Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: This is the true story of one family who sold their house, packed up their life, and decided to live nowhere on purpose.
[00:00:11] Speaker B: What absolute abnormal people would even conceive of something this ridiculous?
Two kids, two parents, six months, no fixed address.
[00:00:31] Speaker A: There are some people who are like, oh, that's so nice for you, and probably secretly in their head going, what the fuck?
Find out what happens when you stop watching the travel influencers who make it all look perfect and start living their nomadic life with kids for real.
[00:00:54] Speaker B: Did we name this podcast?
[00:00:56] Speaker A: We called it Trips and Giggles.
[00:00:57] Speaker B: Oh, that's right, because I was gonna say welcome back to Trip Noodles.
[00:01:02] Speaker A: Okay. So we were going to talk about Portugal today again, because we. We were. We had a lot more to talk about in terms of Portugal.
However, we just got back to our Airbnb after spending a night elsewhere in another Airbnb due to a maggot infestation. So. So I thought maybe it would be interesting, while this is all fresh in our mind, to talk about our first week in Mexico. What do you think?
[00:01:32] Speaker B: We had such good plans to, like, go through all these nuances of Portugal and make this. And then we're like, you know what? This is our journal, basically. So let's talk about Mexico.
Let's do that.
So the very first episode, we said, we're in San Miguel. They Allende, right?
[00:01:52] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: And we are here because.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: I have a family member, cousin who has lived here for 17 years.
[00:02:01] Speaker B: Technically, it's. It's your mom's cousin.
[00:02:03] Speaker A: My mom's, like, 61.
Him and his husband live here.
[00:02:06] Speaker B: Right.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: And then.
So I knew about San Miguel.
[00:02:10] Speaker B: Yeah. And so we have. And we have a resource. Right. We have somebody who speaks Spanish. They can help connect. And they were incredibly kind to leave groceries in our house, which was, like, fairly nice when we get in from a long day of travel. So I'm very grateful.
[00:02:23] Speaker A: Right. Yeah. That was awesome. And then, you know, one of the other families that we met and really clicked with in Portugal was planning on spending some time here this summer. And so when we were trying to figure out our whole trip after selling our house and they said, hey, we're going to San Miguel, I was like, hey, I have family members there. Do you mind if we just, like, tag onto your trip?
[00:02:49] Speaker B: That's true. Right. Most of the, like, the leg of this trip, as we go through this six months of whatever the hell we're doing, almost every section, with the exception of the Christmas markets, we will know somebody there. So we have some kind of a connection or a resource Or a person that led us to that location.
[00:03:07] Speaker A: Right.
[00:03:09] Speaker B: Yeah. So let's go to the next. Can I start? Okay, so I just, I want to preface this for people, just so we're clear. It's going to come out at least from my perspective, like, this place is terrible. Okay. Or at least. Yeah, maybe you'll catch it from me because you'll get some serious passion. Like, this has been the worst trip ever, obviously, the setup from the Maggots, and that's not true, but some shit has happened throughout this trip, a lot of which in our Airbnb, which not going to completely fault the owner, has led us to have some stronger opinions.
[00:03:46] Speaker A: And a series of unfortunate events that are probably just more coincidence.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Well, not all, because I will tell you the very beginning of this trip, I had a bit of a freak out and an emotional loss when we landed in Mexico City, so.
[00:04:04] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, right.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: So we, we, you know, we're already stressed. We had sold the house. I mean, just a lot of shit had happened really, really fast. There's so many things going on. We're trying to move our addresses and change things and make sure bills are paid and cars are sold.
[00:04:19] Speaker A: A lot of stress. Yeah, we went through, coming off of.
[00:04:21] Speaker B: We're coming off a lot of stress.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: Like high, high stress.
[00:04:24] Speaker B: So clearly, like me personally, I will speak for myself, had not exercised, was not doing the right things for my mental health.
And so I was on edge.
So how long was the flight? Four and a half hours, would you say? Four and a half hours in Maryland?
[00:04:38] Speaker A: Yeah.
Well, before we go into like a play by play. All right, I think that you should. I think we should each give like our overall impressions of Mexico.
[00:04:49] Speaker B: I want to talk about this airport situation.
[00:04:50] Speaker A: Okay, okay, we'll get into that.
[00:04:52] Speaker B: We're not. We haven't even gotten in the damn country yet. Let me tell the damn story, okay? Tell the airport for everybody else. No, let me tell people what the fuck happened.
[00:05:04] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:05] Speaker B: Where this has happened to us once in Europe, and I know this is a thing in places, but it came down to. And this is, this is. I'm going to tell my story here. When I have an expectation for something, and many times in the past it's been very unrealistic.
I have a tendency to be very frustrated when that expectation doesn't come to fruition. Okay.
So we took a long flight, which was not the easiest thing in the world to take a flight, and. And we get to Mexico City and we have a connection. Okay.
But they're ushering us in. Into Mexico City, and we're going through. There's a sign initially, you see, and there's a sign that says connections. And there's another sign that says customs. And we ask people, and they're like, no, no, no, go towards the customs. And I was like, no, we need to go to connections, because we go to customs, they're going to send us out of the airport. And I kept, like, feeling anxious about it. So, of course, we go through the customs line, answer the questions, stack the passports, and so then we head down to a second area, right? And there's this long line, and we end up in a booth.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: And. Yeah, we have to go to a second booth for our specific airplane.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: Well, we didn't even have our tickets.
[00:06:18] Speaker A: They didn't.
[00:06:19] Speaker B: Yeah, they didn't even have our connecting.
[00:06:21] Speaker A: Yeah, they didn't even give us connecting tickets.
Bizarre.
[00:06:24] Speaker B: Until you get into Mexico City to get the connection to go to bjx, which. Apologize that I can't pronounce what that airport is that we had to go to.
Anyway, so we go to that booth, they give us our tickets, and then they're like, no, no, go over that way. So I'm walking towards the people, and there's a stairwell or escalator upstairs that says connections. And they're ushering everybody out. These glass doors, which is clearly the doors that say, no entrada, you are going out and going back out of the airport. And I was flipping out the exit, and. And so I literally let Megan and the kids go. Like, I stood there and I was like. Tried to ask this dude, and he kept pushing me out, and I was so pissed. So, long story short, they literally sent us back out, and we had to go back in through security all over.
[00:07:16] Speaker A: Again, which was a nightmare because apparently none of our. Like, we had one small bag that we had brought with us, and apparently, like, everything in that bag had to be, like, taken out and inspected.
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Everything electronic we had, which, I mean, we have too many electronics. Phones, multiple computers, multiple iPads. I mean, every single thing was being inspected piece by piece.
[00:07:40] Speaker A: Yeah, we were holding up this massively long lock.
[00:07:43] Speaker B: My electric hair cutter.
We. We held.
[00:07:46] Speaker A: The baby was screaming.
[00:07:48] Speaker B: The baby's losing her fucking wall.
[00:07:50] Speaker A: She's trying to run back to where, like, all the security, she's trying to escape.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: It was screaming. And then. And then, of course, our Spanish, Embarrassingly, my Spanish is terrible, and so I can't communicate with.
Anyway, it just set. It set a very terrible stage for Mexico.
[00:08:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I just.
I didn't have the same reaction. I was just kind of like, okay, we're in a different country, and this is what we're doing.
[00:08:16] Speaker B: So there's just no reason for that. There's just no reason for that. You got off of a plane from another location where you went through significant levels of security.
[00:08:24] Speaker A: You know, I get that. But I think, like, some people, some places have higher levels of security, and they might not think that the security that you went through in whatever country you're coming from, because it's not just the United States, it's lots of other places, they might think, okay, the security that they did in those places is not up to the standard of our security. And so then, you know, I assume that that's why they do it, is that they want to put people back through security to make sure that everybody who's, you know, progressing on into Mexico is.
[00:08:59] Speaker B: I just think, like, if you get on a flight to a place and they're gonna do that to you, like, not give you connecting tickets and send you back through security, you should get, like, a big red cross or something slapped on your ticket, like, just so you know what you're in for. About to face.
[00:09:17] Speaker A: To be fair, we did not, like, research this. We kind of, like, we didn't, like, look into.
[00:09:22] Speaker B: That's fair. I mean, when I say we, I mean this. You're. You're on travel extraordinaire. So it's completely on your shoulders. Tell me what's going on here. Like, I, you know, I have other things that I cover in our relationship. This is totally your department.
[00:09:33] Speaker A: Well, listen, I just. You know something?
[00:09:36] Speaker B: I thought about the tiktoks. Right. Like, one of your tiktoks should have let us know.
[00:09:40] Speaker A: I didn't think about watching a TikTok about the Mexico City airport.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: Ins and outs of Mexico City.
[00:09:49] Speaker A: Next time I will.
[00:09:51] Speaker B: Please do.
Okay, go back to what you said. You want us to give our overall impressions of Mexico.
[00:09:57] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:09:57] Speaker B: Transition. Go for it.
[00:09:59] Speaker A: I mean, we've. Listen, we're only.
We've flown into Mexico City. We went to BJX airport. We didn't actually spend any time in the city next to that. And we're in San Miguel, so our. I think we should say, like, our impressions of where we've been, because that's completely unfair.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: You're right. You're right, you're right. If we flew into Bismarck.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:10:22] Speaker B: And we only stayed in one city in the US it's not fair of us to blame. To talk about a whole country. So. But you said impressions of Mexico, which is why I said, okay, impressions of San Miguel. Yeah, go ahead.
[00:10:33] Speaker A: Well, I think the small airport that we flew into, bgx, was beautiful. Like, it was very easy to navigate.
The.
We hired a car service, which was fantastic. They were super easy to work with to get us from that airport to San Miguel with a car seat, which, if you remember, when we went to Italy, we sat for hours waiting for them to bring a broken car seat.
[00:10:59] Speaker B: 20, 18, we sat in Italy.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Oh, God.
