Is Mexico Safe?

[terrapinneck]

Originally Posted by MikeMike

Key West? Isn't that the t- shirt shop at the end of that really straight road?

Daytona has more curves than some counties in Florida.

Actually, even though the wife loves Mexico too. She is shying away from a ride down there. She would like to go beach crawling from Mexico Beach, FL to Key West and maybe back up the eastern seaboard. I myself, am anxious to ride in MX or further anytime after the first of the year...

[rockymountainoyster]

Cuotas between Nuevo Casas Grandes and Chihuahua were all half the posted auto/moto price. I was worried about getting through Chihuahua easily. It was very easy. Coming in from the North you just follow the signs for Mexico and stay on the Ruta Paysano... it takes you on the outskirts of town down the east side towards the airport. It was quite well marked with not much traffic. It was Sunday so I can't speak to the weekday situation.

[acejones]

Originally Posted by terrapinneck

Usually I can find my way about pretty well, unless in Tampico.
I had the job of driving an eye doctor from Aquismon to Tampico so he could catch a flight home. Three of the eye team nurses (women) wanted to tag along for a little shopping. I got lost, long story short, wound up in the red light district. (no snickering). As the church van cruised by some prostitutes we thought we heard one say..."well, there goes the neighborhood"....

I thought Tampico was confusing too. I was looking for my hotel there and couldn't find it. Actually I was standing right in front of it, but the sign was on the side.'I asked a taxi driver if he knew where it was and he said he didn't even though he was parked right next to it. It didn't help that I was hot and tired . I then walked into the hotel I was in front of and ...what do you know... its the one I'm looking for. Boy, I felt stupid.

[WeazyBuddha]

mmmm....menudo and pozole season is here.

Originally Posted by Bato

Menudo

[Bato]

Hector Cantu Ojeda

[SchizzMan]

Originally Posted by terrapinneck

Usually I can find my way about pretty well, unless in Tampico.
I had the job of driving an eye doctor from Aquismon to Tampico so he could catch a flight home. Three of the eye team nurses (women) wanted to tag along for a little shopping. I got lost, long story short, wound up in the red light district. (no snickering). As the church van cruised by some prostitutes we thought we heard one say..."well, there goes the neighborhood"....

I understand.

Sometimes, when I'm real tired or distracted, I find myself turning into my own driveway but don't remember the drive there.

[dcstrom]

This seems to be one of those "only in Mexico" things... A guy in a clown suit offering commentary on the Connecticut school shootings...

[MikeMike]

That is Brozo, one of the most respected Mexican journalists who has a morning program and specializes in anti- corruption exposes. Massive set of cojones, makes the peckerwoods on MSNBC or CNN look like amateurs.
He sometimes appears on journalist roundtable programs dressed normally. He is a genius, as opposed to the USA where the guy in the clownsuit runs the country. LOL!

[Bato]

Brozo el payaso tenebroso....wait until you see his assistant LA RIATA

[MikeMike]

Beats the hell out of self important, narcissistic, leg tingling egomaniacs.
For that you have to watch Lopez Doriega.

[dwj - Donnie]

Originally Posted by MikeMike

That is Brozo, one of the most respected Mexican journalists who has a morning program and specializes in anti- corruption exposes. Massive set of cojones, makes the peckerwoods on MSNBC or CNN look like amateurs.
He sometimes appears on journalist roundtable programs dressed normally. He is a genius, as opposed to the USA where the guy in the clownsuit runs the country. LOL!

That would be funny if it was not so sad! What do you call a gringo wetback in Mexico?

[Turkeycreek]

This goes back to the time when only fools could get away with telling the king the truth without fear of being beheaded,

[AndyT]

Four women kiiled on the road between Creel and Guachochi, in the Copper Canyon area, apparently for their car. Be informed and make your own decisions:

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/1...thers-and.html

This happened on a very well traveled road.

[SKINNY]

Originally Posted by AndyT

Four women kiiled on the road between Creel and Guachochi, in the Copper Canyon area, apparently for their car. Be informed and make your own decisions:

http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2012/1...thers-and.html

This happened on a very well traveled road.

This worries me...I had tentative plans to ride that area next April...

[Craneguy]

None of us have said this doesn't happen, but the telling part is that they resisted. Everyone else made it through poorer, but alive.
Very sad, but you have to wonder if the outcome would have been different if they had just handed over the keys.
I wouldn't consider the risk of leaving my daughter fatherless for what would be a pointless show of defiance.