alex here and i'm here in uh isla mujeres which is in kentucky and uh for those who aren't familiar this is the riviera maya it's a beautiful beautiful like by the caribbean we're off the coast of cancun and
uh yeah i'm hoping that the music in the background isn't getting picked up because i don't want to uh of course violate the rules about streaming audio but feel free to uh ask away about ital mujeres or mexico
or uh just anything really i'm here for five more days i'll be here until sunday i'm loving the chance to practice my spanish and to enjoy the sun it's such beautiful weather here it's really incredible if you've never
been here i definitely recommend checking it out before the secret gets out anymore i came here about four years ago and it was a lot fewer people but on the other hand it is feeling good for the people
that businesses here i thought that just was here she was really good my friends would say he uh he does a lot of good work here and uh tourism is the lifeblood of this area so it's not as
much a mystery in cancun it's a lot more kind of geared towards providing services to tourists businesses like aviation and voting yeah it's just so uh good picture perfect here i'll show you guys the beach okay shortly i
just uh don't want to get too shaky with the phone because i know i can throw off um [Applause] we're going into the waterstone [Applause] this is my travel backpack but it definitely needs to get replaced pretty soon
i think uh when i started getting paid and my new uh opportunity then i will probably replace my backpack something a little bit more new i've had this one for five years and it's been with me all over
the world but yeah i i think after 15 countries uh might be time for a manfrotto backpack something a little bigger and something geared toward uh another five years because i want to do a lot more traveling in
the next five years uh in the next five years i think turkey is on the list uh what else is on the list for the next five years the water got higher turkey is a big one also uh
argentina um i want to go back to thailand of course thailand has always been a special place in my heart [Applause] what else uh so we got thailand turkey or japanese [Applause] like [Music] india of course i haven't
been yet but i am indian and uh for vietnam my grandfather served over there uh for turkey i think it just i really want to just eat all the turkish spirits but now it's all the all the food
i see coming out of turkey it's really really good and uh argentina i think is another thing that another place where i do want to try to choose i also think it's interesting to kind of go to that
place where you do get incredible value with dollars because for those who don't know like one dollar right now if you go for a blue dollar rate you get like over 200 argentine pesos so it's uh you can
really really spend your money in buenos aires and yeah i think there's there's uh arbitrage opportunities there i'm all about geographic arbitrage and going to places that you get better value for money even though this place has gotten
more expensive in recent years i think especially since 2018 it's probably i would say it's at least 25 percent more expensive um than in 2018 but it's still much much cheaper than going to like florida uh or going
to like uh and you still get uh really interesting like you know influences here and you still have what you are in mexico as opposed to being in the united states but even the us you do have like
mexican influence from in los angeles and in texas and places that used to be part of mexico i may have to switch to uh the mic on my phone just because uh my earbuds are dying unfortunately so i
need to charge them up before i do another stream out here but it's just really stunning so let's uh let's show you guys what uh what's behind me yeah so we got the ocean the caribbean it's so so
stunning uh and then in front of me where uh you saw the backdrop before we have these beautiful trees like oh right in there yeah yeah so the palm trees are absolutely stunning and it's really an unforgettable place
um the last time i was here and i want to go see the same thing but i'll show you if you can see where the boat is the boat is like right out there and uh yeah it's just
uh really really interesting because when i was out there before uh oh sorry for the background noise so when i stopped there before uh i saw like thing rings and i saw like manta rays and i also saw
some really interesting fit um there is coral out there as well like over in that direction it's uh trying to show you so like in that direction near the mia resort they have coral and they also have a
variety of fish i'm not the best with naming or identifying species but there's a lot of variety here i'm sure if i need some looking i could attach it to the video description but yeah i know it's the
middle of the day so a lot of people are busy i hope you enjoyed checking this out a little bit later on when you get the opportunity it's just so glad to be on vacation it's just so nice
to have a break from work and to be able to be here in mexico and to share this with you all this is my first uh live stream from another country so that's that's a really big deal to
me to be able to do this in another country to have really good data i think i got like 3.5 gigs for like 15 including the price of the sim card so um that's you know it's not the
cheapest in the world i could get in cambodia for like seven bucks but we are here in a really really nice place and so i don't mind paying a little bit more if i'm having these like once-in-a-lifetime kind
of experiences there's really nothing like this place it's stunning uh arguably one of the best beaches in the caribbean but even the world i think i mentioned it earlier perhaps in my test trial but uh here you have
uh the only thing i've been through because potentially be a little bit comfortable is like white island in um on chemical island so it's like right off trending island and you can take like a boat over here and
it's stunning white sand beaches just like this and uh you really really feel uh like it's your own place now of course this place is getting more busy so there's a little bit less time to see there's a
