How to Retire Without Money
BEST PLACES TO RETIRE: MEXICO (page 3)
TRANSPORTATION. Getting to Mexico couldn't be more simple. You can drive your own car or take a bus, train, airplane or a ship. For that matter you can ride a bike or hitch-hike.By car there are several points of entry including Brownsville, Laredo, McAllen and El Paso, Texas; Nogales, Arizona; and Mexicali, California. Of these we would recommend Laredo, if you are coming from the East; El Paso, as the central entry point; and Mexicali from the West Coast. I do not recommend entry from Brownsville, on the Gulf of Mexico. The last time I drove over the road between Brownsville and Ciudad Victoria, I all but ruined my car. Of course, that was several years ago, but nobody is in a particular hurry, in Mexico. Possibly the road has been repaired considerably, but I'd check first.
As a rule, the roads are quite good. You need not expect dirt affairs on which you compete with burros. The main highways leading down from the border are on an average as good as we find in our own western states, sometimes better.
By bus, it will cost you a bit less than $50 between New York and Mexico City. From border towns such as Laredo or El Paso, you can get bus passage for about ten dollars to Mexico City. Remember, if you are on a shoestring budget, that there are different class buses in this country. There are wonderful first class vehicles, the same as our best Greyhounds. At the other extreme are fourth class buses, primitive affairs held together with bailing wire and scotch tape-although somehow they get you there. Needless to say, these fourth class buses are a fraction the cost of the better ones.
The Aztec Eagle, running between Laredo and Mexico City is one of the best trains, bar none, on the North American continent. Coach fare is about ten dollars, possibly a dollar or so more these days. This train was made in Switzerland for the Mexican government, is built of aluminum, goes like the wind, and has every convenience including showers in the rest rooms.
Flying will cost you just about a hundred dollars from New York to Mexico City, obviously less from cities closer by. If you are going to the Yucatan peninsula, from either Miami or New Orleans, fare is about $50. Yucatan is the most untouched part of Mexico and one of the most fabulous places in the world.
You can also take ship from just about any American port and land at Vera Cruz on the East coast, or Acapulco or one of the more northerly ports on the West coast. Check with any travel agency on this, there are too many possibilities to list here.
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