When I started to talk to people about coming to Mexico and was asking if there are things to watch out for, two things kept coming up over and over again. 1) Watch the water. Whatever you do, don’t brush your teeth with the water or drink it in the shower! 2) No paper in the toilet!<\/p>\n
Both of these things seem to exasperate people after a while. They’ll never be an issue for me.<\/p>\n
You see, the water at Haven is not potable. It is pure spring water that runs through cow pastures into our water system. There is E. coli and other nasty stuff in it. I ignored the warnings and drank it for a few days my first days at Haven, assuming I’d get used to the taste, and got a good sense of what the ‘turista’ is like… Keeping my toothbrush well away from the tap is something I consider normal now! Water on Isla will be managed exactly like it is at Haven, by keeping on hand two five-gallon containers of potable water and transferring the water into a more manageable container. The only difference is that I will get at home delivery!<\/p>\n
As for the toilet paper thing, until later this past summer, when Willow Bunch got its wonderful new dump station (free!), dumping my holding tanks was a huge hassle. I was able to seriously extend the time between dumps by throwing the paper in the trash. I’d just bag it at the end of the day and throw the bag into my trash barrel, so the bathroom stayed cleaned. When I still had Neelix, I was dumping a bag of cat litter every day anyway, and then I just kept the habit of taking out a bag every evening.<\/p>\n
So water and plumbing idiosyncrasies aren’t an issue for me and the telecom company is just as bad as any I’ve experienced back home. Mexico is feeling rather familiar. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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