Well, Don, perhaps it's not where you go but how you go.
> From: donarb...@mac.com
> To: gi...@worldnet.att.net
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:45:55 -0600
> CC: Texascavers@texascavers.com
> Subject: Re: [Texascavers] Travel Advisory for Mexico 2
>
> We just drove to Belize from San Antonio. We weren't a target, too
> many Lexus and Mercedes and Navigators to bother with my dirty old
> Superduty towing a crappy old trooper. Totally uneventful drive.
>
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>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 10:10 AM, Gill Ediger <gi...@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
>
> > At 11:22 AM 3/16/2009, Geary Schindel wrote:
> >> If you'll be traveling in Mexico, it might be a good idea to take
> >> some of the contact information located at the bottom of the
> >> advisory with you.
> >
> > I didn't read it yet but I just got back from 3 weeks in Mexico
> > yesterday. Went in by myself through Laredo in about 10 minutes,
> > maybe 12. Got the green light both times. Another 10 or 15 got me
> > out of town without being shot by drug lords. Neither went through
> > nor saw any checkpoints all the way to Victoria. Did not get stopped
> > by cops in Monterrey. Came back via Monterrey, Saltillo, and Piedras
> > Negras (requiring many hours in the state of Coahuila, once again
> > all alone). Neither went through nor saw any checkpoints that whole
> > distance.
> > Was stopped by local police 2wice in Saltillo, after dark,
> > for bribes but talked (with a good bit of help from Monica) my way
> > out of both of them.
> > By far the biggest change I've noticed in Mexico in a long
> > while is that since all the cops have acquired radar they are very
> > intent on enforcing speed limits--especially on main highways
> > through small towns. If the sign says 40 km/h, you need to be damned
> > near 40 going through there, not 70 mph like everyone used to do.
> >
> > Now, let me have a look at those advisories.
> >
> > --Ediger
> >
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