bit more people but if you go further out if you swim further out um like i like oh hey we got a viewer good to see you good to see you i'm hearing this i wanted to do a
live stream at the beach i'm gonna have a little trouble reading messages the live chat okay there we go yeah just uh great to see you it's middle of the day i know in the us i guess it
is evening in uh europe but yeah i just uh saw the dentist this morning and that went really well hey kiki good to see you good to see you pc i guess it's around probably 8 p.m in ireland
i do apologize for the shaking i'm gonna try to sit down here and like prop my phone up so i can chat for a bit [Applause] yeah i'm okay it's not that late for some reason part of me
thought it would be uh later than that this is like the perfect place too for a live stream i wish i was gonna be here for more than a week i just love the palm tree in the background
so i decided to come to mexico it's just so uh so special in the u.s it's quite chilly yeah it is quite windy i hope the audio is not too affected it is pretty windy today um i think
we may have a little bit of rain this afternoon um but yeah it's a nice breeze i will say the water is a little bit chillier than when i was here in march of 2018 i think by march
april it's warming up a bit more uh but it's super popular to come here right now because chile here is of course much warmer than what we're used to in places like ireland places like the u.s i'm actually
not that far from the us i'm basically across the gulf of mexico from like texas or florida uh in the mexican caribbean i would like to see some other places but i think i'm going to run into the
same thing i ran into last time i was here last time i was here i had all these grand plans i'm going to go here and i'm going to go there i'm going to see kazuma i'm going to
see tulum i'm going to see probably the apartment and then ultimately i spent the entire week on this island because it's just such a nice place it's so peaceful you have around 12 000 inhabitants it is a bit
busier uh than it was five years ago i will admit four or five years ago but uh it's still quite a nice place and and it's a double-edged storage so i think i mentioned a little bit earlier but
on one hand it is a bit busier a bit more crowded but the people who live here can uh do better business you know they can find work more easily and they can just have an easier time with
that but uh i think i'm going to swap to uh my mic on my phone just because i need to charge my ear airpods yeah i just it's like something out of a movie um i i can't describe
it but i look forward to just spending more time here i definitely want to come back to this area again and again i think it's a place i could come like i don't know every couple of years it's
just so nice here and i ideally like i wanted to do this but i also was thinking i'm gonna be recovering from surgery surgery and not be able to use it so uh next time i come down here
i should have an underwater camera underwater camera is toward the top of my list as far as things i'd like to buy uh to improve the content of the channel because i think there's a certain base level of
equipment that you need to produce certain like quality content content that i want to produce and to make for you all and that's going to come in time but in the meantime i still think there's some there's some
cool things to to share and to show definitely uh let me know what you think down in the comments of uh isla mujeres it's really really beautiful i'll move my camera around a bit hopefully you guys can still
hear me but um lots of people getting sun i'm enjoying the sun of my skin too it just feels so good when compared to being in like darkness for so long in the us and working and being behind
the computer so if you're somebody likes ice cream they have these gentlemen uh vending ice cream down the beach so he's got a yeah he's got some ice cream there wait there we go okay yeah i was trying
to get me and him in the picture but yeah if you're somebody that likes ice cream you want to enjoy your cold treats on the beach this gentleman right here is got some great choices i had french toast
for breakfast and i've also had a strawberry smoothie so i don't need any ice cream right now but i'm sure it would be really tasty yeah beautiful white sand beaches different than the west coast of the u.s you
guys see some more like uh cold water from the pacific and it's more geared towards surfing here you're not going to see a lot of people surfing i imagine there may be a few kind of surf spots but
this is the atlantic so it doesn't uh it doesn't necessarily have the variety of the quality of surfing that you have in the pacific on the other hand if you're somebody who likes to swim you like to snorkel
you like to dive uh there is a lot of opportunity for that here so that's kind of the the trade-off and it's also warmer so you don't need a wetsuit to get in the water here uh where i
would suggest a wetsuit if you're going to be swimming in the pacific or attempting to dive in the pacific of course there's also not really like sharks here unlike the pacific because the water's too warm they do have
whale sharks here and well shark diving of course i'm a little bit skeptical of that because i think that from what i've read feeding the whale sharks can kind of disrupt some of their behavior patterns uh but on
the other hand that isn't the danger that you see in places like south africa places like uh santa cruz or san francisco uh near where i'll be living just because uh yeah that is uh that is a real
concern it's a real danger there are uh you know some attacks there in northern california but not not the case here not the case here that's something else i love about it is i haven't seen anything in the
water here that would make me nervous we'll see how it goes i apparently am lined up to interview a dive shop owner of the most we haven't scheduled it but a close friend of mine has connected us my
close friend who lives here on isla mujeres and i'd like to interview the gentleman and kind of share about his business and provide some promotion for him to let everyone know because he is reputable and i do want
this channel to serve as a vehicle for people to connect with uh good operators in the tourism industry because there's not all not all people in tourism uh are great you know some are providing better experiences or better
