Crossing the border from Calexico, California to Mexicali, Mexico [...]
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If you want medical assistance at Mexican prices, and if you don’t want to lose US benefits – if you want to stick your toe in the water before you leap into Mexico – try Calexico. [...] The so called “free” health care in America costs a lot more than paid health care in Mexico. [...] Waiting to cross into the U.S. Jim and I had to run some errands in Calexico, California, and it was also an opportunity to show Matthew the town of Calexico. We took off, at about noon, and while waiting in line to enter America a huge black 2009 Ford [...] 
Seized narco-money This post is prompted by a comment sent in by one of our readers. He is coming to Mexicali on business, and wonders if he will be safe. That’s a very fair question. My short answer is “yes.” Jim and I could only afford to move to a border town. The [...] A beautifully decorated Mexicai home “Tis the season to be jolly.” Christmas is almost upon us. During our drives through the Mexicali nighttime streets, most of the homes are lit up with Christmas lights, and even some impressive nativity scenes. Christmas for Mexicans, is the most important religious holiday of all. Christmas is [...] The Innocent-looking tunnel house Mexicali is a border town, just right next to Calexico, California. As such, it’s a great place for smugglers to build underground tunnels to Calexico. To do that, the houses where the tunnel originates in Mexicali have to be just directly across from Calexico. This makes it relatively easy [...]  Calexico's main street with McDonald's Every so often, Jim and I take a short hop across the border to Calexico, California. It’s a short trip as Calexico is on one side of the border and we are on the other. Jim could throw a horseshoe from our back yard into Calexico, easy. Usually, we get there pretty early in the morning so we can have breakfast at McDonalds. On our last trip we went to El Centro, which is about 12 miles north-east of Calexico because Jim had made an appointment to see a doctor for some stomach problems. I told him, “Why not just go to our Mexicali doctor, Arturo?” Jim’s answer seemed to make sense. “MaryAnn, I’m on Medicare, and my doctor visit in El Centro is gonna be pretty much free.” Continue reading Medicare Ripoff – at least for us… Hello from Mexicali, Mexico! Jim and I are California retirees, living on our social security checks. We have been waiting for this day to come, and we figured that our only choice of a comfortable retirement had to be in Mexico. There had to be certain qualifications to our search for a place to retire. Here’s our story. [...] |
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