[00:11:02] Speaker B: When I ordered the car for Italy specifically, I asked for a car seat because we had actually read that there's not many car seats in Italy. And like, they said to me in car seat, and this guy shows up with no car seat, gets on a cell phone with a cigarette and starts yelling in Italian back at the owner because they couldn't get it done.
[00:11:19] Speaker A: Yeah. Hours later, they brought a broken car seat.
[00:11:22] Speaker B: Then two hours later, they brought a broken car seat they had to hold together with one hand. Yeah, that was a nightmare.
[00:11:28] Speaker A: So all I'm saying is that was a pleasant experience.
[00:11:30] Speaker B: This car service was wonderful. I think the issue that happened to me is, like, you have. You're severely scared that you won't have cash on you for a tip. And so you went to one of those damn exchange counters that just ripped the shit out of you. And I said, there has to be an ATM somewhere. And you couldn't wait literally 40ft to find the ATM by the nice guy who was waiting for us and then got a broom handle up your ass because you're anxious about it. But listen, that's part of the fun.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: So I'll say, overall, there have been some fantastic restaurants.
I've been really enjoyed seeing our friends and my family.
I think that there are some very beautiful places here.
[00:12:13] Speaker B: Those courtyards are.
[00:12:14] Speaker A: The courtyards are gorgeous.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: I'll say that in mind, but go ahead.
[00:12:17] Speaker A: I'm sorry. There's a couple of cool playgrounds. I think that there's some areas that it's not quite Portugal, but, like, where they've thought of kids, which is nice.
I. I am not like a subtropical person. Like, I don't like bugs.
I don't like maggots. I don't like.
I don't like.
[00:12:40] Speaker B: They're so cute and crawly. They're like little caterpillars, but they eat your flesh.
[00:12:44] Speaker A: I. Oh, my God. I had one night where I just. I read. I happened to read an article about how during rainy season that brings out the scorpions.
And I couldn't sleep. I Had. I had visions of scorpions crawling up the walls and there were. I have not seen the scorpion. But I. I just. All of this just. It gives me Ajita. So I will say that that has not been something that I've enjoyed, but I wouldn't say that's a Mexico thing. I think that's like, if I was in Arizona, I would feel the same way.
[00:13:19] Speaker B: Can we go on a slight tangent here?
[00:13:20] Speaker A: Y.
[00:13:22] Speaker B: Attention. So when I met you.
[00:13:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:13:26] Speaker B: A long time ago. There's always been kind of a little bit of a. Like a bug thing.
Okay. Like, just generally. And listen again, like, I want to. I want to say this and be fair. I have my things.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:13:37] Speaker B: I get super anxious about. Yeah, that is not bugs. So I get it. And like, it's irrational and it usually is fine. Right.
But like, for the longest time we were together, actually the very beginning was when you used to check mattresses for bedbugs. Do you remember that?
[00:13:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I used to have a phobia of bedbugs.
[00:13:57] Speaker B: Oh, significant. And then. Then you got bedbugs, which was a.
[00:14:01] Speaker A: Whole nother that I got the phobia after I got bedbugs.
[00:14:04] Speaker B: That was post bedbugs.
[00:14:05] Speaker A: I had not been.
[00:14:06] Speaker B: I was just mixing that life together.
[00:14:07] Speaker A: I didn't check the bed because I was traveling for my internship. I was like doing all these interviews to see where I was going to go after my post.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Notorious bed hopper.
[00:14:16] Speaker A: Yeah. When I was like, for. During grad school.
[00:14:20] Speaker B: And so you. So it was after that I felt like you always said a thing with bugs, though, because you freaked that out.
[00:14:25] Speaker A: Because when I was a kid, I lived in Oklahoma for a few years and I walked into my bedroom one night and I'm like, I don't know, fourth or fifth grade. And there was a tarantula on my pillow.
[00:14:39] Speaker B: See that, that. Okay. That's okay, though. Like, not okay, but like, I think that would freak most people out, right? Yeah, but like, there's a difference between that and like a, you know, I don't know, a dime sized spider.
[00:14:53] Speaker A: Listen, those spiders in Seattle were not dime sized. They were the size of tarantulas, but skinnier.
[00:14:59] Speaker B: Those were not tarantula. They're wolf spiders.
[00:15:01] Speaker A: Like, you could see their eyeballs looking at you.
[00:15:03] Speaker B: They're pretty. Those are. Those are pretty. And they're fast as shit.
They jump fast as hell. I'm just saying, like, our children were both very inquisitive.
And then you screamed at anything the size of a fingernail, and now the two of them scream Listen, a bee went within 20ft of our oldest child today, and she literally almost destroyed windows with the piercing banshee yell that came out of her mouth.
[00:15:29] Speaker A: She does pick up bugs like the other there. We did find a beetle the first day that we came into the Airbnb, and she picked up the beetle and carried it outside.
[00:15:39] Speaker B: So she's not a bee or a spider. It's a different story. Anyway, you had a bedbug phobia. I'm just saying that you've had a history with bugs.
[00:15:46] Speaker A: I don't like bugs.
[00:15:47] Speaker B: So then it brings you to the fear of scorpions. Subtropical weather is where we were. So you were saying.
[00:15:52] Speaker A: Yeah, so, like, areas. And we're in a desert, so I don't. I don't know. I really thought about that, but there are a lot of flies.
[00:16:02] Speaker B: There are a lot of flies is a bit of an understatement.
[00:16:04] Speaker A: There is a lot of bees.
[00:16:06] Speaker B: Yes. My goodness. The bees here. But they're revered.
[00:16:10] Speaker A: They are. And they're treated with respect, which I think is important because I know that bees are, you know, like, kind of becoming endangered. So that's fine. I personally don't want to sit and eat dinner with a swarm of bees around.
[00:16:24] Speaker B: You're not, like, a fan of, like, a low buzz?
[00:16:28] Speaker A: No, I don't want to have to sit and, like, worry about whether if I'm taking a sip, I'm going to be sipping a bee.
[00:16:34] Speaker B: Yeah. So our friend tonight, I don't know if we can name people, so I would have to ask her if it's cool. I mean, literally, the bee went in her beer, and she just kind of, like, looked at it, kind of tilted the glass, the bee flew out, and then she started drinking it again.
[00:16:45] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:16:45] Speaker B: No, that's not you.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: That's not me. No. I'm not a fan of that.
So what else?
[00:16:52] Speaker B: What else? I'm not a fan of Trump Subtrocket traffic. Bugs.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: Yeah.
I would say, like, our Airbnb looks is very beautiful, and there are some really great qualities about it. And I won't name anything so that, you know, like, you know, just when we talk about things we don't like.
[00:17:11] Speaker B: About it, we're not, like, badmouthing people. And I have to say, owners have been very responsive. They're so responsive. Like, it's not like when we. We lived in Seattle and we had, like, black mold, and we kept telling the landlord we had black mold and he did jack shit about it.
[00:17:22] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:17:23] Speaker B: That guy was a such a cheap asshole.
[00:17:25] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:17:25] Speaker B: But this is not that they're responsive to everything.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: Yes.
But it's. It's.
I mean, I could sit in the basement and fart and, like, you would hear it on the third floor. It echoes, like, everything. You can hear everything.
[00:17:40] Speaker B: Yeah. The other day, my body shook, and I was two floors above you.
Damn.
Now it's the, like. Like, Cordy was using her, like, iPad, right? Oh, sorry, Earl. Just using her iPad. And, like, I could hear the music, and it was, like, louder outside of the room than it was in the room. Like, it somehow echoes, like, right now if our kids were awake, like, all the way to the third floor. It's got this huge.
Where the stairwell is. Is the center of house, and it goes all the way up to the ceiling. Very modern, like, tons of hanging, beautiful lights. But, like, that. That center channel. I mean, there is no soundproofing at all whatsoever.
[00:18:18] Speaker A: I guess that's not really Mexico, though. That's just the Airbnb. Yeah. I can't.
[00:18:21] Speaker B: Actually, the places we've been in are much more traditional. Right. Like those more plaster, stone walls, arches, tile work.
Much more traditional. This place does not fit in.
[00:18:32] Speaker A: I don't think it's. We are really having to practice our Spanish, which is very helpful, because I would say a lot of people don't speak English. That's one thing that I've noticed, which I think is, like, not a bad thing.
[00:18:47] Speaker B: No, but, I mean, I don't want to jump on your thing, but, I mean, I think I feel personally, like, embarrassed.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:18:53] Speaker B: Like, I, like. I feel like I should know the language better.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: And so, like, I'm literally using Google Translate and trying to write out my phrasing to go order coffee when I go there, because, like, I don't want to be the person that's, like, you speak English.
I just feel like a dick. Portugal, everybody spoke English, so it was just, like, accepted. But that also forced us to kind of avoid the language. Whereas, like, here, every day, we're trying to learn something.
[00:19:15] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:16] Speaker B: So I think that that's been helpful.
[00:19:17] Speaker A: Yes. And people are very good about it. Like, they. I mean, I'd say most people haven't gotten annoyed.
[00:19:22] Speaker B: No, the people have been very polite.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: That's nice.
[00:19:25] Speaker B: But it's true. Like, I thought there would be a little bit. This was more of an expat community, but you really, like, you will go into someone. It's like, we had a night. We were at a restaurant tonight, and we were trying to speak a little bit of Spanish, and we. I said, you know, My Spanish is not good. And then the, the, our waitress was like, I don't speak English at all.
[00:19:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:44] Speaker B: Which is fine. It's not their fault. We're, we're. We're Mexico.
[00:19:47] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: We need to speak Spanish. But clearly we, you know, our Spanish is not up to snuff.
[00:19:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah. We're muddling by there.
I worry that we're not picking up on certain social things or that, like, we are not aware of certain social things. Like we hired a nanny, a babysitter for our kids, you know, while we're kind of doing stuff during the day, work wise.
And some things have happened there. Again, I won't go into, like, specific details where I'm like, is this okay? Is this a cultural thing?
[00:20:22] Speaker B: We're not gonna name, Listen, we're not gonna name this person or the agency. I think we do tell what happens.