value than others and uh if i can kind of vouch for some of these people first hand by going on these experiences then i feel like i've done my job as far as the content creator goes there's uh
there's a lot of variety of course i'm not certified i've thought about doing the diving certification but i may not have enough time uh here on the island right now so we'll see it's much cheaper to get it
done outside of the u.s so if you're looking for like patty certification honduras is actually very popular for that i thought about doing mine in the philippines i actually almost did in the philippines when i was there last
time but i i don't want to get it and then not be able to use it for a long time so like my hope is i can get some remote work and then get certified and then be able
to do it like i don't know every other weekend or something like that i just i i've come to terms with the fact that i like tropical places i like warm weather and uh it's probably going to be
that way in the long term just because of my ethnic background most of my uh my genetic makeup is from places that are quite warm and tropical and so that's probably why i feel better in the sun and
i i feel better in the warm weather and the heat and just about what i'm evolving for even tennessee where i grew up is hot and humid too it's ironic but uh yeah i try and slap my earbuds
in just because i hear some music and i don't want to get in trouble with youtube [Applause] yeah it's it's oh it's really special um see if i can take you guys into the water a little bit or
at least over the water the combination of the sun is uh and the the water is a lot nicer and just great clouds in the water [Applause] and the waves are picking up a bit too so perfect i
can't wait to just go jump in the water i brought my uh camera gear with me so i don't want to just leave it on the beach i've heard that because there's more people here now it's a little
bit less safe a little bit more uh prone to um so that's something to be careful about is make sure to be careful with your valuables i haven't had any issues i didn't have any he says i can't
swim so i just be able to admire the scenery lol yeah it's it's it's still gorgeous and uh yeah something is challenging i will say there are some areas that are kind of more shallow closer in that you
can uh that's the word you don't necessarily have to swim in some showers but it is if you've had someone it's important to be very cautious uh with the ocean and to make an individualized decision on uh what
you can kind of do it's uh the same i agree the scenery is really really quite beautiful here and and you have um you have variety here so you have like isla which i love and i'm partial to
but you also have cozumel here uh tulum has gotten quite a bit more expensive but uh still a really popular destination uh you have uh puerto morelos which is a little bit sleepier a little bit more little keys
for example that's changing that they're building a lot in puerto morelos but they're really building a lot like around this whole area just because it's really appealing for a lot of reasons the weather the people the beaches the
water it's paradise it's it's really in paradise it's paradise as much as uh as much as i think most people become more to come up with when it comes to their vision of paradise there is a fair amount
of english on the island it actually surprised me because uh when i was traveling in colombia and in peru there's not as much english especially outside of bogota especially outside of lima you're just not going to get that
but because here they have so many western tourists that uh a lot of the local service staff does have some basic english especially on the island i i did do a little bit of walking in cancun it's a
little bit uh less the case because thing does have uh the sort of you have a tourist-based infrastructure and then you have like what i would describe as like the support infrastructure uh for the people that support the
tourism so like there's uh there's places that like you may go to see a uh a car mechanic or something like that well he doesn't really need to know english as much because there's just not as many uh
people uh getting their car uh fixed with english you know tourists are going to run plays for like a week or so and uh and then go back so uh so they don't need to have english as much
but he says i'd definitely be interested in seeing mexico yeah and this is just one part of mexico you know i'm glad that you uh mention that as far as like mexico as a whole because um this is
just like east coast mexico so i'm really partial to east coast mexico because when i come here wade 76 says landscape at um portrait mode okay oh it's please rotate the device back oh i need to edit the
orientation um oh well that that helped a lot because that flipped it around why it's confusing why they don't want uh i may not be able to uh i may not be able to get it in landscape mode
on this one i was trying to rotate it to start off and it just my phone wouldn't register that i am buying a new phone i would say within the next three months so i may just have to
stick with uh porsche mode for now just because uh it's not one to cooperate he says yeah so about mexico though but you also have um so here in mexico you also have oh okay thanks thanks wade uh
so you also have like mexico city mexico uh city of mexico and it's the capital city of mexico you've got like 20 million people if you're a fan of kind of the los angeles vibe i haven't been to
mexico city yet but i've done a lot of research and it's high on my list of cities so i have a list of countries i want to go to and a lot of a list of cities and a
lot of mexican cities are super super appealing to me because for me i'm i'm researching like remote working and like how i can take my career direction where i can work remotely i am interviewing with some companies that
i really want to work at i'm hoping things go well i'm hoping that in the long term if i can really demonstrate a lot of value for them that they'd be comfortable with me living in a place like
mexico or in latin america in general because i can be on the same time zone that's kind of one of the plans you know ideally i love southeast asia but i don't want to set myself up for failure
