Phone/Internet
Tuesday, October 11 2011
Telcel Amigo is a prepaid phone account in Mexico. If you don't add money to it for a while, you can lose the balance on it, and eventually your number. To avoid this, you should add some money...
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Transport
Friday, September 2 2011
When your car (or other vehicle) is registered in Mexico (for example with Baja California plates) you have to get a domestic insurance policy. You can't use "tourist" type policies intended...
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Transport
Sunday, June 19 2011
If you're a full time resident of San Felipe, you may be able to import your car from the US or Canada, so that it has Baja California plates. In this article, I'll cover whether and how you can do...
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General
Saturday, April 9 2011
Many products are available in both Mexico and the USA from the same manufacturer. But there are differences in the ingredients in each market, which can make them taste very different....
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Phone/Internet
Thursday, March 31 2011
Amazon's Kindle is a electronic book reader. It can store thousands of books, and download new books wirelessly. There are some small differences in the way a US-based Kindle operates when in Mexico,...
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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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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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General
Friday, January 1 2010
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...
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