[00:20:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:27] Speaker B: Because we're gonna address it and we'll end up talking about what happened. But, like, we have had some issues with that of like, I mean, we'll go specifics. One is the fact that, like, she's taken the kids into some random person's house.
[00:20:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:40] Speaker B: Like her mom's house. Or apparently the other day they just went to some random person's house, according to her oldest, to use the bathroom.
[00:20:47] Speaker A: I assume that the babysitter knows this playground.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: I'm guessing so.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: But like, they were there for like an hour.
[00:20:53] Speaker A: Yeah. Which, like, I thought they were going to like, play at the playground.
[00:20:57] Speaker B: We said they're going to the playground of the square. Like, we were not getting any information about, like, going to some random person's house. Which again, that may be a cultural issue, but, like, that's not okay.
[00:21:07] Speaker A: No.
[00:21:08] Speaker B: Even if it's a cultural issue, it's still like.
[00:21:11] Speaker A: Well, I'm just like, I didn't. Should I have specified ahead of time the expectations? Like, I, I think in America, I would think that there's like an unwritten sort of expectation that you don't take kids that you're watching to, like, somebody else's house. Do you know what I mean?
[00:21:31] Speaker B: What you do if you sell them.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Or like, you know what I mean?
[00:21:33] Speaker B: Like, you're selling your kids away. Like, you make good money off that kind of stuff, you know?
[00:21:37] Speaker A: Yeah.
And so. Or, you know, and then the second thing is that we have given money to the nanny for, like, food or like, you know, it's like, oh, while you're out, if you, you know, this is. We only really only happens like one, two days. Two days.
[00:21:54] Speaker B: Well, yeah, this is. This. I think the first one was. Seemed okay, because it seemed like a small trip. It was this. This on Friday.
[00:22:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Which is the one where I gave her basically $30 in US so 600 pesos. And she gave me back, I think, about 65 pesos. So she gave me back about three bucks. But my eldest said that they had two ice creams, and unless you're in Uruguay or you're in Monte Carlo or something, there's no way that two ice creams cost $27.
So there's something not right there.
[00:22:27] Speaker A: Right. So. And, like, my question is, is she expecting that? That, like, you're. Because we don't speak great Spanish and she doesn't speak great English. My question was, like, is she like, oh, you're giving me money because I'm taking the kids out? Like, it's like a bonus or.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: No, because I asked her for the change back.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: Right, I know, but I'm just saying, like, I'm. I'm wondering if, like, there's some kind of cultural thing here that, like, we're, like, we're going to give you this money, and we expect you to give us the change.
[00:22:59] Speaker B: You're. You're potentially right, and I'm not going to disagree with you, but I think that's the point. You're saying here is, like, we're not. We're not probably not aware of some of the cultural imperatives of the situation. But I'm going to. I'm going to do my best on a translator on Monday and be like, hey, can you tell me about what happened here? Did you expect that that money was just a extra bonus for taking them out? Like, I'm going to ask that question. I think it's a fair question to ask.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:22] Speaker B: If so, sure. Why don't we do what we do now, which is spend six hours in the house watching Moana on repeat.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:27] Speaker B: You know.
[00:23:27] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:23:28] Speaker B: Which is a tough month. I think it's not what we really expected. I guess I expected it again, unfair. My expectation was that the nanny would take them on walks and take them to the playground and spend time with them and do stuff, but they seem to just stay around the house and watch TV all day.
[00:23:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I mean, I think.
Yeah, that is, like, that is what they do.
And I mean, I think she is. Attempted to play some games or she does.
[00:23:53] Speaker B: She wants some stuff and she has a little bit, but I think, like, on a regular basis, they just end up watching.
[00:23:58] Speaker A: Well, and I also think, like, we've been Very ner. We were like up until this point point, we were very nervous about saying like, somebody we don't know, like, you can go out with our two kids and I think.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: But our concern was taking them the random person's house.
[00:24:12] Speaker A: Exactly. Which like was well founded apparently. Correct.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: That was. The concern is like, what are you, are you going to stick to the plan?
[00:24:19] Speaker A: Right. So anyway.
[00:24:22] Speaker B: What else is on your.
[00:24:25] Speaker A: Go for it. Do your list.
[00:24:26] Speaker B: Are you sure?
[00:24:26] Speaker A: Yeah, I think, I think that's all I can think of right now.
[00:24:29] Speaker B: Okay. You want me to go negative or positive first?
[00:24:32] Speaker A: It's your, your list.
[00:24:33] Speaker B: I'm going to go positive first because that's not like me. You expect me to be the person that says this is a big shit bag.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:39] Speaker B: Which is not coffee culture.
[00:24:42] Speaker A: Oh, the coffee.
[00:24:42] Speaker B: Off the charts.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: I only like coffee.
[00:24:44] Speaker B: We were in Portugal and I was just sad. And Lisbon is much better. We're in a very small town in Sintra and the coffee culture there was not good.
I lived off nespresso and sorry for people who like nespresso. It's shit. I don't care which way you want to do it. Maybe the centrifuges are better. My little mini machine was like me just grudgingly drinking coffee each morning just to do it. And that sucks, man. Yeah, if you're going to drink coffee, I want to enjoy it. So here are multiple roasters, multiple regions. They, I mean like the one shop we went to that has amazing stuff. They have some wild level like computer system and screen where they're doing all their like roasting and measuring.
There's a place near our house that just has fantastic coffee. So probably the best mochas or cappuccinos I have ever had.
[00:25:33] Speaker A: Agreed.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: Espressos, zero bitterness, floral, gorgeous, delicate. I mean, people know their fricking coffee here. It is a phenomenal coffee culture. I mean, even tonight our friend had a random cappuccino at a Greek restaurant. She's like, this is incredible. So it's just, oh my God, if I love the coffee here, I mean, I could stay here for coffee alone.
[00:25:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:25:59] Speaker B: Let's see, what else have I liked culturally?
I love the commerce here. There's a real support of just general commerce in the sense that like local businesses. Local business. Right. You can put a pop up shop anywhere you want to. You could sell anywhere. And there's people that wander around. I mean, I opened the door to our house and someone tried to sell me tamales and rugs and rugs.
I mean anything. And it's not pushy. It's just like you're there. I mean we're at restaurants, people are walking through. What was that guy that walks through the restaurants? He's trying to get us. Oh, vanilla.
[00:26:37] Speaker A: Vanilla.
[00:26:37] Speaker B: Natural vanilla. He's selling.
So I do like that. I like that there's not a licensure system that we know of. Well, maybe there is. I think people look the other way. But I mean you can get street tacos, street ice cream. I didn't see that one coming.
Street basically anything on these little carts from local grocery needs to any kind of like from. I mean different levels of food. So I love that. I think that that's super cool.
That park, Parque Juarez is beautiful. Basketball courts, people selling paintings on the weekends. There's laying out these unbelievable.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: Original art here is really beautiful.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: The galleries and the artwork here are off the channel.
What a cool art community. Art stores, painting stores.
I love that. I think that's beautiful. I like the cobblestone streets, the tiny sidewalks are tough to navigate. But if I didn't have an under 2 year old, I think it would be beautiful. Yeah, the food's been hit or miss for me.
So I've had a couple of things that have been phenomenal and a couple restaurants that have been what I would consider expensive. I mean I'm not gonna. This isn't like San Miguel's fault. So I won't blame this again. This goes to my expectations.
I thought things were going to be cheaper, like Portugal. Yeah. Peso to dollar rating, cost rating and maybe outside the city they are. But our dinners have like consistently for four of us cost somewhere between, I'd say 60 and 120 bucks for dinners depending on if we get drinks, what we do. But places like.
[00:28:12] Speaker A: Yeah, it's not that much.
[00:28:13] Speaker B: Meals are cheaper technically than some of the stuff in us is just nuts.
But it was more expensive than I thought in Portugal. I thought we were living like royalty and we'd get these incredible meals for like $25 for all of us. But here that's just not happening. So the cost spending is higher. You find better deals I think on like commerce, like little trinkets, the kids toys. That's cheaper. Like I've gotten them a bunch of different toys that occupy themselves. Fun stuff, 3D printed stuff glow in the dark. Random stores like that just pop up next door.
People don't use POS systems. They've got a calculator.
[00:28:51] Speaker A: Yeah. And a ledger.
[00:28:52] Speaker B: Like where they Ledgers. Oh my God. These beautiful, like they're Writing stuff in ledgers. I love the one I took Cordy to the other day. And we went in to get toys, and the two purveyors that owned the business both had calculators, and they kept coming up with different numbers when they added in all our toys together. And so they had to duke it out to figure out who was going to get it right.
And I'm like, I don't feel great about this. I'm doing, like, some mental math as the two of you are using calculators.
[00:29:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:29:17] Speaker B: But the toys have been a lot cheaper.
[00:29:19] Speaker A: And that one little store that only sells avocados, it's an actual store.
[00:29:24] Speaker B: You walk by, okay, this woman I found sleeping at least six times. But it's just avocados.
[00:29:29] Speaker A: That's just. Yeah, a bunch of avocados.
[00:29:31] Speaker B: Soda mente. Avocados.
I like the copper here. There's a lot of copper stuff. If you're into hammered copper. God, I'm such a dork.
Our sink in the B and B is emerald copper, and there's just a lot of copper, which is. That would be probably way more expensive. Us. Why? Because you don't see it. But here, there's a lot of copper, which is cool. I like this stuff. Made in Mexico.
So, like, the shoes we found today, multiple places, they hand make their own stuff, so getting coffee from here.
So look at me.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Look at you. All of those positive.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: All those great, wonderful, positive things I like.
[00:30:11] Speaker A: I think it's going to be balancing. I don't know if it will balance out the other side.
[00:30:16] Speaker B: It will. I think it will. You know, I mean, I already hit a couple of them. You know, I think it's expensive here. More to my expectation than I thought it would be. And we've been told that San Miguel is kind of.
Because it's becoming an expat community, because there's more. Airbnb is. They have 2 million tourists per year.