10 20 years down the road to take much much less money to do some kind of hustle in southeast asia but i could be working for a reputable company in the americas saving money uh contributing to social security
contributing to my ira these kinds of things that really are crucial to maintaining strong finances uh so that's kind of something that is on my mind where i do look at places like guadalajara mexico city cabo as places
that i want to research and i want to check out i think that i will eventually do a trip where i spend several months in mexico where i do like a month in mexico city a month in guadalajara
a month in cabo um you know ensenada tijuana area and that way i get a real feel uh not just for what it's like to visit mexico as the taurus but what to mexico and i think it will
be really interesting to see the differences in the similarities between colombia and peru it's kind of funny but i saw you know one of my mexican friends here and we were talking about travel and it was similar to
my conversation the conversations i've had with kiki uh where kiki mentioned being interested in the united states uh because it's a little bit different than where she's from and my friend said the same thing because i started talking
about colombia and peru argentina and he said well you know we're a little bit more interested in america because it's different it's different than what we're used to chile argentina and these places are more similar to mexico so
i thought that was kind of funny and i could really relate to that because i love america but i also traveled a lot in america that's something i've taken for granted for a lot that i've visited about two-thirds
of the states i've done a lot of what i want to do in the u.s i'd say there aren't some things i still want to do but there's a lot more things i haven't done in like mexico and
canada and even thailand even thailand the place that i've spent a lot of time almost more than any country comfortable with colombia there's a lot to see there as well that's going to be really really cool but but
i've gotta enjoy what i'm doing now and be in the moment and mexico is really really uh good for that it's really good for being in the moment for uh being present and so it can be difficult to
stream and uh and do that kind of thing here while i'm on vacation but it's crucial i gotta share this stuff i gotta share this stuff with the audience and with all of you wade says ever considered usa
jobs or mwr jobs abroad use them to get you overseas and if you freelance or do extra jobs in the sides you know i thought about that wade and that is really really interesting and appealing to me i'll
look into it where i'm what i'm looking at right now is moving back to northern california because i can get a there's a job that i'm hoping goes well i'm scheduling my interview with the hiring manager tomorrow or
thursday but it's with the reputable company and the deals and equities and uh so it would be kind of a route into the financial world and i think there's a lot to be done about having a career in
finance i'm fascinated with finance it's really interesting and uh kind of being able to get in a financial role where i can take that uh overseas and just have that one job i have in the past done side
hustles and things like that of course you could call my youtube a side hustle i put a lot more money into it than i've got now not a big deal but um i like the idea of having a
solid career with an employer that i know is going to keep winning in the long term without revealing too many details of this new opportunity it is a job and an employer that i can stick with for 20
30 years there are a few companies like that but this company has been around for at least i think 100 years and to and so that is a pretty big appeal to me hey we got some more people
good to see you all but yeah that's a great great question wade i am considering that and that could be a backup plan like if this auburn doesn't work out i i want to continue to look at opportunities
that could lend themselves to me making an american salary but living in a much lower cost of living i want that arbitrage where i'm earning a larger sub but then getting really good value for my money mexico certainly
provides that there's there's a lot to be said about uh there's a lot to be said about the value that i experienced up here in ken cooney arguably cancun provides less value than say some other places um that
aren't tourist hotspots where here you're not just competing with local uh mexican people to purchase things but you're also competing with tourists from around the world germany uk ireland uh united states even japan i'm pretty sure i saw
some japanese tourists earlier i've definitely seen some chinese tourists here it's getting a lot more international here because previously i think people associated mexico with extreme danger and now people are starting to find out hey they're just trying
to keep it a secret it's actually a wonderful place to be i'm not gonna say it's as safe as some places in the u.s but honestly i feel a lot safer here than u.s it's really a tough discussion
sometimes with other americans they're like oh you're going to mexico it's been so bad isn't it such a big deal and i'm like i feel safer here than i do like in my home city like nashville in tennessee
doesn't feel like that's safe to be honest there's there are crime issues in that city mr garcia says hola brother have a safe state and don't forget to smell the roses thank you so much mr garcia i will
definitely be smelling the roses i i'm enjoying this ocean breeze it's it's uh it smells incredible the the salt water and the uh the beautiful sun and the ceviche i had some wonderful ceviche oh it it's so good
the ceviche here in my opinion it's a different than peruvian ceviche i think it's if i had to rank it i think it's better at least what i had i'm better than the ceviche in cusco but perhaps not
as good as the ceviche in lima but of course ceviche is a peruvian dish i wouldn't well it could be i guess you could call it mexican i'm not even saying it was it was um not as good
only that in peru they have certain ingredients that they don't have here so they're like the ig i do pepper they didn't have that here and i really like that now maybe they presented to me i just didn't
