Some people have asked about the actual work part.
I loved that the trip was paid for. Even though a lot of my adventures took place in La Paz or Cabo, we basically shot in La Ventana, which is just a tiny little city where cows are just out there roaming around, which was so fun.
I saw more lizards than I’ve ever seen. They hang out in your room too.
We were told a million times not to drink the water. We even got like a GIANT jug of water a week, and if we went through it, we could get more.
Originally, I was in a sort of unmarked hotel with paper thin walls. And then, one day hanging out at lunch, I found out there were extra rooms at the Hilton, baby!!!!
Some people didn’t want to stay at the Hilton because it was all the way in La Paz, so you had to commute like over an hour each way instead of 20 minutes each way. BUT then you were in a CITY! A fairly major city!
You could scuba dive before work. You could walk to Dairy Queen.
They gave commutes for free to everybody. So, it’s not like it affected you monetarily. You still got the same van. So, PUT ME IN THE CITY, BABY!
It was a very ‘Americanized’ trip. Like, just because I ‘worked in Mexico,’ I worked for an American company based in California. So, nothing was affected tax-wise. And while I was there for a while, I did overall still feel like a tourist (because, overall, I was).
Everything was taken care of for me – where I was staying, transportation, etc. All I really had to do was figure out how to have fun.
That was another thing that was nice was there were ALWAYS people around. You could hang out in the sort of make shit ‘commissary’ to meet crew members. You could hang in the bar of the Hilton and almost always find someone. There were just always people around from the show.
It was super easy to have travel buddies – which also made it very Americanized, because I maaaaainly hung out with American people. BUT Cabo is often known as “Cabofornia” anyway, so it’s a pretty American place.
So, I don’t know how much I really acclimated to a new culture, since we had a bubble of sort of our own, in a place that was fairly Americanized to being with. But it was a great time. I feel really lucky I had the job. I’d love to travel for work again sometime!