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tfyoung

Mar 7, 2009, 7:05 PM

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Each year, we try to take a couple of weeks to visit Mexico. My wife and I plan to retire to Mexico in a few years, and we enjoy looking at potential future homes. This year, the amount of negative publicity has acquaintances asking if we are crazy enough to try a driving trip in the current climate. I agree the news can be disturbing, but I really don't see anything that would keep us from trying our normal trip. We have been traveling in Mexico off and on for around 25 years, usually driving, and uninformed people have always reacted as if we must be daredevils. We have never had any contact with garden variety bandidos or narco trafficers. We will probably cross at Los Indios again this year, and proceed through Ciudad Victoria, Potosi, Tlaquepaque, Colima, to Manzanillo. (We stayed at the Hotel Anita in Manzanillo in the 80s and would like to see what its like now.) Do any of the regular, seasoned MexConnecters see any real reason for experienced travelers to avoid Mexico this year?

Rolly

Mar 7, 2009, 7:22 PM

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Come on down. Those of us who live here understand that the odds of getting in the crossfire are mighty slim.

Remember the song Leave Your Worries Behind. Good advice.

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jerezano

Mar 13, 2009, 7:03 PM

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Hello tfyoung,

I just crossed over the Los Indios crossing to Cd. Victoria to San Luis Potosí to Zacatecas last Friday March 6, 09. Roads in excellent condition all the way. Los Indios crossing probably the safest in Texas. Probably the quickest in Texas. Farm and ranch country all the way to Cd. Victoria. Valle Hermosa is a small agricultural city which so far has experienced no riots, no shootings, no bad publicity at all and it is the only city on that route until you hit Cd. Victoria. Nothing at Cd.V either and you will actually bypass that city as well so nothing big until SLP which has had one reported incident in late 2008. You have run this route before evidently so the real item of interest is that the roads are in excellent condition even that notoriously deteriorated 40 km or so of state highway before you join the Matahuala-SLP main route. Even that 40 km has now been resurfaced.

Have a good trip and remember to fill up your gas tank at Cd. V and again at SLP although the gas I got at Victoria was bad. Luck of the road. We made SLP before the car started acting up so new gas with additives corrected the problem.

jerezano