see it uh but that's something i do like i like that spice i like that beef and so when i do go to some places here i am looking for that pepper sauce that hot sauce the the real
kick that you can get from those foods that's something that i love about traveling in mexico is that it's there's no shortage of flavors even in the u.s i'm eating mexican food like at least two times a week
i should be able to come to mexico and have mexican food here and it's a real treat and it's something i don't take for granted like the the there's so much like it's hearty you know that's the way
i would describe a lot of mexican food as it's hearty generally you have your protein you have your fat it's hearty and it's flavorful you have i like beans you have rice you have avocado you have lime juice
it's all these things in combination that every bite is satisfying you know it's everybody's satisfying and also you know something else i think too is you're seeing some people in mexico really get ahead and really enter the middle
class like as they mentioned this place is more and more appealing to mexican people you know it's not just the europeans it's not just the americans but it's also local mexican people that they want to go to the
beach too they want to enjoy the ceviche they want to enjoy the sand and the sun and the water and so it's i like to see that i don't like to go just to places where you only see
western people are able to uh access this kind of thing um i'm looking forward to february mr horses i'm looking forward to february i'm getting 15 days in puerto vallarta and the surrounding area that's perfect 15 days is
perfect i'm just here for seven in total i wish i could do two weeks because you really get to relax a bit more and get a little bit more into like the day-to-day of things with a couple of
weeks i am grateful for the time i have here i'm so fortunate to have friends that live here on the island and they do host me which is extremely generous and considerate i hope to be in that position
myself one day as far as being able to host people because i think it's just so wonderful to share mexico with people like the in the way that he can because uh he talked me into it my friend
jose that lives here in isla because when he told me about it you know we were kept together at burning man and each of us in that camp at burning man was tasked with uh preparing one meal for
the whole camp and we had around i'd say we had around 30 people in camp maybe 25 and so each each meal somebody would have to prepare uh 25 different meals i think i'm going to get up and
move just because there's a little bit of noise around here yeah we're just gonna run over to this other palm tree so okay wow so yeah so uh what was i talking about um oh yeah so burning man
so jose and i camped together burning man and each person had to prepare one meal uh per you know during the event and uh i made i think i made it like falafels yeah i think i made like
falafels and served them with pita and hummus and jose made tacos and jose's tacos uh were the best meal of the entire week and i got to talking with jose i was like jose i eat tacos like all
the time in my home city i i think that when it comes to food at least in america latinos are some of the only people that are serving substantial portion sizes a lot of these restaurants i go to
i'm still hungry after i eat there but that doesn't happen with mexican food it doesn't happen they're serving so much um food that i actually am satisfied it's hard to satisfy me when it comes to portions and so
here's me you should come down i'm like ah but i've heard you know some things and he's like oh no where i am is safe it's beautiful and um so i took his word for it and i came
down about four years ago and it it blew my mind it just it was so so different than what i expected it kind of was pandora's box for me in a way when it comes to travel because uh
after i realized a lot of people are lying about mexico or they're just talking about what they've heard on the news i uh i realized oh wow there's a lot of places out there that i'm sure are really
really wonderful beautiful places that uh i just haven't really considered before that uh they have a lot to offer but because there's some kind of stigma or maybe it was dangerous 30 40 50 years ago that it's still
dangerous today and that's not the case wade says wade says i saw a crazy video about the guanajuato exploding camera festival yeah that's pretty well that doesn't sound too safe wait but i'm sure it's a blast i don't
know if i could handle an exploding hammer festival um i think i'm a little bit more interested in perhaps uh some of the traditional festivals like cinco de mayo also uh via de los muertos so they have the
dad these kinds of things that are an important part of mexican history that's another thing too like if you're a fan of history if you want to like learn about world history if you want to learn about history
in the americas um sometimes i get a little bit tired of hearing about american history because it usually gets political uh which tends to be divisive right i'm more community minded i like coming together and and that kind
of thing uh then here you can learn about politics and yes there is tragedy i'm not gonna downplay the tragedy in mexico but it's it's different you know you maybe it's just me maybe it's just the people i
know but it seems like people here are a little bit more in touch with uh mexican independence you know mexican american independence happened in the late 1700s i think mexican independence didn't happen until like the early 1800s so
several decades later and you could say that mexico is continuing to establish itself where the u.s in some ways seems a bit more established on the world scale i think mexico still feels like um they're they're growing more
and and there is that attitude of i think optimism here i i asked my buddy from venezuela about that i was like why does it seem like so many people in latin america are so optimistic and he's like
well that's all we got sometimes all we have is the optimism um so yeah it's something to think about too is that in some of these places where people have had more difficult lives um or at least the
