK I will go to these places but there must be more to the area. I was contacted today about a post about security in the area, that was better information to me then Mama's menu I cook a mean Gringo hamburger and fires my price will make the local places attack me. $80.00 pesos for a hamburger and fries, thank you for making my mortage payment at 100 pesos a kilo, a hamburger costs 12.5 pesos, add the bun, and the goodies, sounds like a rip off. we have sold this for 5 years at 30 pesos, Hamburger and fresh cut fires, fresh water free.









You will fit right in with the Ex pat hustle crowd dont support the local resturants keep it in the family crowd that has its regular meeting every friday in Cantu.almost weekly some one is starting a new food hustle. COME ON DOWN.

pointdog - 6-29-2012 at 01:41 PM

WOW! Thanks for the link. Traveling through mainland Mexico in the early '70s it was required reading. Truly an iconic tome. Got a chuckle about BN predating it. No Way. :rolleyes:

[Edited on 6-29-2012 by pointdog]

El Jefe - 6-29-2012 at 03:55 PM

This from the 1974 second edition PEOPLES GUIDE TO MEXICO that I keep on the shelf.

"It is not about which hotels to stay in, or the most interesting towns to visit. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to find out those things for yourself"

This book ignited my dreams of travel to Mexico as a student in Berkeley in the mid 70's. Not many Econ majors took intensive Spanish classes in those days like I did. To this day I use the Spanish a lot more than my knowledge of monetary and fiscal policy.

"wherever you go......there you are!"

[Edited on 6-29-2012 by El Jefe]

DavidE - 6-29-2012 at 04:03 PM

That second edition is worth some dinero. The first edition with the square page corners sells for a lot of money. I assume yours has the white cover with the immigration queue?

Peoples Guide to Mexico

Skipjack Joe - 6-29-2012 at 04:04 PM

A lot of articles written by a "El Codo".

Alm - 6-29-2012 at 04:15 PM

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Originally posted by DavidE
Hamburguesas que cuestan 30 pesos, me gusta. ¿Dónde?

En Estados Unidos perhaps. Whether we like it or not, Baja have become a gringolandia, with prices often higher than NOB, because in Baja you are not NOB, so you have no choice. Like a double or triple cost of anything in airport shops.

El Jefe - 6-29-2012 at 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by DavidE
That second edition is worth some dinero. The first edition with the square page corners sells for a lot of money. I assume yours has the white cover with the immigration queue?


Yes, although the white cover has yellowed with age.
I've read those stories so many times. Now living in Mexico we are creating more stories of our own. Life is good.

DavidE - 6-29-2012 at 05:32 PM

I believe that was the purpose of the book El jefe: An inspiration and not a template.

Gary Jennings is my favorite México hammock novelist. I mean, mushrooms, incest, cannibalism, killer purple dye snails -- White streak down hair due to scorpion sting, eunuchs, still beating hearts flopping town pyramid steps; what a book to read while stretched out on a beach munching tamales de elote and slurping young pulque!

David K - 6-29-2012 at 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
A lot of articles written by a "El Codo".


I thought David Eidell told me El Codo WAS his nickname! No, I know he did! Right Dah-veed? :light:;D:yes:




Tom 'El Jefe' and 'DavidE' at my Viva Baja-2 party in San Clemente, 2001.

See many others who are now Nomads, back then: http://www.vivabaja.com/vivabaja2/index.html

David K (Kier) aka 'DrDrip'

mcfez - 6-29-2012 at 07:42 PM

Love your nickname over there at the link you supplied :-)

As much I have been to your website...I have never come across these pages. Looked like there was a lot of fun......
Quote:
Originally posted by David K
Quote:
Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
A lot of articles written by a "El Codo".


I thought David Eidell told me El Codo WAS his nickname! No, I know he did! Right Dah-veed? :light:;D:yes:




Tom 'El Jefe' and 'DavidE' at my Viva Baja-2 party in San Clemente, 2001.

See many others who are now Nomads, back then: http://www.vivabaja.com/vivabaja2/index.html

David K - 6-29-2012 at 07:57 PM

Well, that was an email address I once had because my customers said I could fix their 'sick' drip irrigation systems. I didn't think of it as a V.D. thing, so to avoid confusion as to my profession, I dropped the drip (drdrip) email! LOL:rolleyes:

DianaT - 6-29-2012 at 08:18 PM

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Originally posted by El Jefe
This from the 1974 second edition PEOPLES GUIDE TO MEXICO that I keep on the shelf.

"It is not about which hotels to stay in, or the most interesting towns to visit. The purpose of this book is to teach you how to find out those things for yourself".......

"wherever you go......there you are!"



Oh how I love our copy of that book and how I love that quote.

Many times on this forum I think the idea, beauty and excitement of self-discovery is squashed and lost when way too many details are shared.

Diana T

captkw - 6-29-2012 at 09:38 PM

HOLA,good word's...myself, have never been lost,,as I'm always going on...three types of people..1st..people that make things happen...2nd..people who watched things happend...3rd...people who wonderd what the f--k happend!! please excuse my f word..I do not mean to be disrespectful in any manner......and there two types of folks...folks that give!!! and folks that suck!!! K & T

DavidE - 6-30-2012 at 06:56 AM

I believe you will find El Codo over at the People's Guide to Mexico website. DavidE on the other hand is presently in Baja California Sur, just enjoying the heck out of cooler summer weather and watching his garden grow Jack-And-The-Beanstalk.

About The People's Guide website. It is now being run by Felisa Rosa Rogers, Steve Rogers' wonderful daughter. "Churpa" is a miracle. She is an extension of Carl, Lorena, and Steve. A living continuation of The People's Guide tradition. With her, the book and the website are going to continue long after we have gone the way of the dodo.

México is a huge country. To experience it all is like sitting down to a lifetime's million course banquet. The desert and the sea and the ocean of Los Bajas Californias make the two states very, very special. But personally, I am greedy, I want it all :-)

I just find it hard to believe that my beloved ride to La Paz, and San Lucas, in the territory of Baja California Sur is fast approaching fifty years in age. My pitiful words of advice are: Get out and do it all when you are young, healthy, and optimistic. Retirement is for nostalgia, and eating the dessert first.

sancho - 6-30-2012 at 12:43 PM

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Originally posted by David K
I thought David Eidell told me El Codo WAS his nickname! No, I know he did! Right Dah-veed?



DK, Thanks for pulling Davis E's nickname/ author name,
I remember both
Davids on the Amigos board, when was that 96-98?
El Codo, if I remember remember references thrifty/frugal
of which club I am a member

David K - 6-30-2012 at 03:19 PM

What I would enjoy reading from DavidE is about his adventures when he left Tecate, USA (where I last saw him, in person) and stayed in Mazatlan for a bit then disappeared for some time to tropical Mexico... Now, he is posting again here from Bahia Asuncion... How about it Dah-veed? You could write quite a story in the Non-Baja Trip Reports forum, here, yes?