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Sept. 25, 2017 Coming soon to a ~ Walmart … Target … Home Depot ~ in your area … There are whole new generations of credit card skimmers at Walmart et al that are surprisingly good… What Can We Do? … Continue reading →

Sept. 19, 2017 Let’s begin with a few general principles:   Local Mexican used cars pricing can seem to be all over the map, unless you first check out Kelley Blue book values from the USA & check Mercado Libre … Continue reading →

Sept. 16, 2017 Update Taxes and death are the two things most people want to avoid, but here at Yucalandia we suffer from a peculiar malady of grimacing and facing-off with distasteful-but-necessary issues.  We recently addressed Death** ,  so, now … Continue reading →

Sept. 10, 2017 Aduana agents at various US-Mexico border crossings are shifting their stance on whether the US state registration paper is sufficient to get a Temporary Import Permit for US-plated vehicles.  In the past, US state registration paperwork was … Continue reading →

Sept. 9, 2017 **See the end of the article, and the comments for new updates about a class action lawsuit and other new details on protecting our rights.  e.g.  The NY Atty General today asked Equifax to remove their buried … Continue reading →

Sept. 7, 2017 Update For people who do not track multiple expat forums from around Mexico, there are some real-world updates  that are worth noting regarding both ~ taxes on Mexican sourced income~ and on “tourist” visas. Example:  An acquaintance … Continue reading →

August 27, 2017 Update** Public Service Announcement For anyone who is concerned about specific Houston areas with family~friends, check out this map of red, yellow & green locations and their bayou water levels. Now (9:40 pm Sat.): About 20 points … Continue reading →

August 21, 2017 Today’s eclipse was totality cool.   Scenic Bartlett Ranch NE of Torrington, Wyo had it all: (Fotos below) ~ Temperatures fell 7 degrees. ~ This spring’s calves & their cow-moms quietly got up as totality approached, started … Continue reading →

July 27, 2017  Shipping Medical Items into Mexico: Shipping drugs, medications, medical equipment etc require an import permit from COFEPRIS (Federal Commission for Protection Against Health Risks). A copy of the COFEPRIS approved permit must be in the package with … Continue reading →

July 17, 2017 We’d like to share a quick foto-tour of Mexico, where photographer Arturo Ortiz matches the images on our currency to the actual locations … paired with Yucalandia’s thumbnail descriptions of the places & people. ¡ Mil Gracias … Continue reading →

June 21, 2017 Life in Mexico Mexican electricity is it’s own special thing, working reliably for years, and then getting flakey as all-get-out, as some ground on the CFE transformers goes bad, or the transformers go bad, or the tap … Continue reading →

June 13, 2017 Updates ~ INM has changed their policy on Residente Temporal visas with permission to work for a company who have changed to being self employed, as INM now denies renewals when someone changes to self-employment.   INM … Continue reading →

June 13, 2017 In addition to resurrecting deadly Spanish Flu viruses from human bodies …  frozen in the Arctic a mere 100 years ago, plus nasty anthrax from frozen caribou carcasses in the Arctic …  there are some additional interesting … Continue reading →

June 12, 2017 Be sure to turn ON your sound … to hear the Maya pronunciations. . Common Birds of Yucatan Animals of Yucatan  (Quintana Roo) My personal favorite is Ts’unu’um … for hummingbird … because it really does sound … Continue reading →

Want an antidote to all the negative stuff that’s flying around ? …  Life in Yucatan Happy Trails, steve *     *     *     * Feel free to copy while giving proper attribution: YucaLandia/Surviving Yucatan. © … Continue reading →

May 25, 2017 Here’s a video of the initial source~cause of yesterday’s Yucatan Peninsula blackout. Those explosions & fires then triggered lots of other subsequent fires & explosions downstream at local substations across Yucatan. .  

May 25, 2017 … Mosquito abatement time! … Let’s nip Dengue, Chikungunya & Zika in the bud. After a long dry spell, all those carefully-deposited Aedes Aegypti eggs are now re-hydrated, hatching, and can become free-flying adults …. in just … Continue reading →

April 26, 2017 The USA’s 2005 REAL ID Act is being implemented now, and will be coming into full force in January 2018. The core of the US REAL ID Act set federal security new standards for state driver’s licenses … Continue reading →

Originally posted on Surviving Yucatan:
February 10, 2017 Public Service Announcement: Our helpful readers continue to update us all on what rule enforcement changes are taking place around Mexico. “New Enforcement of Regulation re: Bringing Dogs into Mexico via Air…

March 4, 2017 Public Service Announcement: Want to know whether your favorite PEMEX station is delivering the amount of gasoline or LP you are paying for? …  Check out this map …. e.g.  zoom in ~keeping Merida in the center … Continue reading →