average person has a more difficult life people are a little bit more in touch with what's important to them i think and and for me coming to these places has allowed me to become more in touch with what's
important to me friendly people are important living in a community a high-test community where people they trust each other they like each other they greet each other you see people that have been friends for decades meeting at the
same cafes the same restaurants at the same part this kind of thing is just really really appealing to me and and you know when i was younger i liked the change i wanted everything to change and oh it
needs to change and the older i get the more i'd like things to stay the same so come back here and see jose after four years is it's really really wonderful to see uh maurice who's partner maurice she's
uh really wonderful as well it's really really a special thing and i am getting that thing where the walters world talks about for those who don't know walter's world is one of my favorite youtube travel youtubers and uh
he talks about like people are asking him hey are you going here are you going there he says well you know next year our goal is to go back to a lot of places we've already been we want
to go see our friends he's saying about i want he wants to go to argentina he studies abroad there he wants to go back to argentina and see his old friends and uh same with like portugal he went
to portugal and italy as well so these are some things to consider is that if you do really do like a lot of research on places that you want to go and places you want to spend your time
um you may end your search early you may find yourself like i want to go back to the same places over and over again instead of constantly looking for new places i will say the next place i go
is probably going to be a new place even if i go back to southeast asia depending on how much time i have i i'd like to start off in like vietnam and then work my way over to thailand
i'd also like to visit cambodia but vietnam i haven't been to yet and i've had some vietnamese american friends and i think that it would be it'd be really enlightening to go to that place and visit hanoi visit
saigon i visit the beaches of vietnam i've heard natrang and danang are both wonderful beaches that you can have this wonderful beach experience they're one of the most budget-friendly if not the most budget-friendly beaches in the world are
in vietnam and yeah that's super super appealing oh thanks so much for i says just stay where you are alex it looks like this place where it's not in san francisco oh totally you know i used to think
i wasn't a beach person uh but i think i am a beach person i i really do part of me thinks like oh i get tired of the beach but the reality is uh you come to the beach
as little or as much as you want if you live near the beach but if you don't live near the beach uh it is more of a more of a chore to get to the beach so that's something
that uh i've got to consider sometimes maybe some beach areas uh feel a little bit touristic but then i also have to consider they're touristy because they're wonderful places they're appealing to a lot of people because a lot
of people would like to come here i'm gonna plug in my charger really quick i got the low battery warning on my phone wade says join the military do four years uh as an at with the i.t field
then get it set up with va benefits and you get a disability and education benefits that can be used abroad you know wait i've really been thinking about that i'm not gonna lie i really have been thinking about
uh joint voluntary i actually read to a uh an air force recruiter and i think that would be a really smart kind of conservative approach to the living abroad thing um i really like this youtuber his name is
forest lee if you guys haven't seen him he's i think he's chinese american ethnically chinese but from america and uh he's he i don't know if he's retired from the military or if he just finished out his contract
but he lives in thailand and he makes a lot of really really cool content uh out there so check him out bikes f-o-r-r-e-s-t and then lee is his last name coast guard okay yeah i'll look into the coast
guard as well it seems like a really smart way uh to kind of have that baseline where for my understanding you know if you stay long enough you do get these benefits and stay with you for the rest
of your life my grandfather he was actually in the service he served 20 years in the army and that service has basically granted my grandmother healthcare for the rest of her life and she also gets of course his
military pension and really has done a lot to take care of her i think that's a really good option for a lot of young guys and gals to uh to consider if they're growing up in the us they
want to live abroad they know they want to explore other countries they want to try this kind of lifestyle out that they're gonna have that reliability you know it's it's uh provides a bit more um a bit more
predictability or stability than safe freelancing i think freelancing is really really good for a lot of people i did freelance a little bit in the past as far as the sales but i think that the military is with
the us military it's not going anywhere anytime soon and that uh you're talking about institutions that have stood the test of time i think that um there are a few today that are really comparable and you know they're
not going to run out of money you know they're not going to delay payment which can be a hassle in freelancing even if you're like a freelancing attorney an attorney i hired several years ago a friend of mine
worked for him and told me he even had a hard time tracking down payments and that seems like the last kind of person you want to mess with to be a lawyer but coast guard is the best military
non-military in the state stateside four years passes quickly lots of benefits yeah you know i'm going to look more into that and i'm going to reach out i'm going to reach out to the coast guard recruiter and try
to check that out a bit more i think i could i'd have to get a waiver because i'm 29. uh that's kind of what appealed to me about the air force is airforce will allow you to join even
up to like 39 years old or i think at least be employed by the air force up to 39 as far as lower positions i'm sure there the general is the higher ups there's more leeway and forgiveness as
