Sunday, January 31, 2016

MOVING TO MEXICO...OUR MOTORHOME WAS OVERLOADED! WHAT TO DO???



The Motorhome Was Packed for Our Move to Mexico

Dinette Area Was Packed Very Efficiently!
     Our move to Mexico required more work than we anticipated. As a result, I'm a bit behind on my writing. Here's my first catch-up article about our exciting move to Mexico....
     By October 21, Jon and I were ready to move to Mexico.  The motorhome was packed and ready to roll! We had sold all of our worldly belongings except a few of our treasures, tools, and necessities. We felt free!
     We had done some research on the Expat Blog (now www.Expat.com (for Mexico)) about whether to tow a trailer behind the motorhome to move our belongings to Mexico. The importation of personal property by land is allowed by Mexico, but only up to $300 per person (garage sale value) duty free. The consensus from the folks chatting on this Expat Blog discussion was that a trailer full of stuff might cause more scrutiny by the border guards. So we opted to cram as much as we could into our motorhome, trying not to overload it.
     Our carefully packed boxes, plastic containers, and black trash bags contained just enough for us to start our new life in Mexico. We planned to buy a casita, a small home with minimal furnishings, so we weren't bringing any furniture and very few dishes. The forty small "containers" of stuff we planned to bring didn't look like that much before we loaded it. But as we prepared to move our stuff into the motorhome, we realized the challenges were going to be:

To read more, click on this link: 
Retirement Before the Age of 59: MOVING TO MEXICO...OUR MOTORHOME WAS OVERLOADED! WHAT TO DO???: 
A Welcome Rest at Mar Rosa RV Park in Mazatlan
     To read a sample of my book "Healthy Living and Traveling in Mexico", Click HERE  and then click "Look Inside" on the Amazon.com website. If you enjoy my book, please leave a review on Amazon.com. Have fun in Mexico!

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