Posted by Jay Livingston
One of these signs is what I typically see in New York. The other is what I saw in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where I’m spending a brief vacation (and not spending much time on the Internet).
The Mexican sign is the one on the right.
Cabo seems to exist only for the sake of American tourists. When I travel, I usually like to to get a sense of how life is lived in another country. That’s not what you get in Cabo. All livelihoods here are related to the tourist trade – the restaurants and gift shops, the time share complexes, the pharmacias selling Viagra and Cipro. It feels like being in some amalgam of a theme park and a colonial enclave.
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