far as age goes that i tend to see people like the general ranges people that are more in like the 50s and you know that kind of age range but yeah strongly strongly recommend checking out the military considering
the military if you're a young person and you don't have tons of family money and connections but you want the lifestyle the internet has really democratized uh a lot of these kinds of things you know that's that's the
thing about places like mexico is it seems like at a time you know at one time in a less global society that uh it would be much more difficult to come to this place with no spanish and uh
no internet you know uh i i discovered it through uh okay cool no wait says no age waiver needed for 29 so i would be uh cool yeah i'll definitely uh hit you up if uh if i decide
wait i really appreciate you mentioning that it's a strong opportunity certainly to all the viewers if that's something you're interested in if you are in the us or an american then i would consider it because i i also
i really admire the military for being able to teach young people discipline i think the discipline in some ways is lacking uh for a lot of young people and i think that a lot of young people want that
direction they want responsibility they're craving it uh especially i think a lot of young men in the u.s but that due to various circumstances tragedies like in my case my father passed when i was 10 my mother passed
when i was eight so i just didn't have that that just wasn't an option it wasn't a personal responsibility situation at that point because certainly children are responsible for the tragedy but what i will say is that even
though i've gone through these things and it's not my fault for going through these things it is my responsibility to address these things right it is my responsibility to do the best i can to work hard to give
it my all and my job uh to try to bring my best self to my relationships and to every aspect of life one of my favorite quotes is how you do anything is how you do everything and it's
really important i think to have discipline to iron out those weak spots through something you don't know about if it's health if you have insecurities about your money if i don't know you have any kind of issues which
we all do fifty percent of your efforts need to be uh attempting to to sort those out and i'd say the other fifty percent needs to be self-exp accepted self-love uh for example if you're you're you have a
serious disability that's not solvable well you can't just you know work hard to fix that kind of thing in some cases right as you have to say you know what i'm going to love myself even though i'm not
you know the situation isn't ideal but on the other hand you have to think okay i'm in this situation like in my case not having folks i could just give up and go live on the street in a
box of course i didn't do that i don't do that i worked really hard unfortunately i earned enough i'm in a country like us where i can earn enough to pay my own way but i really took initiative
on my part and i'm i don't think i would be as disciplined as what i do have if i hadn't had influence from my grandfather up until i was about three he passed away uh he uh he's a
really really good guy and really gave a lot gave everything for for our country so um thank you so much for your service by the way wade i really appreciate it i appreciate all service members anybody who set
makes these significant sacrifices uh for the united states they deserve our respect something else too um that you mentioned uh wade is that uh you could stay stateside and i go kind of back and forth on that you
know sometimes like i have interest in the idea of living overseas or being stationed overseas uh but i also worry what if i get stationed in like siberia what if i get stationed in uh you know tragically the
middle east even that could be quite you know that's i think the stereotype is oh i'm going to get stationed in like somewhere really really okinawa where it's tropical paradise but the reality is there's limitations on how much
control you have over where you're stationed wait says i was u.s marine corps to iraq after about 11 finished the contract and joined the coast guard saved so i could help out save lives not really them not really
i see well thank you so much for your service in the marines the marines for really really you know they're my perception from the research i've done they have some of the most stringent requirements in the us military
they have the highest standards uh for the physical tests or um to the cleaning for um a lot of these different things that some other branches may be a little bit more relaxed about so i think that that
you really deserve more credit there uh for attempting to not go the easy round because marines is certainly not easy i would not call the us marine corps easy at all it's it's a difficult branch and a a
really important institution i think i'm gonna go for about seven more minutes um guys i think that'll be about an hour and then i've got to roll back to pay my dentist i i need to i had about
80 percent of what i needed to pay her and then i needed to hit up the atm to get the rest so i gotta go get that here because she's going on vacation i started about 3pm my postcode
career houston usb is usa 2010 wow that's that's been 11 years now that's really something else you're really doing it out there uh 11 years that's congratulations like uh service members that they uh they come back from overseas
and they're they feel sometimes strangers in their their uh oh i see i see by choice okay cool cool and so you've gotten to explore a lot of these places uh with um but but being paid to do
so you know rather than coming out of pocket like uh me you're actually able to [Music] have money coming in when they've uh they don't really plan out what they're going to be doing they they imagine themselves like
drinking margaritas on the beach and that's wonderful for like a week but like that's not a real life that's not a lifestyle that's um that's not the same as having purpose and contributing and uh and knowing what you're
gonna do uh most of the time kind of having a base it's something to base your life around like for these 40 or 50 or 60 hours a week i know that sometimes they have long duty shifts in
