Staying at a resort, but had planned on taking a day to just go out & ride. Guess that ideas going down the shi**er
That is a bad idea.
Flying into a resort or stopping on a cruise is usually pretty safe. Get about two or three blocks off the prime tourist section and you are taking a big risk. I deal with people weekly that have to travel there for business. The companies they work for have manufacturing plants there. They don’t like going, they have insurance in case they get abducted. I have also been told that if you have an accident in a car or moving vehicle down there you are immediately at fault and unless you can pay cash for all damages and fines you go to jail.
A guy locally as a store that sells a lot of the metal yard art. He buys it all just over the border. When he crosses he pays the cartel $300.00. They have a guy get in his truck and stay with him until he makes his purchase, loads and comes back to the border. I asked what would happen if he didn’t pay. His reply is they would at a minimum rob him of all his cash and take his truck. At the worst he would never be seen again.
There is not enough money in the world to ever get me back to that hell hole. We don’t even book a cruise anymore with a port of call in Mexico.
Last edited by Cosmic Razorback; 02-23-2018 at 03:01 PM.
Grew up in So Cal and used to travel across the border and camp on the beaches. Not for me now. Tourist areas are not a problem though. Outside of those areas and its a dangerous place:
Always wanted to ride up the Sierra Tarahumara out of Batopilas at the bottom of the Copper Canyon. A great-aunt tutored children of silver mine owners there a century ago. Now there's no way I would go with cartel activity the way it is.
Grew up in So Cal and used to travel across the border and camp on the beaches. Not for me now. Tourist areas are not a problem though. Outside of those areas and its a dangerous place:
Okay I am reading this, sad but not at all surprised. Wondering why in hell they are there. Then realize they have family there, okay. Then I see “Hare Krishna Temple”. That says a lot!!!!!!!!!!
I go yearly to the resorts (Cabo and Cancun) and just got back three weeks ago from Cancun. The further away from the border the safer you are but most border towns you are ****ing retarded for riding through them. The state department even has a ban on government employee from traveling in most of those states and have the threat level at the highest level in most of those states closest to the border.
Border crossing in most places ranks right up there with hiking in the mountains on the Iran border or a school visiting North Korea. It’s a bad idea.
we go down to Yucatan every year to see my wife's family and it is still reasonably safe in that area, however as much as I would like to, I would never ever attempt to drive or ride down that way as one would have to go thru some of the most dangerous areas.
02-23-2018, 09:08 AM
