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How To Retire Without Money
By Bob Belmont
CHAPTER 8 MEXICO
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By bus, it will cost you a bit less than $50 between New York
and Mexico City. From border towns such as Laredo or El Paso,
you can get bus passage for about ten dollars to Mexico City.
Remember, if you are on a shoestring budget, that there are
different class buses in this country. There are wonderful
first class vehicles, the same as our best Greyhounds. At the
other extreme are fourth class buses, primitive affairs held
together with bailing wire and scotch tape—although somehow
they get you there. Needless to say, these fourth class buses
are a fraction the cost of the better ones.
The Aztec Eagle, running between Laredo and Mexico City is one
of the best trains, bar none, on the North American continent.
Coach fare is about ten dollars, possibly a dollar or so more
these days. This train was made in Switzerland for the Mexican
government, is built of aluminum, goes like the wind, and has
every convenience including showers in the rest rooms.
Flying will cost you just about a hundred dollars from New
York to Mexico City, obviously less from cities closer by. If
you are going to the Yucatan peninsula, from either Miami or
New Orleans, fare is about $50. Yucatan is the most untouched
part of Mexico and one of the most fabulous places in the
world.
You can also take ship from just about any American port and
land at Vera Cruz on the East coast, or Acapulco or one of the
more northerly ports on the West coast. Check with any travel
agency on this, there are too many possibilities to list here.
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THE MEXICANS. Just as we Americans have had a misconception of
Mexico, thinking it a land of desert, rather than of fabulous
beauty, so we have had a poor picture of the Mexican people.
Possibly this is because the Mexicans we have come in contact
with most in our own country were the poorest elements to be
found among them. Each year tens of thousands of Mexicans
cross the border to work in our fields. Obviously these are no
more the average Mexican that our migrant farm workers are the
average American.
Mexicans, like ourselves, differ greatly. The educated Mexican
of Mexico City is a cultured, progressive person and very
possibly took his schooling in an American or European
university, although many Mexican schools are excellent. The
University of Mexico, just south of Mexico City, is the most
outstanding in Latin America.
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