some cases i imagine you could be on call 24 hours if you're in a certain situation um you've got things to do and you kind of do the fun things around that rather than trying to find enough fun
things to fill up your day i think he says i fear it'll take the size of the philippines to fully rebuild the infrastructure destruction was absolutely shocking the hole got hit pretty hard pretty bad white says i visited
the philippines without station guam that's so that's so sad geeky i i haven't looked at the pictures yet i know that uh from what i've heard as far as from paul uh that he and may have been having
to go into town to a coffee shop and they're trying to limit it to like one hour just to get internet service that they don't have internet and the power is out and they don't have water and that's
just a horrible tragedy it's really really sad because you know it really it really hurt a lot of poor filipinos the hardest the people that are living in the the flood-prone areas the more low-lying areas perhaps the land
is a bit more marshy or a little bit harder to be productive on um i'm really sorry to hear that i actually dated a woman from behold uh when i was saying when i visited sibu so i visited
in 2019 and dated her and she talked about her how her family has like a resort there on behold and they do some farming and i tried to check in with her but uh i think maybe she moved
on i don't know we were kind of like a thing and you know the philippines closed down and and i got into work and being busy and wasn't able to stay in touch with her as well as i
wanted to and uh yeah i guess people got to move on it is that is kind of the sad part about world travel is you do have to kind of like accept if you're going to a lot of
new places that some of the places and the uh the people in the places that you left behind they can't wait around forever so not that i i didn't make any promises or anything like that but it's it's
something to consider that if you want to build and kind of have the con happening gains you may have to um find you're going to have to research the extent you find places that make you the happiest and
then just focus on going back to those places over and over again but yeah definitely keep the philippines in your thoughts if you're following my channel because it's really a difficult time over there and a lot of people
are really already beaten down from the pandemic restrictions not being able to uh serve tourists and to take it a step further a lot of uh destruction has happened people have lost their homes people lost their businesses people
have lost their family members people have lost everything in some cases i'm definitely going to be trying to research read about that and talk about that on my next stream uh i'm bringing a little bit more awareness to
now because we don't talk about as much in the united states you're not connected to the philippines i said american you're just not as familiar i should check in with menchie as well i have a friend named minji
she's a filipina her family still owns property in cebu but we went to grade school together in nashville and i'm going to check in with her make sure her family that's still over in cebu is okay wade says
i visited the philippines 2016 2018 good choices good choices philippines is incredible i i love the philippines if the uh we're the infrastructure better when it comes to internet i would probably live in the philippines long term the
only issue i had was just trying to get service even in cebu city was really really quite difficult and for me because i have to make such a strong commitment to working online uh i can't i can't compromise
you know that's non-negotiable for me as far as world travel is i need strong internet because if i'm going to travel for six months at a time i can't just take a a six month long vacation or a
year-long vacation i've got to be able to have some money coming in and also learn i get bored easily so for me uh working a lot and being productive helped save off boredom for me trying to get things
done trying to help people trying to uh do the hard stuff it's one of my favorite quotes is hard decisions easy life uh easy decisions are in life so it is a tough decision to go to a lot
of these places and be working there are times where i'm like i just want to put up the computer and go for a walk walk through the city or walk along the beach and i have to get things
done i still have to contribute to the teams and the people that are reliant upon me to be successful but yeah i think we're at the top of the hour if you guys want to just get in any
last questions done i really appreciate you all joining me today at isla mujeres it's really a stunning beautiful place i'm looking forward to the rest of my week here i'm going to be going swimming snorkeling maybe do some
scuba diving definitely going to be doing plenty of walking and filming i want to try to film buildings of isla but it might be a little bit different difficult my legs are already pretty beaten up from the amount
of walking i've done on some short notice but even so it'd be really cool to share a building's video because there's plenty of videos out there on isla but not as much focusing on the uh the architecture which
is so fascinating fascinating to me that i don't know you know there's a stereotype that you're going to go to other countries you're going to see only 10 shacks and like mud huts or something which is not the
case at all i see people living in absolutely stunning homes gorgeous homes most people in my opinion would be incredibly proud to live and well maintained not just uh big houses but well maintained homes wait says enjoy watching
your channel your outlook and problem solving is so motivating thank you so much wade i really appreciate that i i really appreciate you taking the time to share about your experiences in the coast guard i i thank you
for your service and your contributions to to our country and to the world um and yeah i hope you guys have a wonderful week ahead of you it's it's so beautiful here wherever you are i hope it's uh
if it's cold at least you're cozy and you have a hot food on the table so um yeah until next time i'll see you all later
