Dealing With Unrest (tips)
Let's say you are walking down the street in Oaxaxa and suddenly you see an unruly mob carrying mantas - banners, coming toward you. Simply ducj into the nearest doorway. If it's a store or hotel that...
Forum Discussion
My objection to a few things on this thread can be compared to putting restraints on 12-year old girls on a sleepover trying to scare each other to death with ghost stories.
There is a forum that I do not participate on that HEADLINED
"80-YEAR OLD MAN ASSAULTED IN (well known) MEXICO R.V. PARK"
Well, be honest for your own sake. What came to mind? Your first thought?
"IN HOSPITAL"
This sounds horrible and no eighty-year old should be assaulted unless they initiate violence or a horrible crime like against children, right?
Outraged forum participants started yelling. But then a park resident spoke up. He chronicled the account from beginning to end.
A young American man was playing loud music at 0200. The octogenarian apparently went to the man's RV and an argument ensued. Nobody went to the hospital. The elderly man decided for one reason or another to go to the doctor the following morning. An accounting of what physical activity took place is not known.
It does not take MUCH to scare the pants off of a prospective visitor to Mexico.
And I have NEWS for a certain respondent: I do not have a business in Mexico. I do not make a dime's difference either way if one or one million tourist's visit.
But I DO have a fetish. And that is to share this wonderful country with others. They do not have to recognize me - pick me out of a crowd. They do not have to know my name. That would be feeding an ego. My reward is this and this ONLY: To read accounts of first time visitors and those who respond to (anyone's) tips and suggestions and give feedback expressing joy and satisfaction with their trip. I risk the ire of doomsayers, alarmists, story tellers, and whopper-slingers. Catch me in a falsehood, or just plain mistake, do not attempt warp reality. It hurts the people down here who utterly rely on tourist dollars. If Mexico was dangerous, me, a disabled senior COULD NOT live here. You know, Michoacan. Half way between infamous Playa Azul and superinfamous Lazaro Cardenas. I would not travel the badlands of the Michoacan coast on Mex 200.
Caution and common sense are one thing. Propagating unfounded horror stories (of course with a little amplification each step of the way) is quite another.
Cartels - Strikers - Rioters - Protests
Find ONE VERIFIED STORY occurring within the last SEVERAL YEARS of not just an RV'er but ANY LEGITIMATE TOURIST be harmed by organized crime. Strike that, by any criminal. Harmed does not mean being relieved of a wallet, it means psychical damage to one's body. There must be something out there that is legitimate.
To go or not to go to Mexico is a personal decision. The decision should be based on reality. That is all I ask.
There is a forum that I do not participate on that HEADLINED
"80-YEAR OLD MAN ASSAULTED IN (well known) MEXICO R.V. PARK"
Well, be honest for your own sake. What came to mind? Your first thought?
"IN HOSPITAL"
This sounds horrible and no eighty-year old should be assaulted unless they initiate violence or a horrible crime like against children, right?
Outraged forum participants started yelling. But then a park resident spoke up. He chronicled the account from beginning to end.
A young American man was playing loud music at 0200. The octogenarian apparently went to the man's RV and an argument ensued. Nobody went to the hospital. The elderly man decided for one reason or another to go to the doctor the following morning. An accounting of what physical activity took place is not known.
It does not take MUCH to scare the pants off of a prospective visitor to Mexico.
And I have NEWS for a certain respondent: I do not have a business in Mexico. I do not make a dime's difference either way if one or one million tourist's visit.
But I DO have a fetish. And that is to share this wonderful country with others. They do not have to recognize me - pick me out of a crowd. They do not have to know my name. That would be feeding an ego. My reward is this and this ONLY: To read accounts of first time visitors and those who respond to (anyone's) tips and suggestions and give feedback expressing joy and satisfaction with their trip. I risk the ire of doomsayers, alarmists, story tellers, and whopper-slingers. Catch me in a falsehood, or just plain mistake, do not attempt warp reality. It hurts the people down here who utterly rely on tourist dollars. If Mexico was dangerous, me, a disabled senior COULD NOT live here. You know, Michoacan. Half way between infamous Playa Azul and superinfamous Lazaro Cardenas. I would not travel the badlands of the Michoacan coast on Mex 200.
Caution and common sense are one thing. Propagating unfounded horror stories (of course with a little amplification each step of the way) is quite another.
Cartels - Strikers - Rioters - Protests
Find ONE VERIFIED STORY occurring within the last SEVERAL YEARS of not just an RV'er but ANY LEGITIMATE TOURIST be harmed by organized crime. Strike that, by any criminal. Harmed does not mean being relieved of a wallet, it means psychical damage to one's body. There must be something out there that is legitimate.
To go or not to go to Mexico is a personal decision. The decision should be based on reality. That is all I ask.
