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I know right? I got into a cringeworthy knock-down-drag-out yesterday with someone who insisted that people on her side of the aisle "never lie." Well (a) yes they do, everybody does, and (b) it's not just about giant intentional evil lies, there's a lot of smaller and/or well-intentioned BS...

I know I've posted on this before, but it was in a thread dedicated to a different topic and I thought it might be a good idea to give it its own thread ... since there seem to be quite a few folks here who care about this kind of thing. Here's an article I just came across, on how to make sure...

The required insurance is liability only.

The price I've seen for a year (without digging deep or looking for bargains) is just under $450. Someone told me she gets it for <$200 but I think that might have been a miscommunication.

Not comparing like populations, for one (people fit and solvent enough to travel to a foreign country vs all the people living in their home country). Though the comparison would still be interesting.

Yikes maybe a different kind of "insurance"?😵‍💫 The people I've driven down with don't seem to have anything on the dashboard, just some paperwork in the glovebox.

FWIW, the impression I've gotten from people here is that the outlets that sell it right on the border are not necessarily disreputable, it's just that they charge you more than if you bought it from, I dunno, a regular insurance agent or the company hq. One person I've talked to uses Sanborn...

There was that murder of three surfers last week near Ensenada, they're thinking a carjacking gone wrong. So much for "the cartels keep the anti-tourist crime down because they don't want the attention"!

Does anyone here have direct experience with buying/using Mexican car insurance and have any (y) or (n)to share? I am aware that there are other sources of information and I am consulting those too. I'm asking here about y'all's experience. I know there are a few people here who go to Baja and...

nice try:LOL: send the gold leaf and antique Moroccan leather next

Amazon sent me some stuff I didn't pay for (extra printer ink). I tried to contact their help desk but went round and round in the stupid automated chat (yes, AI -- if that's what it is -- has a way to go before it takes over the world -- unless it decides to bore us to death). If I just say...

Here are a couple of good resources on mineral rights: Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mineral_rights Investopedia: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mineral-rights.asp From a quick skim of the top page of each, it looks like the laws vary...

A wild rendition of St James Infirmary by Rising Appalachia

The things you learn here!

You'd be surprised how often that happens. I never knew about "unthaw," but I've seen that same thing happen a ton of times. Just because something sounds weird to me doesn't mean it's wrong... We are so lucky we got to pick this language up naturally and didn't have to learn it in school...

LOL I've been on at least one forum where there was a rule against Windows vs. Mac discussions. It was almost worse than politics or religion! (Only a few exalted Linus-knowing types walked among us and they probably figured we were a lost cause for conversion.)

I-40 is closed near the AZ/NM line due to a train accident/fire with potential for propane involvement. https://lite.cnn.com/2024/04/27/us/new-mexico-train-derailment-evacuation/index.html No known injuries so far. Be safe (including from traffic-jam-induced apoplexy), y'all.

Wow, that looks great. And no filters to throw away.

Trying to store up the cool temps for later (ha, like that works).

I wonder if a tea infuser would do the trick, or if the holes are too big and would let the coffee grounds out. People have also been known to make coffee in the toe of a nylon stocking, right?