San Felipe is a small town on the Sea of Cortez on the eastern side of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico. It's near the mouth of the Colorado river, around 120 miles due south of the California USA border. San Felipe is a rare combination of rugged desert, white sand beaches, turquoise sea, great views of high mountains towards the west,...
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Construction
Sunday, July 25 2010
Progress continued on my home addition at El Dorado Ranch constructed by EZ Homes (Miguel Zavaleta and Octavio Jiménez, tel 686 149 1969), while waiting for the roof that was poured last week to be...
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Phone/Internet
Friday, July 23 2010
Telcel have doubled the download data allowances on the Amigo (prepaid) 3G tariff, and introduced the "microchip" smaller SIM card needed by the iPad....
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Construction
Monday, July 19 2010
Week five, and my house addition at El Dorado Ranch by EZ Homes (Miguel Zavaleta and Octavio Jiménez, tel 686 149 1969) now has a roof....
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Construction
Sunday, July 11 2010
Last week the construction on my house addition by EZ Homes (Miguel Zavaleta and Octavio Jiménez, tel 686 149 1969) was nearing the top of the windows. Week four saw the arches for the windows and...
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Construction
Monday, July 5 2010
The construction of my house addition (casita) and perimeter wall by EZ Homes Construction (tel. 686 149 1969) at El Dorado Ranch has now completed the third week. During this week the concrete slab...
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Construction
Saturday, June 26 2010
This is the second article in my series on constructing at El Dorado using EZ Homes (Miguel Zavaleta and Octavio Jiménez). This week, the second week of construction, was very busy with a massive...
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Construction
Tuesday, June 22 2010
This is the first article in my series on having a house addition and a perimeter wall constructed at El Dorado ranch by EZ Homes (Miguel Zavaleta and Octavio Jiménez). I'll write a prequel later on...
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Transport
Tuesday, June 22 2010
Many of the sidewalk curbs (kerbs) in downtown San Felipe are painted with a parking restriction color code. They are rarely enforced, but it's useful to know what they mean as the same codes exist in...
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Utilities/Banking
Wednesday, June 16 2010
Today new limits were announced (DOF, in Spanish) on how many US dollars can be exchanged for pesos each month. These limits will come into force in 90 days (middle of Sepember 2010) for businesses,...
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Transport
Monday, May 24 2010
Driving directions to/from El Dorado Ranch in San Felipe for the Calexico East Gate, when turning LEFT at the T-intersection just beyond Customs....
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Utilities/Banking
Tuesday, May 11 2010
A step-by-step guide for viewing and paying your San Felipe CESPM water bill online, and details of how the water charges are calculated....
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Transport
Friday, April 23 2010
Satellite and aerial photos are available from several sources for San Felipe and the rest of Baja California. There are also street-level images from Google Street View in some areas....
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General
Sunday, April 4 2010
San Felipe doesn't get many earthquakes as it is south and west of the main fault lines. But a 7.2 quake south of Mexicali on Easter Sunday, 4th April 2010 at 3.40pm PDT was widely felt in the area....
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General
Wednesday, March 10 2010
(updated 2010 May 16) In May 2010 an update to the Mexican immigration procedures came in to effect. The FM-T tourist permit was replaced with an FMM permit, and you can no longer get an FM-3 outside...
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Phone/Internet
Monday, March 1 2010
Here are some instructions for calling US numbers from Mexico, and dialling Mexican telephone numbers from the US, Canada and other countries....
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Phone/Internet
Tuesday, February 23 2010
(updated 2010-Apr-14) If you have a Mexican cell phone (Telcel, Movistar) that you activated before April 2009, it will probably stop working after April 10th 2010 unless you register it with the new...
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