Kidnapping, Murder, and Drugs in Popular Mexican Destinations | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 hidden)
Lucky (none / 0)
Have fun Jazz and don't let all this Kasparian fear mongering ruin your fun.  Last year I traveled around Baja during a number of advisories and had a great time.  Look ma I'm alive - the evil drug-crazed Mexicans didn't kill me!  Obviously, you should be careful and I wouldn't recommend camping on beaches in remote areas, but personally I'd be more worried about the rattle snakes.

I don't know where in Baja you're going, but I would definitely recommend traveling south of Ensenada and head to the beach where you will find a number of cool little villages (Puerto Santo Tomas in pic below) and super killbassa surf spots even if the water's freezing.  Then again the roads are pretty rough so make sure you're riding American strong - USA!  I think Dave recommended this to me at the time and I was glad that I got out of the Tijuana-Ensenada area, though how can you not love Ensenada.  I also was surprised how friendly people were when the road would end and they'd let us travel through their property/ranch.

I'm curious about the details of this crack down that Ana is calling for?  Looking at our history, most of our drug "crack downs" have been epic failures.  

by rev24 on 03/06/2009 03:14:19 PM EST

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Rev did you take that pic of the snake? (none / 0)
Talk about cojones, that snake is making a bee-line for you. Run next time?

by dclawyer06 on 03/07/2009 01:24:53 PM EST

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I'm not that crazy (none / 0)
I was in the truck DC.  We came across a number of rattlers and other strange desert critters on the dirt roads.  I couldn't believe my friends got out the car to check out the snakes when they were coiled up and hissing.  I grew up fearing rattlers and the last thing I would ever do is mess with a rattle snake.  We had a big argument about whether a snake could strike you if you were standing further away than the length of the snake, but why even risk it?

P.S.  I heard Cenk make some comment on the show yesterday about posting travel pics and his insinuations were definitely not my intentions (merely responding to Jazz's upcoming trip) so I posted a comment below with my view of the drug cartels and violence in Mexico.

by rev24 on 03/07/2009 06:56:52 PM EST

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Kidnapping, Murder, and Drugs in Popular Mexican Destinations | 22 comments (22 topical, 0 hidden)