Yesterday was a very long day. On the map, it seems straight from Saltillo to Guadalajara. Well, it is through mountains and quite a few little towns where one has to come almost to a complete stop for speed bumps (some are monsters). Over 11 hours without a break except a couple of times to go to the bathroom and get gas. At one point, the temperature gage on the car was reading 38 C or about 100 F). Fortunately, we have air conditioning in the car. It was after 8 p.m. when we got here and did not seem to have any way to telephone to find a place to stay (Barb had several numbers). We were at the town square and the Ajijic Hotel is right there. We went to inquire about a room and in conversation discovered that they had some apartments around the corner (Jack & Kate, it’s the same one that Sonya stayed at!). We get a one bedroom apartment with full kitchen etc. for US$40 per night. We have it for 3 nights.
This morning after breakfast at David’s, we went to the office to see Damyn our agent. He took us to the notario to sign the application required of foreigners buying property in Mexico. The closing for the house is set for 10 a.m. on Friday and we can move into the house immediately!
Damyn then proceeded to take us on a tour around to Chapala, we got a few groceries, and picked up a fan (necessary here now). WE also are getting cell phones (2 phones for US$64). We just have to buy time on the phones as we use it--no fixed monthly charge. It is about 10 cents a minute for use to other cell phones, more to a land line. Still much cheaper than we were paying at home. We have a land phone number and the phone line should be installed in about a week. After that we get the equipment for DSL and we’ll be in business for the internet and our VoIP phone.
Thus, everything is falling into place very nicely. I’ll probably have more to report in a few days and when we get our own internet service.
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