Cabo San Lucas Entertainment and Activities

Something that always worries residents and visitors alike is…What will I do if I get sick in Los Cabos? well, its entirely up to you what option you choose but let me tell you what happened to me….I´m a 58 year old married father of a teenage boy, although a gringo by birth, (American parents) I have lived in Mexico most of my life.

One Friday night, I fell asleep watching television in the family room a started to dream (I thought it was a dream, anyway) I felt sluggish and could not move, as I started to wake, I realized that I was not dreaming, I was having a stroke! My son, 14 at the time heard a crash (my head on a table as I struggled to move) and came into the family room, I could not speak, although I know what I wanted to say, I just could not say it, weird noises came out of my mouth. My son woke his mom and the called an ambulance, when it arrived the paramedic immediately diagnosed a TIA (Transient Ischemic Attack) or a baby stroke as it is sometimes called, a warning or shot accross the bow… I was only able to say one word, as it turned out, it was the right word: AMERIMED , the American Hospital in Cabo San Lucas, once there, the professional staff took superb care of me. My sister, a retired supervisor of adjusters for a major US insurance company, told me that I could not in a million years have received such good care even in the best stateside hospital. As it turned out my carothid artery was totally blocked, impeding the flow of blood and oxigen to my brain, in minutes I had a a cardiologist, a neurosurgeon and Dr. Moguel, dear Dr. Moguel a vascular surgeon who placed a stent in my artery and long story short, is one week I was as good as new! When traveling in Los Cabos or living here, the only word you need to know if you fall ill is AMERIMED…By the way, there is an Amerimed in Puerto Vallarta and Cancun as well.

Its been a while, but it appears that finally those sky high real estate prices in Cabo San Lucas are coming back down to reality. After a long sales dry spell sellers seem to have realized that in order to find buyers they needed to lower their expectations a notch or two. Frankly, real estate prices in the Baja have been way overpriced for some time now, back in the old days one could pick up a decent piece of land for a fraction of what it is going for lately, of course greedy brokers commanding 10% commisions had a lot to do with it, and a  commision fixing  local MLS sticking together helped them get away with it. But now, finally sellers have come to their senses and are pricing their property at more realistic prices, staying away from exclusive long term, high commision listing agreements and are doing what common sense (which by the way, is the least common of the senses) and offering their property for what the market can bear. Of course, there are those who can afford to maintain the high price or are just too stubborn to realize that it might be better to sell when people are willing to buy. More power to them…