Well said Bill. --- On Fri, 12/10/10, Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> wrote:
From: Mixon Bill <bmixon...@austin.rr.com> Subject: [Texascavers] going to Mexico To: "Cavers Texas" <texascavers@texascavers.com> List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Friday, December 10, 2010, 7:42 PM I'm getting downright discouraged by all the negative comments about Mexico and all the trips that don't seem to be happening. I'm pretty well plugged into the news, although my main and nearly only source is the New York Times, and I can think of only one case of a random American tourist getting killed in Mexico lately, and that was the guy on a boat near the gulf. A couple of other dead Americans worked with a US consulate. Where are all the reports of random tourists being ambushed on the highway and robbed, kidnapped, or killed? You can be sure that one incident like that would make as much news up here as fifty Mexicans killing each other (not that that's a particularly good thing to say about the US press). Remember the rule about never driving in Mexico at night, the insane Mexican bus drivers, and the trucks with no lights? We didn't worry then, and the busses seem to have been tamed. As long as you don't hang around the border towns, I wouldn't be surprised if it's safer to drive now then it was then. Of course, this is easy for me to say, I guess, because I gave up going to Mexico ten years ago for unrelated reasons. -- Mixon ---------------------------------------- All the world's a stage, but the play is badly cast. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu AMCS: edi...@amcs-pubs.org or sa...@amcs-pubs.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
