Road trip for dental work

[Powder Hound]

So, this year's road trip for dental work was completed a couple of weeks ago. Crestview to Yuma and back. 3900 miles total distance. 45.9 overall mpg. It would have been a couple higher, but for a 700 mile shot while driving from Sealy, TX to Las Cruces, NM, I had a 25mph headwind with gusts up to 45 mph and got only 40mpg for that segment.

Anyway, this may have been my last one of these. My travel cost was about $700 for the cost of driving including hotels and food. My thinking is that a flight to Tucson and then renting a car for the Tucson to Yuma and back would be about the same cost and a lot less time and wear and tear on my body. As well as wear and tear on the car, of course. And I would avoid the crazy traffic stoppage for no apparent reason which happened just outside of major metropolitan areas like Houston, El Paso, (an hour each when leaving the area), and the hot mess of fresh dog poop that is driving through San Antonio these days.

Road trips just aren't what they used to be.

On the upside, the car ('13 JSW with 210k miles) performed well and did not collect a thick layer of bugs. Just a thin layer on the front bumper - about the expected amount given the lower incidence of bugs in arid areas.

Cheers,

PH

 

[oilhammer]

Long way for dental work.

But hey, I get people from all over, too.

I have relatives that spent some life in Florida, I'll have to ask them if they had trouble finding a dentist there. Plenty of old people, though, maybe they no longer have teeth?

They were both nurses, uncle was a specialist cardiac cath something or other. They made bank down there for over 30 years and moved back to Missouri. I've probably visited Florida 20 or so times, and now my brother-in-law moved there.

 

[Powder Hound]

It isn't that there are not plenty of dentists here in Florida, it is that for the prices charged, I can get much more done in Mexico and fund the trip for the price of a crown here at home. It really rubs me when a dentist does things like charge $350 just to walk in the door. Or, when I went to one in NH when I told him I needed a root canal, he arrogantly told me that he would decide that and then charged $125 to tell me what I already knew and topped it off by refusing to do the work. The medical community in general is just too arrogant for their own good. I would rather go else where. I used to have relatives to visit in the Phoenix area as well, but that isn't going the way it used to.

Cheers,

PH

 

[Ton]

I travel about 75 miles to see my dentist. Any dentists in Mexico accepting new patients?