The prices are going up exponentially. So we kind of are getting hit with that tourist pricing, which you can see that in the. The hardening each day in the square. And some stuff is expensive, you know? Yeah, I'm not a subtropics person either. I think this is what sucks. Like, Megan tried to convince me in the past, two of her friends moved to Denver, and she's like, we should move to Denver. I love Denver, dude. Denver is so dry. It is such an arid desert. And I get it. There's mountains, there's.
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Yeah, there are, like, snakes and stuff there, too.
[00:31:10] Speaker B: It's a Desert. I cannot. I cannot personally live in a landlocked place. I can't. People are ordering sushi. Where the hell are you getting your sushi from? Who's flying that into San Miguel?
If you're flying it into, like, a major city, so let's just say, like, Las Vegas or something. Even like Denver. The. God forbid there's a major airport. You're probably flying commercial. You can get shit flown in each day. San Miguel. No, you're not.
You're not pointing.
[00:31:42] Speaker A: Because that fish has been sitting.
[00:31:44] Speaker B: That fish is sitting. You stuffed it in a what? A, you know, cooler and put it. Put some ice packs around it in the back of your, you know, Ford Taurus and drove it in air conditioning. So, yeah, so that is another fact. Like, there. And it doesn't get super hot here. It's been like maybe 80s and then nights in the 50s, but the house gets hot and it's warm and we have some giant industrial fans.
[00:32:07] Speaker A: And people just. People don't use air conditioning in the cars. Like, when we've taken Ubers a couple of times. They don't use air conditioning.
[00:32:13] Speaker B: Yeah, they don't use air condition.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: Like, just very interesting.
[00:32:16] Speaker B: Why use that? And again, this is the part where I have to check myself.
We're bougie.
[00:32:24] Speaker A: Coming from a very.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: We are used to being American and, like, comfortable, but, like, that's a bit of a shock. So, I mean, I don't expect this place to have air conditioning. But I'm more. My issue is more that it's dry and we're at 7,000ft.
[00:32:39] Speaker A: Yeah, that was a bit of an adjustment.
[00:32:41] Speaker B: I still.
What week are we on now? We've been here for about 10 days or so.
I still get tired. I'm still tired. I mean, you were proud of yourself. Like, you ran the mile tonight trying to catch us from the squares. You went back to get the rainbow umbrella you left by an atm and you're like, look at me. And you are. I think you adapt better because you're younger than me.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Me, I'm not that much younger than you.
[00:33:05] Speaker B: Younger. I'm younger.
[00:33:06] Speaker A: Like two years younger.
[00:33:08] Speaker B: You are three years younger than me. And we're different generations.
[00:33:10] Speaker A: For God says, please, let's not start that again.
We are nine different generations.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: So that whole, like, desert subtropic, like, I will echo your fly sentiment. I mean, we were at a restaurant and the food was fantastic, but the main weight station, this table, I mean, was inundated with bees and flies.
[00:33:31] Speaker A: Yeah, it was gross.
[00:33:32] Speaker B: So when they were like, Reaching underneath to get ice. You could just see the flies going around everywhere. And I'm like, oh, great. We're gonna, you know, contract some level of disease at some point.
[00:33:41] Speaker A: I know, I know. Like, and our youngest, like almost two year old, was like eating shit off of the ground. And I was like, she's. She's gonna get worms. We're gonna have to go and like deworm her after this.
[00:33:52] Speaker B: I think we're probably.
[00:33:53] Speaker A: I mean, she was eating dirt.
[00:33:54] Speaker B: Well, here's the amazing thing. And this is gonna be a positive.
[00:33:57] Speaker A: They haven't gone.
[00:33:58] Speaker B: They don't get sick yet.
[00:33:59] Speaker A: I know. Which I'm like, what?
[00:34:00] Speaker B: The Portugal, they got sick.
[00:34:02] Speaker A: You said it. You said it.
[00:34:02] Speaker B: They're sick multiple times. I think it has to do with the fact they're not around a ton of other kids, which helps dramatically.
But just saying other pieces of this that are difficult. I think it's.
I have a hard time with the traffic culture here.
So there are no stop signs. Yeah, there are no stoplights.
[00:34:27] Speaker A: No.
[00:34:27] Speaker B: There, to my understanding, are no laws when it comes to motor vehicles.
So people ride four wheelers, mopeds, motorcycles, no helmets. Nobody.
[00:34:40] Speaker A: Okay. Like there was a family with like two parents, a child, and like a dog all riding a scooter.
[00:34:48] Speaker B: Yes, yes. I saw six people on a four wheeler the other day. They were riding on top of the front wheel, back wheel, and two in the driver's seat. I see them sandwich the kids. So they'll be in a motorcycle. One will hold the handlebars, the other adult will be in the back basically having their ass run over, like ripping through a tire. And they'll stuff the two year old between the two of them and make like a baby sandwich. Apparently that's safe somehow.
[00:35:13] Speaker A: I mean, I guess, like, you know.
[00:35:14] Speaker B: I mean, pickup trucks with six people in the back. That's normal. Let's just put people in the back of a. And these roads are cobblestone, rough roads.
[00:35:23] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:35:24] Speaker B: Very narrow sidewalks, huge stones. You couldn't drive fast if you wanted to, but it's loud and there's no stop signs. And the buses, they don't stop. They don't stop. They don't stop for anybody. So you're standing there on the curb and you're hoping to make eye contact with somebody who basically waves you by but looks pissed off the whole time. As they're waving you by, they have the hand up in the air and then they vigorously move it forward towards their face.
You know, like, oh, fuck you, I'm sorry. I'm walking, you know, like, it just seems very much like pedestrians are in the way here. And they do. They blocked off roads around this main Ardenne, the square, which is nice. I think they should block off, like, 12 blocks all the way down to the Cool Market, which I like, all the way through the Arden. But the fact that there's this. There's so much traffic because people can't go fast.
[00:36:17] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:18] Speaker B: And there's like 8,000 kinds of vehicles on the road.
[00:36:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:36:21] Speaker B: It just seems like a place like, I'm glad we don't have a car here.
[00:36:25] Speaker A: Yes. But I would not feel comfortable riding.
[00:36:28] Speaker B: But I'm just like, how many.
How many people are getting run over? I don't know. I haven't seen anything as significant.
[00:36:35] Speaker A: Well, when we were in that Uber, the one day somebody almost got run over.
[00:36:39] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, Our Uber driver.
Like, we had to take an Uber at one point, literally hit a dude with the mirror of his car because he wasn't crossing the road fast enough. And I could looked up his face in the mirror and he was like, yeah, I got him. It was like he swatted a fly. You know, like, give a sense of satisfaction.
[00:36:57] Speaker A: Well, I was probably also your reaction because you're like, oh.
[00:37:00] Speaker B: I was like, oh.
Cordy's like, what happened? What happened? What happened? I was like, this guy just whacked the dude with a mirror and he looked, like, satisfied, like he had killed a pest.
End of the nuisance.
So, yeah, the driving culture here throws me off.
[00:37:16] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:16] Speaker B: I think the. Like, I'm always. I mean, we live in a place like this, but when we have, like, a. A meal that I think is expensive and it's shit.
[00:37:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:37:24] Speaker B: Like we did the other night. So, of course, like, you know, this happens in every city. There's people trying to be like, ah, it's the best rooftop in all of Mexico.
[00:37:33] Speaker A: Here's some white people walking down the street.
[00:37:35] Speaker B: Look at these gringos. Let's bring them in.
[00:37:38] Speaker A: You should come into this restaurant.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Like, I fall for this because I. To me, I think about the kids because we're in a small space and the food is good and they're freaking out. I'm like, whatever. So we go to these rooftop bars and the last one where the kids can run around. Yeah, they need to run around. And we had the last one there. Both of our food just sucked. I mean, I just think it sucked for the amount of money we spent. So I think, like. But I've also had some really good food, so it's Kind of a balance between the two, you know?
[00:38:04] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:38:08] Speaker B: I. I like this will get to our point, which is where we're trying to get to, because we need to come back to these maggots. I like our Airbnb because we have an office space. So the bottom floor used to be, like, an office for a photographer. Right.
And so Megan and I can work here, which is really nice. We both need to work. But the.
I would say there's a. There's a laundry room, and the laundry room is outside.
So if it rains, you have to have on, like, shoes so you can walk outside where it's wet. And I've had my clothes get rained on.
[00:38:40] Speaker A: I just don't understand how, like, the washing machine, it's electric. Like, how does that. How does that.
How is that. I mean, clearly there's lots of places here where the laundry facilities are out on a rooftop, but I just don't understand. Yeah, I saw it on a. I saw it on a bunch of the Airbnb I was looking at. Like, it's a thing.
Yeah. But I. So I don't understand how they don't get ruined, how the machines don't get ruined.
[00:39:09] Speaker B: I don't. I mean, I couldn't tell you that either, but interestingly enough, multiple times I tried to put out, like, delicates because I don't want my clothes to get ruined, and they've been rained on in the afternoon. But, like, I have to go switch over the laundry tonight, and I just. I'm going to go outside and I'm going to put my socks down and walk in water.
[00:39:24] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:39:24] Speaker B: It's going to happen. So that I don't love. But I think we have run into a kind of an array of problems here. Oh, wait, I didn't do one more. Okay, one more. I'm sorry. I'm going to go backwards. Then we'll go back to the Airbnb folly.
[00:39:39] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:39:39] Speaker B: And that'll be our ending point.
So when we're in Portugal, I told. I probably said this in the first episode, but I'm going to repeat myself. I told you I'm struggling here because I'm missing some of these main factors that help me feel levels of happiness. Right.
What are those things? I said I want a kitchen that, where I like, is open so I can cook, and there are people there. We were in, like, a closet stuffed in this space in Portugal.
[00:40:03] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:40:04] Speaker B: I said I really want something with music and movies.
So I bought myself a nice little setup in my headphones to do that. And I Said the third one is in Portugal. I didn't have a gym and that was a real mistake. I ended up trying to do like push ups for three months and it failed miserably. So I was like, we're joining a gym. And then he's like, okay, let's do this.
