To Mexico Or Not To Mexico?

July 29th, 2010

That is the question.

I think you could call us semi-experienced Mexico travelers. We have been down to the tip of the Baja 5 or 6 times, we have driven down the east coast to the Mexico/Belize border and have done the west coast as far as Mazatlan. Mexico is a huge country so we certainly haven’t done it all but you have to agree we’ve seen a bit of it. We know that we passionately love the country and it’s people.

The dilemma is do we go again this year or do we heed the warnings and give it a rest. We could travel areas in the US and enjoy our bikes, and that’s something you certainly can’t do down there.

We are certainly used to people who mean well, scolding us for traveling in Mexico.  They watch CNN, they know these things and we should know better then to even think about Mexican travel. Some of our fellow Mexican travelers attitudes are that  “We’ve traveled for 10 years all over Mexico and have never had a problem, therefore we will continue to safely travel in Mexico and never have a problem.” I’m not comfortable with either of those positions. I don’t agree that we can wish something to be true, therefore it’s true. I also know that our 24 hour a day media some times gets off the true happenings to hype the story.

I know I can get the blood and gore side of the Mexico news on Border Land Beat and pop in and pop out of numerous Mexico blogs to get the local story. I’ll post a link to Borderland Beat but first I need to warn you, the pictures are graphic.

If you don’t like looking at pictures of bullet ridden, bloody bodies don’t click here.

So here’s where I need your help:

From our fellow travelers of Mexico: What are you thinking? Let’s hear it all, the reasons for and the reason against. I’m pondering and listening.

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Goodbye Excited. Hello Disappointed

July 25th, 2010

 

They say everything happens for a reason. It will be interesting to see the reason behind this one.

We got news on Friday that our motor home would not be here in the coming week as planned. Instead it will be here “mid August”.  Seems the current owners are having a bit of a health issue, we wish them well. So now, we should actually get our coach and move in in early September.

Maybe the message behind all this is “Slow Down”

3 Responses to “Goodbye Excited. Hello Disappointed”

  1. George & Suzie Says:

    Like you said everything happens for a reason.
    Maybe Mar will get hooked on all the space in your 5th wheel? And you just buy a bigger truck to head south.

  2. Larry Vanstone Says:

    I supose thats possible, but not very likely

  3. Contessa Says:

    Very complicated, but why can’t you just drive down and get it and import it?? ie tomorrow…………

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OK, Now We’re Excited

July 21st, 2010

While it seemed like 6 months ago, it was really only about 6 weeks that we made the deal on our new motorhome. We’d seen some pictures, looked at the build sheet, checked out the service records and made our decision. We laid down the money and began the long, long wait. Well, that long wait is alomost over. In about 5 days we’ll finally get to see and touch our new home. You gotta know we’re ready.

If it’s all we thought it was in another couple of weeks after that (it needs to go through all the import stuff) we’ll be moving in to our LAST EVER RV.

5 Responses to “OK, Now We’re Excited”

  1. George & Suzie Says:

    excited!! for sure, a nice looking home.nice to see more pics.

  2. Rick Says:

    Niceeee! I have also said “LAST RV EVER” but……..

  3. Larry Vanstone Says:

    Rick; That was a joke. I’ve made a pretty good living over the years selling “last rv ever”, until…….”Larry, we love our RV. If it was only a couple of feet longer”

  4. Rick Says:

    Larry those are words are so familiar. The latest one is “We love our RV but he bedroom is a little tight” mine is “It sure would be nice to have a pusher” as long as we are breathing I do not think it is a really accurate statement.

  5. Brian McKenzie Says:

    Niiccee!! Very rich looking (Lady Pat’s words exactly!!!).

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