Drive along the hotel zone in San Jose and you might notice something: More cyclists. San Jose residents have been asking for a safe bike lane for years, hoping for something similar to the malecon (concrete boardwalk) that runs along the shoreline in La Paz.

Expats who have been here for a while, or anybody that’s spent some time in a third world country, know that burning trash is just part of how things are done in certain parts of the world.

This place is littered with foreigners Timeshare sales rooms say they hire foreigners because 95% of their customers come from the United States and, the theory goes, these visitors trust their own kind more. Ha! They’re the worst thieves.

Ho hum Of tourists visiting from Arizona, California, New York, Texas and Wisconsin, none had heard of the State Department’s advisory saying Mexico is a bad place to go.