So we went looking for gyms in San Miguel and we found Extreme Gym.
[00:40:32] Speaker A: I think I did mention that I screamed bloody murder in the gym on our first day because I felt like the weights were dropping on you.
[00:40:39] Speaker B: I don't think we told the exact story. I think.
[00:40:41] Speaker A: I think I talked about that story.
[00:40:43] Speaker B: Oh, man.
[00:40:43] Speaker A: Maybe I did.
[00:40:44] Speaker B: So we. I did some research before we came out here, and it seemed like the gyms were. I mean, again, this is kind of a cultural thing. It kind of like it wasn't expensive. Right. You both got a monthly membership of 20 bucks. But this equipment is from 35 years ago.
[00:41:00] Speaker A: It's handmade. Like the dumbbells. For sure. The dumbbells are like pieces of metal that have been cut and then like round.
5 kilogram or maybe 5 pounds, it depends.
[00:41:16] Speaker B: They're all over the place.
[00:41:17] Speaker A: Have been soldered on to these, like welded them. So the. The dumbbells are God knows what weight and they're just like soldered.
[00:41:30] Speaker B: You have to go by feel. You can't really. If you wanted to like analyze the amount, you're kind of like, ah, this feels heavy.
[00:41:35] Speaker A: But it's been a fun experience. I've actually really enjoyed it.
[00:41:39] Speaker B: Have you enjoyed it? So, like you get on this, this leg press machine with.
[00:41:43] Speaker A: I mean, it's very dirty.
[00:41:44] Speaker B: Really? Yeah. The hope. I mean, you have to use hand sanitizer.
[00:41:47] Speaker A: Like it was like phone was.
[00:41:49] Speaker B: I don't think anything has ever been wiped. But like it's kind of like Kmart. You. But like the machine with a leg press, like it has like two wheels and a track and it's like these wheels haven't even been like WD40. So it gets stuck.
[00:42:01] Speaker A: It does.
[00:42:02] Speaker B: So you basically got stuck.
[00:42:03] Speaker A: Yeah, I was trying to push it back up and not only was like the weight heavier than maybe I expected.
See previous cars again.
[00:42:11] Speaker B: Yeah. We didn't know the weight. Yeah.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: And. And then also it's like hitting rust. So it got stuck and I couldn't push it back up. So I'm like screaming for you.
[00:42:21] Speaker B: I got my headphones in. I'm like halfway across the gym.
[00:42:28] Speaker A: And they like, owner of the gym owner.
[00:42:31] Speaker B: This huge dude, wears Dallas Cowboy shit. I don't know why. Anyway, comes over to save you from that situation.
[00:42:37] Speaker A: Oh, my God. It's so embarrassing.
[00:42:40] Speaker B: But this, this gym is like, this is the kind of thing Rocky IV would do in Russia if he led. No equipment. This is just. It's just funny. It's. They get all this stuff. Like, other stuff, old machines is like, from Gold's Gym, the 80s, like, Arnold Schwarzenegger videos. Like, this is the equipment. But it's been beaten for, like, 40 years. But yes, I've actually had a great time with you doing this. I just. I don't know if I want to put this as a negative because, I mean, we haven't, like, had some kind of. Like, at least we got our tetanus shot. Right? We're okay, but, like, I'm surprised we haven't gotten more cut or hurt. Like, there's liability situations here.
[00:43:13] Speaker A: Oh, no, no. It was like, we had just handed over.
[00:43:16] Speaker B: We had them cash and. Hey, listen, they moved up in the world. I. I heard it was like a ledger you signed. Now they have a fingerprint thing for us.
[00:43:23] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:23] Speaker B: Which I'm pretty sure.
[00:43:24] Speaker A: They're very nice, though.
[00:43:25] Speaker B: They're awesome. They're so cool. I will say that. I did say the brand name. If you come here, you need to get the membership. Like, I will 100% vouch for the situation and say they're extremely kind. They're nice people.
They want people to be there. And I also see the owners constantly. They know the people there. They're working with them. They work out with them. Like, it's cool that, like, it's very much a community gym and there's women.
[00:43:49] Speaker A: There, too, so it doesn't feel like.
[00:43:51] Speaker B: It'S a nice mix. That's a great point. Like, I'm so used to, like, things being very male.
[00:43:55] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:43:55] Speaker B: And that gym has a nice bodies, a mix of people.
It's like 50. 50.
[00:44:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:02] Speaker B: I mean, we're probably the one of the few white people that are there.
[00:44:05] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:06] Speaker B: But it's a very much like a community based gym, and I think that's cool. As, like, if we didn't have children, we'd go every day.
[00:44:12] Speaker A: Exactly. I mean, we hear that there are more, quote, unquote, modern facilities, but this is very close to where we're staying.
[00:44:19] Speaker B: I kind of love this. I'm not upset about it.
[00:44:21] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:44:22] Speaker B: Like, we can get everything we need, basically. Except lay on the ground.
[00:44:25] Speaker A: We've been doing all standing abs because.
So gross.
[00:44:31] Speaker B: Okay, so the Airbnb. All right, so this is where we'll. We'll go into it. So I want to love this place because it's modern and I like that it.
[00:44:42] Speaker A: And it is very like the pick. It. It matches the pictures.
[00:44:45] Speaker B: Yeah, it's like really cool lighting fixtures and sconces and hanging lights and, you know, it's three stories. It's got two bedrooms on one floor, two bathrooms. I mean, it's got four bathrooms, open.
[00:44:56] Speaker A: Area that you can, like, oh, you know, sit in the kitchen or the living room and, like, open up to this little.
[00:45:03] Speaker B: Courtyard space, which is where.
[00:45:05] Speaker A: Which is very nice, except there's so many flies that you can't really open the door.
[00:45:09] Speaker B: Yeah, it's hard to open the door. So there's screens on each door and then off the owner's bedroom or the top bedroom. At the top, which gets pretty hot, is a whole, like, rooftop deck with plants and little umbrella out there. I mean, it's hard for us to get to because one of my qualms is that that bedroom has this tiny little armour we can barely fit any clothes into.
And so, like, we really haven't gotten out of our suitcases. I kind of want a dresser somewhere, which. It's funny enough, we went into this other Airbnb last night that had plenty of closet space. I mean, it would have been perfect. But this place, like, it weirdly has these cool amenities and then it's just missing other ones.
[00:45:47] Speaker A: I mean, if you wanted to put all your clothes in the basement, in the office, there's tons of stuff.
[00:45:52] Speaker B: I guess I could do that. That's. I mean, that's.
[00:45:54] Speaker A: And then you have to come down.
[00:45:55] Speaker B: And get here every day, you know, because there's not a shower down here. It just. It's odd because missing certain things, right? There's no oven, there's no blender.
[00:46:05] Speaker A: There's no microwave.
[00:46:06] Speaker B: There's no microwave. And I'm not saying you need all these things, like, we're making do, which it means we're going out to eat all the time, but it just seems odd. But what. What happened, what changed here is, like, right off the bat, we started running into problems. Like, from the moment we got here, the basement toilet didn't work.
[00:46:22] Speaker A: Well, I'll say this.
I got a message from the owner as we were driving in. That said, just so you know, there's a leak in the fridge.
[00:46:34] Speaker B: Oh, that's right.
[00:46:35] Speaker A: I've gotten. I. I've looked at it and, you know, it's the weekend, so I can't get somebody in to fix it, but there'll be somebody in on Monday. To fix it. Right. So that was, like, where it started. There's a leak in the fridge. And so when we got here, there was, like, a cereal bowl in the back of the fridge that's like, just got water dripping into it.
[00:46:59] Speaker B: Yes, correct.
But the toilet also didn't work.
[00:47:03] Speaker A: And the basement toilet did not work.
[00:47:05] Speaker B: Yeah, it didn't work. You flushed it one time and it stopped.
[00:47:08] Speaker A: I'll just be honest. I took a shit in that basement. Okay. His toilet. And then I went to go flush it, and it didn't flush.
And so then I'm like, what the. There's a turd just, like, floating around in this basement toilet for, like, four days.
[00:47:25] Speaker B: I kept trying to flush it. It was just this rogue turd. Just, like, embarrassing the shit out of you.
[00:47:35] Speaker A: And then the cleaner came, and somehow the turd went away.
[00:47:38] Speaker B: So I'm like, what the hell did that. Okay, so she didn't fix the toilet. The cleaner comes, the turd is gone, but the toilet doesn't work, so.
[00:47:47] Speaker A: Oh, God, it's so.
[00:47:48] Speaker B: So how do you imagine this? Did she take a plastic bag and, like, fish it out? Did she have, like, a little net? Like, how did she get it out of there? You know what I mean?
[00:47:57] Speaker A: I don't want to know. And, yeah, it's just. No.
[00:48:01] Speaker B: What do you think she said when she looked at. She was like, you know what I mean? How these eyes open?
[00:48:07] Speaker A: Like, she tried to flush it. It didn't flush.
[00:48:09] Speaker B: Oh, I tried for four days.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: And then she's like, oh, damn it.
[00:48:13] Speaker B: I don't know what you ate, but I'm like, I'm thinking water should be break down a little bit. Like, why did you have this hard submarine that was hanging out in there?
[00:48:23] Speaker A: Listen, when I travel, I get a little constipated, you know what I'm saying? Like, the first week.
[00:48:29] Speaker B: Listen, I have had some horrendous ships in life, so this is more just for comic relief. But, yeah, thank you for that detail. I forgot that she removed it. So finally, after, like, a week, these A first team comes in to fix the refrigerator and the toilet. Okay. That team leaves, and both the refrigerator still leaks. And the toilet flushed one time and then continued to run.
[00:48:58] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:48:59] Speaker B: Now the owner texts us and said, hey, it's actually. There's a problem with the toilet downstairs. There's something going on.
[00:49:04] Speaker A: They need a part that they can't.
[00:49:06] Speaker B: Get a part that they can get to order it. It's going to come in.
So I don't know.
[00:49:10] Speaker A: The fridge they said was fixed.
[00:49:12] Speaker B: They said it was fixed, but then.
