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.