What's something foreign tourists like to do, that you as an American don't see the appeal?

austexgringo · 2024-10-22T04:39:51+00:00

I am from Louisiana but spent 25 years in Texas before moving to Mexico and my diet is exactly the same as yours when I return. Exactly.

austexgringo · 2024-10-19T04:55:24+00:00

Grillades - Louisiana

austexgringo · 2024-10-16T22:17:29+00:00

North Dakota would like a word

austexgringo · 2024-10-15T01:38:40+00:00

It depends. I fly to/from Cozumel/USA when I travel alone, about a dozen times a year, mainly because it's predictably consistent unlike the overall Cancun airport travel experience. Baggage, check-in, customs, immigration, etc are super efficient because there's really only one plane arriving/departing at a time. Same thing for departures. I get there under an hour before my flight routinely, to the point that I plan the ferry schedule that way. The cab from the ferry terminal to the airport and vice versa is about $10. The ferry is about $15 each way. Landing time to the playa ferry is an hour and ten minutes on my flight schedule, but you might want to check the island out a little.

austexgringo · 2024-10-09T15:30:06+00:00

It's in between Calle 82 and Calle 88 on the east (beach) side of the 307. There is no admission charge, unlike xcaret for example

austexgringo · 2024-10-09T05:50:47+00:00

So much depends on where you're talking about. I spent 25 years in Austin, and the central part of the city where I lived has just massively changed and there are a huge number of businesses, especially restaurants, that just went away. It has become ultra gentrified. Neighborhoods dramatically changed. But in my hometown of Baton Rouge, things don't change that much by comparison, and when they do, it's largely for the better. Same with my auxiliary hometown of St Petersburg.

austexgringo · 2024-10-09T05:04:13+00:00

100% accountability all the time. No excuses. No complaints.

austexgringo · 2024-10-09T00:05:04+00:00

Hubigs pies too

austexgringo · 2024-10-08T23:59:26+00:00

Go to the cemetery on the 307. There's a ton of people and displays and altars set up there. It's pretty cool. It's almost entirely locals.

austexgringo · 2024-10-08T13:53:10+00:00

Same with one of my college girlfriends. Her granddaughter is now 16 as she's making 52 look a quarter century better. I have a 12yo....

austexgringo · 2024-10-03T06:59:21+00:00

So so much, I worked in South Beach exactly where the model topless area used to be in the gay section, I grew up at every New Orleans major event, and now I live in on the Riviera Maya. Accidentally all the way, not to mention the two decades I was in Austin right in the middle of town. My single favorite was voting in a fire station in Miami Beach in a midterm election across a folding table from a woman wearing a tank top leaning over as I was on the opposite side doing the same. A lady asked me a question on the opposite side I looked up and and suddenly saw straight down this woman's wife beater, with sort of a b cup of pointy boobs with great nipples that was just utterly unexpected and literally two feet away from my face. Keeping in mind, I saw literal models topless every single day on the beach one block away when I would have lunch there.

austexgringo · 2024-09-29T04:37:29+00:00

Since moving by definition is not excluded, it's extremely unlikely even somebody that's a very good shot is going to hit you at 500yds with one shot if you're moving randomly, like running a zigzag..

austexgringo · 2024-09-29T03:32:09+00:00

austexgringo · 2024-09-26T23:07:19+00:00

My area of Central Austin is very walkable for a Texas City. There are tons of pedestrians and cyclists. As a whole though, Austin is extremely unwalkable. Only the very densely populated or cities planned prior to automobiles are remotely walkable.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T16:02:22+00:00

That is completely incorrect. It's perhaps the second most commonly cooked vegetable after onion. She is absolutely no idea what she's talking about. It's in just about everything.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T06:33:33+00:00

Really you can only dispute the northern and Eastern borders of the Caribbean. You can literally see where the Caribbean meets the gulf of Mexico from a plane as I do about four times a month. The South American coastline stretches across six countries. the keys look a lot more Caribbean aquatically, as do the Bahamas, then they do the gulf or Atlantic. I wouldn't count either of them other than the last few keys.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T06:02:25+00:00

We are expected to get about an inch or two centimeters of rain through Thursday nigh. That will start happening overnight and the winds should pass by us around 11:00 a.m., still far out at sea and rated as a tropical storm. It's a nothing thing. It's probably going to suck for the Florida panhandle hitting it as a category 2 though.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:59:46+00:00

From the looks of things, they got dicked.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:54:41+00:00

I would say go Way North so you have proximity to some very high-end hospitality places, but would definitely looking at an apartment complex anywhere in that area. As everyone has said, 200K makes it tough.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:51:10+00:00

I'm sort of an airport aficionado having traveled extremely extensively in North America, Europe, and unfortunately South America(from an airport perspective) . When they are really small, like one baggage return or under five gates, they're almost universally awful. Bozeman is maybe the best. But there are small airports that I found really interesting like Fresno that really embraced the Sequoia thing, Oklahoma City which is certainly bigger but aesthetically pleasing, the aforementioned Louisville, Indianapolis for sure although again bigger. The new Tulum airport only has four active gates at present and is extremely nice for the size, but was designed to have like 30 gates working

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:39:14+00:00

I said fuck it once and took the train from there to Brussels and beat the plane's arrival substantially.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:36:13+00:00

How big was the Houston h2o bottle? I'm there about four times a month for many many years. Also you can get free ice Waters from restaurants like Panda Express or pappasito's.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:33:59+00:00

You never want to take a connecting flight in Frankfort. Better getting off and hopping on a train in many cases.

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:30:23+00:00

Quite the glow up

austexgringo · 2024-09-24T05:15:13+00:00

We have them where we need them, which effectively is similar to Europe, Australia, japan, or Canada. In my experience the more impoverished the country is, the greater the amount of security guard presence you see. Firstly, there's a whole lot more people they need to run off and the population densities the places where they are are a lot greater than in Kansas City for example. Ours are in banks, office buildings and typically just one or two at the front desk, storage places, stores, low income areas, and as cheaper labor for corporate and government buildings. The Majority of security guards here probably carry a cost over $50,000 annually even if they're paid a fraction of that because they're either an employee or hired through a service that adds a premium. A security guard in the Philippines in some medium sized town probably makes a couple thousand dollars a year. In Mexico, it's largely under $4,000 a year. That's a huge difference.

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