[00:49:13] Speaker A: We looked in and right away every.
[00:49:15] Speaker B: Like everything, it was worse now. The whole fridge was wet. It got worse. So we text again and so she sends somebody else out and that. This was like right after the cleaner had come. So it was like the next day. And then we're seeing water all over the floor in front of the fridge. And I'm like, holy, we have like a serious problem here. So this other guy comes in, really nice, comes the house and he comes upstairs, he starts working just to fix the refrigerator, not the toilet, by the way. And so he comes back to me after a few hours. He passed some parts. He took the whole freezer apart. I mean, he took that shit apart. I don't know what the first person did, but this guy took the apart. So then he goes over and shows me. He goes, oh, by the way. He's like, I fixed it. By the way. The water all over the floor is not from the refrigerator. It's the fact that the five gallon jug that they brought. They bring us a five gallon jug of water because you can't drink the water. Which is also something to talk about.
[00:50:08] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:09] Speaker B: But anyway, point is, is was actually had a leak in the side and it was pouring water out of the.
[00:50:13] Speaker A: Side because they're reusable jug.
[00:50:15] Speaker B: They're usable jugs. But like, we didn't know.
[00:50:17] Speaker A: Fine. But yes, there was a. There was a crack in it.
[00:50:19] Speaker B: Crack in the jug.
So it's like, it's just, you know, another weird error that we had, like just pouring water all over the place and we thought was the refrigerator turned out to be this five gallon jug.
[00:50:30] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:50:30] Speaker B: Okay, so next.
So then. Oh, God. So I mean, it must have been probably the next day. We're still waiting for this toilet to get fixed.
[00:50:39] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:50:40] Speaker B: Our eldest goes in the bathroom and I hear her go, daddy, Daddy, Daddy. And I go over and I go and I look in and there's this water everywhere in the bathroom. I mean, it is like covered. I'm like, cordy, what happened? She goes, I don't know. I was just washing my hands. And so I'm looking at it. I mean, there's water all around the toilet, all on the floor. I mean, almost the entire floor is covered. I open up the cabinet under the sink and there's this single.
I would. It's pretty like a plastic scrunchy tube that's supposed to lead to the back of the cabinet and it's just out, like disconnected. Disconnected. And it's pouring water out of the cabinet onto the floor. And I go, courtney, what happened? She goes, I don't know. And so I go up to touch the sink. The entire sink on top of this vanity is not attached. It's just sliding around like a hockey puck on ice. And so every time. So I put this thing back in the back of the vanity, and then I just go back to touch the sink. And of course, as soon as the sink moves, it pulls the tube out. So the tube's not sealed in the back of the vanity and the sink is not sealed on the vanity.
[00:51:48] Speaker A: So then also, you used all of these towels that were in there, which then, for whatever reason, I don't know what's on the floor or what was in the water or what, but all of the towels are stained.
[00:51:59] Speaker B: The living shit out of all the towels I used. I don't know what that was or why that was. I'm scared of whatever that was.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:52:06] Speaker B: I'll come back to the stained towels later. Okay. So now that's messed up. So we call again.
[00:52:12] Speaker A: And now I'm like, this time we've called her. I'm like, you know, I'm like, not. We should call for these things. But my social anxiety is saying, this person's gonna hate us if we went.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: To a restaurant and we're in the US and the person who waited on us literally sat on the table and took a shit on Megan's meal. She tip on 20%.
She flat tips on 20 if they're the best service she's ever had in her life. I mean, persons who. Incredible. They come to us multiple times. They take care of things. They're just intuitive. They give her. They find the best wine. They do everything for her. 20%.
You know what I'm saying? So, like, she. There's. I don't care how good or how bad you are, you get 20%. You were a socialist before socialist got cool. Like, you get everybody 20%.
Well, my point is. Is like, yes, there's a social anxiety that happens there. So we felt that. I did, too, even though I don't have as much as you do. But we had. So. So they could not find someone to work on it.
So the owner came.
[00:53:07] Speaker A: Oh, also there. You forgot the leak in the roof. Because they. They were also. They came to fix that at the same time.
[00:53:14] Speaker B: Oh, I forgot to mention this. Right by where we were working by the desk, when every time it rained, there was a leak. Because they have these. It's a really cool. Like that courtyard we talked about also has glass Area. They do a lot of glass work in the house. It's natural light. It's really nice. But it was clearly leaking, so it's like shooting puddles of water downstairs.
So we called them and told them about both. So they actually drove out on a Sunday to investigate.
The guy that came was surprised the sink was not sealed, because I sent him the message, they're back to the store.
Grabbed sealing caulk, came and sealed everything in. Sealed off the glass upstairs, and said the plumber would be back in the next day.
[00:53:58] Speaker A: Yeah, and by the way, there was, after all of that happened, another. My daughter. Oldest daughter, was sitting in a different place in the basement where there's a little couch.
And it was rain, and there was water leaking from the ceiling onto the couch.
[00:54:17] Speaker B: So below the. Below. This courtyard area we're talking about isn't really a yard. It's a big concrete slab. And underneath the concrete slab are these metal girders holding it up. But if you look up underneath this concrete slab, that's where the bottom floor is. You can actually see the stains in the ceiling where the water is permeating the ceiling.
[00:54:36] Speaker A: Yeah. So this. They've already now fixed the toilet, fixed the refrigerator.
Okay. Oh, they hadn't fixed the toilet.
Tried to fix the toilet. Came out to re. Caulk this bathroom and fix, like, the quote, unquote, leak.
[00:54:55] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:54:55] Speaker A: And yet now we see another leak leaking onto their sofa. And I'm like, God, did we tell them there's another leak? Because it's gonna ruin their sofa. But I was like, I don't want to call again.
[00:55:08] Speaker B: Well, I told her so. So the next day, they show up with the plumbing person who comes in and completely removes the basement toilet. I can't. I mean, this is.
[00:55:17] Speaker A: The toilet is, like, out of the bathroom.
[00:55:18] Speaker B: Like, out of the bathroom, sitting on the side. And I. The owner came in, I was like, oh, my God. She's like, yeah, he's got to replace something. I'm like, really?
So repl. You know, puts in this whole seal on the bottom, puts the toilet back in. And I told the owner about the dripping ceiling, and she was like, oh, I guess we have to reseal the. The area again. And I'm like, I'm sorry to have to tell you that this is what it is. And, oh, by the way, that sealed glass area was still leaking again as well.
[00:55:44] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:55:45] Speaker B: So apparently they fixed the toilet, but literally, the next day, flush the toilet. It runs, and it just runs.
[00:55:52] Speaker A: I mean, I'm like, I'm not I'm not gonna tell you.
[00:55:53] Speaker B: The toilet's just running. I mean, for four.
[00:55:55] Speaker A: I can't tell.
[00:55:56] Speaker B: Four or five hours, you just hear the sound of it running. And of course, again, the house is terrible at sound, so you can hear it on every floor. This toilet running all night. So if you like white noise, this is great. Okay, so this leads us to. Here we are. We're gonna get to the end.
[00:56:10] Speaker A: Okay. So I will say on our very first day, I said. Because I didn't know, like, what the expectations were, I said, how do out the trash? Okay.
And again, we talked about the flies.
I did not realize how bad the situation was here with this.
But anyway, I said, how do we take out the trash? The owner wrote back very kindly and was like, here's the location of the trash that you take it to. But it's kind of annoying to get to. And so you do have a cleaner that's part of your service. Oh, my God. I just saw a bug running across the floor.
[00:56:53] Speaker B: Coming to you live. We're going over to bug infestation 2005.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: That was just a cricket.
[00:56:58] Speaker B: Oh, my gosh. Oh, we're gonna talk about the crickets.
[00:57:01] Speaker A: Oh, my God. They're super loud crickets. That's just the least of the worries now. They're gone. I don't know.
[00:57:06] Speaker B: They're so loud. I'm eat them here, so it's okay.
[00:57:10] Speaker A: So I. She said that it's very annoying to get to.
You have a cleaner who comes once a week. She'll help you with the trash. So I said, fine. Like, in my head, fine. We don't have to take the trash out. That's how I interpreted it. I don't know if that's what she meant.
[00:57:26] Speaker B: Which. Side note, I need to also say there's no recycling here, which is a big thing I have is a. That's another negative I didn't add earlier. But the reason I say that is because, as you can imagine, now I have more stuff. We got pizza boxes. We have, like, bottles of I'm drinking Topo Chico. Like, it's going out of style. So, like, you know, we're filling up more trash than we normally do, and the trash can outside is a tiny trash can. I mean, basically the size of a kitchen US trash can. Again, not a negative, but it just tells you how quickly, with diapers and a family of four, what's gonna happen, right?
[00:58:03] Speaker A: So we have friends over last night. We're having fun. We're drinking some beer.
[00:58:10] Speaker B: We're listening to 90s mixes. We're having some beers now. We should go backwards, go forwards, remember? So just so we know. So we set this up. The trash can outside, which is the blue. This is blue, kind of like a kitchen level trash bag. It's very cash can. It has one bag in it. Well, at this point, we've overfilled it and we don't have any replacements.
[00:58:28] Speaker A: Oh, yeah, because they don't give us.
[00:58:29] Speaker B: Because they didn't give us trash bags. So we bought trash bags at the local store. They fit the kitchen bins, which are like, tiny.
But I couldn't find anything that was large enough to fit this other bin. So at this point now I have three or four trash bags which are now not in the blue bin.
[00:58:46] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:58:46] Speaker B: So they're outside on the courtyard. I know people are gonna be like, oh, that was your first problem. Yeah, listen, I'll take some responsibility here. I also thought the cleaner was coming Thursday and then this would have been taken care of.
[00:58:59] Speaker A: So the cleaner, like, we got a message saying that the cleaner couldn't come until like a several days later, Saturday.
And I didn't, I just didn't think about.
[00:59:09] Speaker B: I didn't think you were gonna get an infestation. Like, I just didn't think about it.
