Is Mexico Safe?

[WeazyBuddha]

I tell you, it's awful living a stone's throw form Mexico knowing that I can't just come and go as I please, if I could I'd be doing day trips all the time. This longer tourist permit thing sounds promising. Although I've got dual citizenship I've always been required to do tourist paperwork since I do not live in Mexico.

[mark883]

Originally Posted by SR

I'm a pasty white boy and I love Menudo. My wife wont let me cook it at home because it makes the house smell like a feed lot

Let us all know when your wifey makes that red mole again, we'll send out for Menudo, and you can eat all you want. Mas mole for the rest of us. Nom.

[McFoil]

Any suggestions on Hotel/hostels in Torreon, MX? Has anybody stayed at Hotel Savoy?

[tricepilot]

Originally Posted by SchizzMan

We have a restaurant here in Pflugerville called El Rincon and they have menudo as good as any I've had in Mexico. Come on up for a bowl sometime.

-PastyWhiteBoy

PastyWhiteBoy
One of my favorite Foreigner tunes

Hey, baby, if you're feelin' down
I know what's good for you all day
Are you worried what your friends see
Will it ruin your reputation lovin' me

'cause I'm a pasty white boy
Yeah a pasty white boy
A pasty white boy

Don't drive no big black car
Don't like no hollywood movie star
You want me to be true to you
You don't give a damn what I do to you

I'm just a pasty white boy
pasty white boy, pasty white boy
pasty white boy, pasty white boy
pasty white boy

Well, I'm a pasty white boy
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A pasty white boy

I've been in trouble since I don't know when
I'm in trouble now and I now somehow I'll find trouble again
I'm a loner, but I'm never alone
Every night I get one step closer to the danger zone

'cause I'm a pasty white boy
Pasty white boy, yeah, pasty white boy
Pasty white boy, I'm a pasty white boy
Pasty white boy

C'mon, c'mon boy
Pasty white boy, white boy
Pasty white boy, I'm a pasty white boy
Pasty white boy

Hey, I'm a pasty white boy
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Pasty white boy, pasty white boy, yeah

[SR]

Originally Posted by McFoil

Any suggestions on Hotel/hostels in Torreon, MX? Has anybody stayed at Hotel Savoy?

If you are coming in from the east stay in Parras De La Fuente instead. It is much nicer than Torreon. Torreon is a dump with no redeaming qualities that I have ever discovered, even after going there many times. In the past I have stayed at the Marriot Torreon on Independencia for work. It's nice but kind of expensive. The Rincon Del Bife resturant is also on Independencia, a few blocks east. Although, if you want a good steak you can get one in Texas.

[SR]

Originally Posted by mark883

Let us all know when your wifey makes that red mole again, we'll send out for Menudo, and you can eat all you want. Mas mole for the rest of us. Nom.

Man, she just made it a week ago. It's tamale season now +atole, bunuelos, and ponche.

Menudo is a great meal to get out on the road at some roadside cafe on a sunday morning with some quesadillas and cup of nescafe.

[Turkeycreek]

Weazy,

I loves me some of that Pozole. It is the tripe. If it is not washed at least 50 times in Clorox, it doesn't work for me. My neighbor would bring me menudo every once and a while and I would accept it to be friendly and not eat it , I would send it home with the house keeper. She finally ratted me out and we had a good laugh.

Welcome all to the first day of the new Mayan calendar.

[noshoes]

I wanted to be in Mexico when the world ended so went down on Thrusday, overate at several restaurantes, and the world didn't end on Friday. So overate some more. OK, so now back in AZ, on my way to TX and nothing unsafe has happened. I even brushed my teeth with tap water, and nothing happened. Kinda cold tho. Army checkpoints got a kick out of my end of the world reasoning.

[WilderRider]

Originally Posted by dcstrom

San Cristobal looks like it might be a cool place, could be a good next stop, only a few hours from Palenque - anyone know a good place to stay?

BTW Tricepilot, where do I find "your girl" in Palenque?

I liked the Hotel Jovel. It had decent parking and was easy to get in and out of with the bike. Only 250 pesos for a private room if you did not need cable.

[McFoil]

Originally Posted by SR

If you are coming in from the east stay in Parras De La Fuente instead. It is much nicer than Torreon. Torreon is a dump with no redeaming qualities that I have ever discovered, even after going there many times. In the past I have stayed at the Marriot Torreon on Independencia for work. It's nice but kind of expensive. The Rincon Del Bife resturant is also on Independencia, a few blocks east. Although, if you want a good steak you can get one in Texas.

Thanks for the suggestion for hotel and restaurant. It will have to be Torreon. Parras is on my list, but the unrefined crew I run with will be looking for more trouble than is allowed there. More of a tequila crowd than vino. I'm about to form the same opinion in regards to Torreon's merits to the Nortean Traveler. This will be my 4 overnight in Torreon. Each year I ask the same question on ADV and yet not one inmate has answered more then you today. The Torreon Marriott has been suggested by a few, so I guess we will loosen up the wallets and pay. I think a doble runs about $100 US after taxes. We will be at the Roma in DRG on 1/5/13 and having delishous hotdogs across from the cathedral that eve. Not hard to find 6 dirty Okies in the plaza.

[Pedro Navaja]

Originally Posted by McFoil

...but the unrefined crew I run with will be looking for more trouble than is allowed there...

Trouble? Easily arranged for, but don't be surprised if a few of your crew wind up with their cabezas in a 55 gallon drum. I'm just saying...

[McFoil]

Originally Posted by Pedro Navaja

Trouble? Easily arranged for, but don't be surprised if a few of your crew wind up with their cabezas in a 55 gallon drum. I'm just saying...

Buzz Kill

[rockymountainoyster]

Trice I was actually thinking about maple trees, their glorious colors and the song "Moonlight in Vermont"

[tricepilot]

[Bato]