Re: Puerto Vallarta: Goose, Golden Egg, etc.

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Re: Puerto Vallarta: Goose, Golden Egg, etc.

Posted on: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:36:54 CST

"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
news:Xns978852BAFDC72VeebleFetzer@127.0.0.1...
> reply@group.please (Zigler) wrote in
> news:Gv7Sf.57$NH1.13590@news.uswest.net:
>
>>
>> "Bert Hyman" wrote in message
>> news:Xns9786BE893C59FVeebleFetzer@216.250.184.7...
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>>> Zigler's type I know all too well, and funny is not a word I'd use
>>> to describe it.
>>
>> Wow, psychic. I'm intrigued. Forget for the moment that you just
>> called my crack about "non-commercialized" Mexico City "hilarious",
>> tell me more about my type, which you know so well.
>
> That's easy. You're the kind of person who makes this sort of
> uncalled-for generalization about average tourists out for a week's
> relaxation:
>
> " You know the folks who think Cancun is "Mexico" or are
> more concerned with the cell phone coverage would not like a more
> authentic cultural experience. Besides, these folks probably don't
> speak enough "Mexican" to get a bus ticket back to the city."
>
> You're just another pig-headed travel snob who believes that his way
> of travel is the only way of travel.

You should have stopped at "uncalled-for generalization".

As for the rest, I'll give you credit for a good effort, but it is highly
simplistic. My "snobbery" has nothing really to do with travel, per se. I'm
just one more of many Americans who laments our country's utter lack of
cultural richness and authenticity and it's rampant obsession with
never-ending materialism and incessant business and banality. This is one
reason those Mexican towns like Oaxaca, Taxco, Guanajuato, etc. are so
intriguing. When you spend a little time there and mingle with the locals
and see how they live, at least publicly, and how they spend time just
hanging in the zócalos (town centers) conversing or painting or walking
hand-in-hand with their children or any of a number of things more edifying
than slouching in the easy chair with a bag a chips and a TV, it's a whole
different experience that makes the world smaller and the person bigger. It
can also be very relaxing, on multiple levels.

But to each their own, as you are saying. And before you suggest I pack my
bags and relocate to the central highlands of Mexico, know that I have
considered it and that if I could find a way to survive on 7 dollars a day,
move to a foreign country and master the language, I might be on my way...
But even when one returns to the good ol' USA after an experience like that,
he comes back with a whole new appreciation of all things... even making
uncalled-for, pig-headed comments to strangers on the internet.

>
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> Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN | bert@iphouse.com
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