[00:59:13] Speaker A: You know, So I, I went to. What I've been doing is taking the diapers, especially poopy diapers, and I'm bringing. I'm putting them out in the outdoor trash can with the lid because I don't want the house to start smelling like shit because there's no, like, diaper pail.
So I went and opened the door after I changed baby's diaper right before bed. And the entire top of the trash can lid is covered in maggots.
[00:59:41] Speaker B: How did you not. But the maggots were on the other trash bags. Didn't you see them?
[00:59:45] Speaker A: I did not. Because I was. It's dark and there was only one small light.
And the. I'm. When I say covered, I mean, I would love.
[00:59:55] Speaker B: I would love to tell you Megan was exaggerating here on bugs. But, like, this was.
Yeah, this is movie level maggot infestation going on.
[01:00:04] Speaker A: And I don't know, like, why we didn't notice. I mean, there must have been some that came. I don't know why it all of a sudden, like, went from.
[01:00:11] Speaker B: You weren't looking. We weren't looking at the floor. Right. So this wasn't zero. They were already manifested resting outside.
We just weren't looking at the floor because you don't see this maggot. I mean it's like a tiny. They're small.
[01:00:22] Speaker A: Okay, okay. So that. And then I'm like, oh, we have maggots. And I'm thinking it's a small amount, but then I start really looking.
[01:00:33] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:00:33] Speaker A: And they are everywhere.
[01:00:38] Speaker B: So just the word like. Yeah, no, she's right. So we have. So this again, this beautiful little courtyard means that there's three sets of sliding doors on each side. Our living room, one of the bedrooms and the kitchen all accompany like this area where the trash bags are. So these suckers are coming in underneath the door into three different rooms.
[01:01:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:01:02] Speaker B: And they're coming in at about, like about every minute. About three or four coming in.
[01:01:06] Speaker A: Right. Like I looked at. And they're. I'm finding them on the kitchen floor. I'm finding them in the bedroom floor. I'm finding them in the living room floor.
I start kill like I'm taking like a paper towel and I'm squishing them and they're popping under my finger.
I was just like, I, I'm. And I'm at this point like having full on phobia reaction to this, which is not good because, you know, I'm freaking our kids out.
[01:01:38] Speaker B: Yeah. Unfortunately, we had a couple of like not saying you shouldn't be concerned about maggots from a health perspective, but I, I did you and I confronted a couple of times and I was like, they're going to feed off the energy that's happening right now.
[01:01:52] Speaker A: It didn't help that an hour before my dad, who is a veterinarian, sent a letter from the USDA that was basically like, veterinarians beware. There's a like higher than Norma, like aggressive form of maggots coming from Mexico. So livestock that's being transitioned from Mexico. So he's like, hey, just FYI, watch out for the maggots. And then this happens an hour later.
We're doing everything.
[01:02:20] Speaker B: So. So here we go. So. So I'm on. So I'm, you know, fervently like researching the Internet, trying to figure out ways to do this. So like I have this like jar of salt, I have a bottle of fabuloso cleaner and I'm boiling water and so I'm dumping the salt in every one of these little catches where the sliding doors are because it was supposed to like a slug suck out their moisture and kill them. These suckers are like, they're like moving.
[01:02:49] Speaker A: They're like, I love, I love salt. Give me more.
[01:02:52] Speaker B: I love savory motherfuckers.
[01:02:55] Speaker A: And they're crawling up the walls of the lake.
[01:02:58] Speaker B: Up the walls are going through. I'm picking these things up with a paper towel and I'm throwing them the boiling water. And then I'm dumping the boiling water into these crevice cracks with the salt and the cleaner. Just thinking I'm going to slow them down. The boiling water is going to kill them on contact.
But I couldn't kill them fast enough. You know what I mean? It's like the flood waters are coming in.
You're stuffing sandbags against this flood water, but the water just rising, like, that's basically where we're at. So Megan, like, I was like, we're leaving, we're out. She was right. She was like, we're going to a hotel. And I think I was just not there. I was like, one, we have to defend this place against the intruders. I've taken a oath to no.
[01:03:38] Speaker A: And I was like, stop doing that and come help me pack.
[01:03:43] Speaker B: Well, the funny part was like, you know, Megan was like very high level concerned here. And our eldest, I'd say 45 minutes before we even left, was already packing her bag.
She was packing.
[01:03:56] Speaker A: She was looking up hotels.
[01:03:58] Speaker B: She got her iPad, she was showing me the hotels. She found.
She packed her bag. Which by the way, is pretty funny because, like, of course, like, we were under duress. And so I found, like, when she packed her bag, she. She packed like a week's worth of clothes.
[01:04:13] Speaker A: She really wanted to go to her home shop.
[01:04:15] Speaker B: She could have soaked eight pairs of socks because she had a knife. Like, that's what she really.
[01:04:20] Speaker A: She was like, we're moving out, we're going to a hotel. There's going to be a pool.
[01:04:24] Speaker B: We're going to hotel. I'm going to find a pool. And daddy, look at these places I found. And I feel bad because I don't think I was really there emotionally to listen to her. But she was doing a good job of being responsible, probably to protect herself, but also to protect us.
So.
[01:04:40] Speaker A: And she likes an adventure, let's be honest.
[01:04:42] Speaker B: She loves hotels. She loves spending money.
Loves spending money. Oh, my God, what a fan. She just loves to spend money. Thank God that we can turn. Like, we could say no at some point because she loved. Anyway, I was the last one to come around. Megan literally at one point was like, get your shit, we're leaving. That's what she said to me. I've had a couple of moments where she denies saying things this strongly.
[01:05:05] Speaker A: I did.
[01:05:06] Speaker B: She Literally said, I did.
[01:05:07] Speaker A: Because I was like, I'm not sleeping here tonight. I am not sleeping here tonight. I had briefly thought about sleeping in the upper room upstairs, and I was.
[01:05:14] Speaker B: Like, that's what I thought we're gonna do is sleep on the third floor. But she's like, nope, we have an infestation. We're leaving. So I text the. I had already been texting with the owner about what was going on, and she was like, do you want me to. I can come down. I said, I don't know what you're gonna do. I said, I need vinegar. Like, I don't have enough killers. But I said, I don't know that's gonna do it. I'd thrown boiling water out there and tried to kill as many as I could, but at this point, they're probably. I mean, there. It's. It's decaying organic matter.
[01:05:40] Speaker A: Right?
[01:05:40] Speaker B: So they are in the bag. Must have been way more than we saw.
[01:05:46] Speaker A: I can't. I'm, like, gagging the level.
[01:05:48] Speaker B: I mean, we.
[01:05:49] Speaker A: We.
[01:05:49] Speaker B: You know, this is the whole Titanic tip of the iceberg. Like, we saw part of this. Whatever was under the surface.
[01:05:54] Speaker A: I can't.
[01:05:55] Speaker B: Was probably immeasurably bad. And, of course, Megan at the time was like, they burrow into your skin, and then they hatch larvae.
[01:06:04] Speaker A: I'm gonna. I'm gonna preface that comment. I grew up on a farm, and there are multiple instances where a sheep had feces on its rear end for whatever reason, got stuck in the wool or whatever, and maggots got on there, and their entire back end was like. They ate the flesh of the back end of the sheep. And, like, to the point where my dad would have to put. Put down a sheep every so often, because this, like, we would, you know, bring them in from, like, out in the field, and it would, like, its entire back end was eaten off. It's nasty.
[01:06:45] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:06:45] Speaker A: I mean, not that it would get to that point with our.
[01:06:48] Speaker B: But I mean, clearly, that's where you were mental.
[01:06:50] Speaker A: Like, I was literally last night, as I'm putting the baby. Like, the baby is asleep, and I'm like. I had this image of, like, a maggot had gotten into her diaper.
And so while. Even though she was asleep already, I, like, took off her diaper, got a flashlight, and I was, like, inspecting her to make sure no maggots got into her diaper. I was so. I was like, oh, God, it was so.
[01:07:17] Speaker B: I'm hearing that she did this. By the way, I also know about the sheep thing. Because you like, basically looked at me and she's like, like last night. And you're like, do you know what they do with sheep?
Did you grow up on a farm? I want to tell you what they did to shape, like you turn into Batman and got in my face last night to tell me, like, the reasons why we should leave. Like, I love you, but like, when you get into those anxiety situations. No, it's very uncomfortable for people around you.
[01:07:45] Speaker A: You're right. I, I am, I'm one track mind and it's accurate.
[01:07:48] Speaker B: I really feel like our anxious child could have done without a certain level of that, Like a certain level of.
[01:07:54] Speaker A: Listen, you know, I, I could use my own therapist at some point.
[01:07:58] Speaker B: You know, it's funny though, like, we attacked, we asked, we asked her today about it and she was like, oh, no, it's no big deal. I'm good.
[01:08:04] Speaker A: She goes, I'll forget about it. You guys want that?
[01:08:06] Speaker B: Yeah. She goes, I'll forget about it. You won't. Recording this core memory for you. You'll know, but you all will, you'll remember this.
Anyway, so just to end the story, we, we did leave. We wrote the owner, she said, hey, I have another place two minutes away. There's nobody there. And so 10:30 at night and our poor under two year old was losing her mind because she was still awake. And this whole panic situation went down for like an hour and a half had gone by of dealing with this shit.
And so we did, we walked in the rain down the road. It was very close. Got into the new place, went up the desk stairs and tried to get everybody to find a bed and go to sleep. So we did stay in a different Airbnb last night. And then next morning they send in cleaning people. They were here for about five or six hours cleaning the place out.
[01:09:00] Speaker A: I can't even imagine what they had before we returned.
[01:09:03] Speaker B: And yeah, whatever they did. Because last night what I was gonna do is I was like, hey, I'll get, you know, I said I have to get the organic matter out. But I couldn't think of any possible way to get those bags without dropping maggots throughout the house.
[01:09:16] Speaker A: Yeah, because there's no, like that, that courtyard is in the house. There's no like, way to get from that courtyard to an outside door without going through the house.
