Product Description

Head for Mexico was edited by Teresa Kendrick, the author of a highly respected guidebook to the Lake Chapala area of Mexico. Her years of experience in living and working in Mexico add an invaluable facet to this book. Bill Haslbauer is a retired Texan who, along with wife Neva retired to Mexico and offered to share their experiences with you. The definitive book on single women moving to Mexico was written by Karen Blue and she shares with you some of her unique insight into what all that entails. Mark Farley has spent years teaching English in placement service. Mark has an extensive network of people who provide information on an astounding variety of locations. and finally, Judy King, who has years of experience in the business world of Mexico and currently co-publishes with Blue, a newsletter about life in Mexico, has provided a touch of her clear-eyed but affectionate prose about her adopted country.

In addition, if you don't find the answers to your questions in Head for Mexico the author provides a website and email address so you can contact him personally. This is the only book to offer the readers exactly the information they need in order to make an informed decision about a possible move to Mexico and it may well be the funniest book you read this year.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #244909 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-11
• Released on: 2006-07-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

About the Author
Don "Adan" Adams currently lives in San Juan Cosala, Jalisco, Mexico with Pirata the One-eyed Wonder Dog, and Max and Mona the totally untrained but lovable brother and sister felines. Since the early 60's he has travelled in many parts of Mexico and finally after several years of living part-time in many places in Mexico retired to full-time Mexico living five years ago.

A Navy veteran who served in DaNang, RVN in 1966-67, he graduated from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas after his discharge. He worked as a truck driver, an oilfield roughneck, a landscape company owner, an insurance adjuster, an auto-body shop manager, an ESL teacher in Mexico, and a coach and public school teacher of behaviorally disordered Special Education students in Texas.

He has published articles in specialty magazines, won awards for fiction, and currently writes a monthly column for the world's largest Mexico-related web site. This is his first full length book. He is currently researching a book on the history and craft of the Zapotec weavers of Teotitian del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Customer Reviews

Funny slice of life SOB.
Funny review of the pitfalls that can befall you when moving to another country. Thought provoking and entertaining.I plan on moving to Mexico soon and I hope avoid most of the pitfalls he has pointed out.

My two cents...
Okay, read all the other reviews, because they are awesome.

One thing I will add to them:

The author has a section about who should and should not move to Mexico. It's very realistic. I mean, we're talking heat, bugs, water that can make you wish you were dead, things that will drive the impatient up a bloody wall. Mexico isn't America! Don (I felt like we were on a first-name basis) keeps saying "If...you should NOT move to Mexico!"

The picture indelibly etched in my mind came from (paraphrasing now) Don's admonishment: If you can't handle animals in the street, both dead and alive, don't move to Mexico!

When I finished this book, I wanted to move to Mexico SO BAD!!! I started sort of dreaming in Spanish, what's in there still from when I studied it thirty years ago in college. That's never happened to me before....

Lots of flavor in this book. Lots of realism. Lots of very good information, things you're going to need to know that I never would have thought of. Lots of sensitivity and love for the Mexican people, too.

I imagine Don as kind of the Crocodile Dundee of Mexico. I hope DH and I get to meet him in person one day....

*****Great book***** for those who wish to live in Mexico!!!!!!!!!!!
Hola, I loved this book and have learned so much about living in Mexico that I feel like I have already been living there for a year!! Don Adams' writing is like you are right there talking with him and he doesn't mince words about anything and everything. An honest in your face book that covers every single thing you could ever want to know and a whole a lot more that you didn't know you needed to know. Some things will shock you and I am so glad I know about them. Written in a style that is so easy to read and keeps you laughing, too. Fabulous - you don't want to put it down. You will love this book and will want to keep it forever. This is the best book on living in Mexico that I have ever read - you don't need to buy any more books about this subject - just this one! And I will be moving either to Ajijic in the Lake Chapala area or San Miguel de Allende very soon. Tough choice as both towns in the mountains are marvellous! Thanks Don Adams! Adios