Cabo San Lucas

Located on the Pacific side of Mexico, this resort city has catered to almost every american dream with extreme sports and johnny rockets within the vicinity. The question I have is this. You travel to Mexico expecting a taste of the culture, but in a resort town are you really getting any culture at all. Petron costs more than in the US and you ask yourself, is this what the locals really eat? The question then lies, do you even have the option to choose between being a traveler or a tourist or do the economies of resort cities force you to be a tourist?