[01:09:26] Speaker B: You have to go to the house some way, shape or form. So I couldn't solve that. I was like, I don't have a solution for that. The only solution for that would have a, like, which I don't have here that we found is like contractor bags.
[01:09:37] Speaker A: I'm having a little bit of anxiety that I didn't like, check the baby's bed. That there was like, not maggots.
[01:09:43] Speaker B: Well, baby's bed was on the third story.
[01:09:46] Speaker A: I carried it up there, but it.
[01:09:48] Speaker B: Was on the third story. Dude.
What they probably did, which is what I would do, is you get pretty big gloves and you got a large contractor bag and you stuff them all into the bag, tighten the shiv of it and run out the house. I guess that's how you do it, you know? But it's like, I don't know. Whatever. Point is, is we had to deal with that poor sleeping.
I couldn't fall asleep last night. Not because I was dreaming of maggots in baby's diaper, but because we were sleeping next to a karaoke bar where they were screaming, do you believe in life after love?
And I couldn't sleep just hearing terrible karaoke last night.
[01:10:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:10:29] Speaker B: Plus, I think, like, also just.
[01:10:31] Speaker A: It was very time you go to a new place.
[01:10:32] Speaker B: It was emotional. It was a lot going on.
And I just wasn't able to, like, I couldn't decompress well. And I knew you weren't sleeping either because I got an update to a notes file at like 12:40am that you updated the notes file on something. I don't know what it was.
[01:10:47] Speaker A: I know I was having trouble sleeping.
Oh, my God.
[01:10:51] Speaker B: So, yeah, so.
But we have both said, and this is not a negative, to Mexico again, this isn't a negative. San Miguel.
Based on. I'll say for me, I won't speak for you. Based on travel. I think a week here is fine. I think you come in for a week, you spend some time here. But I think I'm ready to go.
I'm good. I know we've had some tough experiences, which is kind of muddying it.
But I'm like, okay, I've had my fill of the city. We can go see.
[01:11:22] Speaker A: I wonder how much, like, if we had loved our Airbnb and we had all positive experiences with it, or we didn't have a weird interact situation where we're now having to confront the nanny about not bringing our K kids into random people's houses.
Like, whether we would be having. Whether we'd be having a different experience. But I feel the same way. And I'm like, I really wanted to like it more.
[01:11:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:11:48] Speaker A: And I'm like, is this just my, like, very white ass American viewpoint? Which probably partly it is.
[01:11:55] Speaker B: But acknowledging that bias. And we acknowledge that from initially the point that's there, I think that there, there are places that you just kind of fall in love with again. I didn't love Sintra either.
And I wanted to leave Sintra too, but we were into it.
[01:12:10] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:11] Speaker B: You know what I mean?
[01:12:12] Speaker A: But I, I liked Port. I mean, I would have gone to a different part of Portugal.
[01:12:16] Speaker B: I'm with you. I'm just saying, like, we're talking about a city. We really are stuck in San Miguel.
[01:12:20] Speaker A: So if we. Yeah. We're not somewhere else.
[01:12:22] Speaker B: If we were stuck in Sintra, I would have said the same thing.
[01:12:24] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:12:25] Speaker B: I felt like after about a week I had done as much as that could have been done in that area. We have no car.
We've heard there's really cool places outside of town. Right. And we don't have any way to get there because we're not throwing our child.
[01:12:37] Speaker A: Yeah. I asked, I asked like a bunch of, like, where are there good playgrounds and walkable from here? There are two places, maybe three if you're willing to pay for a restaurant. There are like two places where they're at least a 10 minute, if not a 20 minute walk away.
And that's hard. Like, when you have kids, like you want, like you want to be able to just like walk out and be able for them to play somewhere not too far away. Now I'm not being like, unreal. Like, I realize that it's, you know, we weren't going to have a backyard or something like that. Not that our kids play in the backyard anyway. They don't. But like, that there would be a little bit more. And I think that was true in Sintra and that's true here. There's. You had to walk pretty far to get somewhere that the kids could run around.
[01:13:26] Speaker B: Well, yeah, the playground here is nice. With no strip syndrome, we're trying to look for kids to get something to do. What I will say here is at least there's these rooftop restaurants.
[01:13:36] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:13:36] Speaker B: And so the kids can explore a little bit. And we found two places that have playgrounds in the restaurants.
[01:13:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:13:42] Speaker B: But overall, I think that I could. This town specifically, I can say we've done it and it's been great.
[01:13:50] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean, there. We've met some expats who are like, we came here, we fell in love with it and we moved here.
Yeah. Super nice. Lots of people are super nice.
[01:14:00] Speaker B: But they, but they, like, we're in, you know, they, they bought a place. I mean, they chucked it and this is where they're gonna live.
[01:14:06] Speaker A: Yeah, I can say that. This.
I don't, I don't think that after a week, my impression is that's not gonna be our viewpoint.
[01:14:14] Speaker B: No, I definitely. This wouldn't be. There's some cool stuff.
[01:14:18] Speaker A: Definitely some cool stuff.
[01:14:19] Speaker B: But I, I, I don't know.
[01:14:21] Speaker A: The visit, I'm not feeling that.
[01:14:22] Speaker B: Yeah, no, it's 100 worth a visit. I just, I'm not getting that vibe.
[01:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:14:28] Speaker B: You know.
[01:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah. There's other places we've been to where we're like, oh, we would move here.
[01:14:32] Speaker B: Yeah.
[01:14:33] Speaker A: And this is not one of those.
Just our impression.
You might feel differently.
[01:14:41] Speaker B: Oh, my God. You don't need to say that. You don't need to say it. I think people can, like, do you ever listen to something and be like, oh, God, I disagree with that? Or do you just, like, hear it and go, oh, yeah? I mean, you're not a conservative.
[01:14:55] Speaker A: I don't think that we're like, oh, everybody should hate it. No, it's just our perspective.
[01:14:59] Speaker B: Holy shit. We're doing a podcast about ourselves.
Who cares what they think? What are you gonna again? The three people who listen are gonna send you another hate mail. Dear Dr. Buyer, I don't think this is a reflection a of professional, let alone the fact that I love Mexico. How dare you talk dirty about San Miguel.
[01:15:18] Speaker A: I can see why people love it. It's not for me.
[01:15:21] Speaker B: There are great things and certain. But we just listen. This is. I think this is more a positive. You and I mesh. Can you imagine if you were like, I'm in love. I never want to leave. And I was like, this is a shit show. Yeah, we're there. We are a buyer. We're a team.
You're a broken but loving team that, that connects here and I hope the next space. And whenever we find that space, you know, we're on the same page about it. Like, that's what matters. I don't care if the two people that listen to this are like, those assholes. That was. That was the paradise of all paradises. Yeah, we just, we're talking about our. Like, some people love desert. They love mountain. They love landlocked areas. I mean, there's people that love Kansas. What's wrong with those assholes? But they love it.
[01:16:11] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:16:11] Speaker B: So I don't think I care what they think of our opinions. People spout that shit all the time. I think what's. What's cool is, like, you and I are actually on the same page here. I think I would feel Sad, because, like, even this trip, doing all of this. We've talked about this. You wanted to do this for a year. Right.
And I had to struggle with disappointment. You. And we had a good talk about it, you know, which, by the way, I wouldn't have done if I hadn't been going to therapy. My therapist was like, you're gonna disappoint your spouse, and that's okay.
[01:16:42] Speaker A: Yeah.
[01:16:43] Speaker B: Because it's better than you trying to.
[01:16:45] Speaker A: Say, oh, let me force myself.
[01:16:47] Speaker B: I'm gonna make you happy, but then I'm gonna feel resentful and lack of fulfillment. And I want to feel angry at you. And, like, I would love to tell you, I'm the person that's so adaptable and easygoing. I can do that. But I'm not.
[01:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah. We both know you're not.
[01:17:00] Speaker B: No, I'm not.
So I think that it was good to be honest with you and say that that's the case. Right. That I'm not able to. Like, I'm going to disappoint you at some point.
[01:17:11] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, but, you know, I. I think we had to talk about that. And I think six months is. Most people don't get to do six months. And so that. This is still, like, a pretty awesome adventure, even if it's not a full year, you.
[01:17:23] Speaker B: It's an awesome adventure, but I feel like at this point, I mean, I think that we're going to be around tables, drinking, talking about maggot infestations for the next six months with different cuddles.
[01:17:32] Speaker A: Well, listen, hopefully we won't have another maggot infestation, but maybe there'll be other things that happen that we won't.
Well, enjoy talking about.
[01:17:42] Speaker B: It creates some memories, that's for sure. But I think that's true. Right. Like, sometimes there's things that happen, happen. Like, unfortunately, I don't always remember the best times, but I remember the stories about, like, intense events or situations that were nuts, you know, about, like, some of the disaster situation. Listen, I'm sure people have had way worse airbnb situations.
[01:18:06] Speaker A: Yes.
[01:18:07] Speaker B: That are just horrid when it comes to either cleanliness or problems that go, like, way beyond. Yeah. So I can imagine it's worth. It's just. You're right. I think your point is very good. I think it is somewhat culinary experience, but I'm trying so hard to take myself out of it. It's like, I know the places that we've been to. Where I've been. Like, holy shit, I love this place.
I could stay here.
[01:18:30] Speaker A: Yeah, I can name a bunch of them off the top of my head, but we'll get to that another time.
[01:18:34] Speaker B: Good Lord.
[01:18:36] Speaker A: Yeah, well, we could talk about that another time.
[01:18:38] Speaker B: I think your city love is like polyamory.
[01:18:42] Speaker A: True.
[01:18:46] Speaker B: Close us out, Dr. B.
[01:18:49] Speaker A: Well, this is our episode on maggots, and I think we should call it Shits and Giggles instead of Trips and Giggles, because maybe those maggots were in the diaper. Shits.
[01:19:02] Speaker B: Oh, my God.
Can we get through this phase of, like, having a little. Little.
She's so freaking cute. But the diapers.
[01:19:11] Speaker A: We'll be out of diapers soon. Okay. Anyway, that was our magnet adventure week one in Mexico. Bye.
