I heard myself today See if I still feel Here's your story, let's begin The waters find command of you The future's here, it's right before your eyes Hello again This video is going to cover a few things I'm going to cover tips that will hit some of the highlights of the past 150 videos Some important things to know, particularly if you're new I'm also going to do a medical update towards the end Or the last segment of this video, depending on how I end up editing it And I want to do a thank you again to all the patrons All the Patreon account people I thank you so much It's been huge for me, it may not seem like much But it's been huge for me, and thank you so much for that So let's get on to the tips You're going to do a lot of bus riding Now in the US, I never rode buses In the Marine Corps, they stuck me on a bus once for infantry training or something But I vaguely remember it Here you're going to ride buses all the time If you're doing any kind of distance traveling From Quenke to Loehaw or more Always try to get towards the front of the bus You don't want to ride in the rear of the bus Buses have bad suspension And when you get in the back of that bus, everything is pronounced You'll be bouncing all over the place You'll be like one of those Bobboy had dolls You're going to get seasick on land It's uncomfortable Try to get in the first third of the bus The closer you can get to the front, the more comfortable your ride is going to be No, running around the city doesn't make any difference They're all uncomfortable Another important tip Always carry change for the taxis Don't hand the taxi a big bill Because miraculously, they never seem to have change You're going to run into a lot of them Particularly if they knew they can tell that they're new And you could see a bucket of change in this console And it'll still tell you he doesn't have change Just figures you'll forget about it, just give them the money I carry a lot of $1 coins and a couple of 50 cent coins in my pocket When you're traveling the bus, again, not local But if you're going to city to city Always carry some change, a few dimes, a few quarters Why is that you ask? First of all, if you need to use a toilet at the bus stops They're going to charge a 10 cents, sometimes up to 25 cents And as bearish as it may be, they ask you if you have to pee or if you have to poo Because one's going to cost more than the other But that's the way it is Even if you carry your own toilet paper, which I highly recommend Because they might give you one little tiny tissue for your 10 cents You know, a carry your own toilet paper If you have to blow your nose or something, I mean, that's what you need to do So throw a little in your backpack But carry change also when you leave some of the bus terminals The one in Quenka for sure The one in Quenka has a vending machine You put in a dime and it's out of a little paper ticket And then there's a guy that's sitting there And you have to give it to him if you want to exit out into the bus Others, they'll incorporate it in the price of that ticket That makes it a lot easier Keto does that But you want to have coins for those situations So when you're riding a bus, carry $5 or $6 worth of coins And a $1 worth of change Shorts in the Andes You don't really want to do it It's, first of all, the weather changes quite a bit And what's hot It noon might be kind of chilly at 5 The other thing is, and you don't have to care about this But you stand out like a sore thumb And people kind of, oh, there goes the new green ghost And you know, we shouldn't worry about those things And frankly, I don't But they're not practical And that's why people don't really wear shirts I suggest that you carry in a mask I suggest that you carry an umbrella and a jacket Now, you might want to assemble like a day backpack They'll have some bottle of water Some toilet paper An extra shirt Maybe a jacket A light jacket, rain proof Sticking umbrella in there You know, just a small thing that you can carry I don't But if it looks like it's going to rain If I suspect it's going to rain, I'm taking umbrella You don't want to stand out for 5, 6, 7, 8 minutes and pouring rain Trying to get yourself a taxi You stand under an umbrella It's not a big deal Watch where you walk Well, Quenka has made a lot of progress in new sidewalks and roadways There are still a lot of areas where it's a minefield There's pot holes that come up out of nowhere You can really hurt yourself When you're new here Your first month I highly, highly recommend You find yourself a local guide I don't necessarily mean one of these people that are going to get you visas And that sort of function I have different feelings about that But a local guide, I call them a cultural guide It saved me so much time and so much money That it actually didn't cost me anything When I looked back and I figured out What I would have spent if I did this or that Maria, who was the one that helped me introduce by a friend She taught me so many things about taxis and buses And finding rentals and dealing with utility offices And all the things that you have to contend with to live here She taught me so much about it That I know having gone through it What I would have done and how problematic those would have been How much money she has saved me in not having lost the posits Not having maintenance problems with landlords Not paying too much for rent All of those things she taught me And that has saved me hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of dollars And because of that I highly recommend to you That you find yourself a cultural guide for the first, maybe first month And during that time they can take you to the ruins and museums Explain the culture, the history How to behave, how to talk Maybe a little Spanish I definitely recommend it Okay, this may be a pet grape of mine but I am so sick of this I hate this You have to really, really be careful of bone fragments in meat I haven't gotten in a restaurant but when you buy it And I don't just meet at the Mercado where you see him with a cleaver And it's obvious but super maxi for example You cook everything, you look it over, you cook everything You bite into it and there's a big piece of bone fragment This has been covered I think even if you haven't been here you know this But choose your fruits and vegetables carefully Your cultural guide can help with this when you first get here Learn who the good vendors are and who to avoid They definitely know a local person knows that Also you want to wash them You don't want to have a meat but problems Everyone talks about the omurzos, the lunch Only $2.50, $3.50 and that's true And they're everywhere, you can't walk down a city block without hitting a couple Thank you for watching