Conversations with Other Travelers

We are meeting more Canadians than Americans on this trip. I asked one of the Canadians who has been all over Mexico for the past couple of months if he had noticed this trend too. He said yes. I wondered why, and he said bluntly, "Because Americans are scared ****less." I was thinking that the weather was the main reason. It's likely a mix of many reasons, but there is a trend in Mexico that the proportion of Canadians in expat areas like Lake Chapala has risen quite a lot compared to people from the U.S.

A German couple commented on how friendly Americans are. They said that they were questioned closely when they flew into an Eastern U.S. city from Europe, "but it was done in a friendly way. They were just doing their job. German officials are much more brusque." They had traveled through the United States and encountered only friendliness everywhere. Nice to hear.