Id Expensive Mexico Toll Roads!
Would like to Id the expensive Toll Roads in Mexico. Toll Road between Tepic and Guadalajara. Last time we used the road the cost was in the $70 USD range for our rig. rocmoc n AZ/Mexico
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Uh yeah "Once Upon A Time" gets interupted by
"Another fosfo is discovered with 2,000 remains"
And you are worried about telling it like it is with regards to exactly why things are so expensive down here. What are you 2-3 hours from shopping in Texas? Try six long days to the Arizona Border and one hundred seventeen dollars an CAR TOLLS EACH WAY. Calling facts "baloney" is not the most intelligent thing a person can do.
This is a living, breathing, functioning country with a lot of warts. And scabs. I knew this at age 17 some 52-years ago on my first trip. Did it discourage me? Did being held at gunpoint in Chajul Guatemala scare me back under my bed in the USA? Did waking up 25-years ago at 0300 to a man holding a pistol scare me back to Peoria? Yeah I found the jammed tight but unmortared bricks in the bathroom once thet were put back by the cops. A three hundred dollar lesson.
If you want to sell tickets to Knotts Berry Farm, hire on as a travel agent.
Or you could be like that gringo I saw in San Lucas dragging his roof piece by piece back through a doorless opening and he was wearing a sopping wet red NO BAD DAYS shirt.
You being in Mexico's wealthiest per capita city cannot imagine the poverty of people so poor they have not been on any toll road in thirty years. Or seen Tarahumara indigenous forced to walk because ticket prices on El Chepe have doubled and trebled in price.
Mexico's treasure is not its beaches or jungles or pyramids. It is its people who laugh at my phrase Tortillas salt chili and music. Newcomers who do not wish to gawk at dioramas but see the country as it really is end up returning over and over. The "let's do Mexico" crowd are welcome do come, dump a lot of money then mosey on down the trail. The people that "come despite the Mexicans" can drop off the edge of the earth. Being a citizen and having a large family down here wipes away the hyperbole. The real actual wart-laden core of this country laid bare separates the finicky flaky tourist from actual travelers who return year after year, decade after decade.
"Another fosfo is discovered with 2,000 remains"
And you are worried about telling it like it is with regards to exactly why things are so expensive down here. What are you 2-3 hours from shopping in Texas? Try six long days to the Arizona Border and one hundred seventeen dollars an CAR TOLLS EACH WAY. Calling facts "baloney" is not the most intelligent thing a person can do.
This is a living, breathing, functioning country with a lot of warts. And scabs. I knew this at age 17 some 52-years ago on my first trip. Did it discourage me? Did being held at gunpoint in Chajul Guatemala scare me back under my bed in the USA? Did waking up 25-years ago at 0300 to a man holding a pistol scare me back to Peoria? Yeah I found the jammed tight but unmortared bricks in the bathroom once thet were put back by the cops. A three hundred dollar lesson.
If you want to sell tickets to Knotts Berry Farm, hire on as a travel agent.
Or you could be like that gringo I saw in San Lucas dragging his roof piece by piece back through a doorless opening and he was wearing a sopping wet red NO BAD DAYS shirt.
You being in Mexico's wealthiest per capita city cannot imagine the poverty of people so poor they have not been on any toll road in thirty years. Or seen Tarahumara indigenous forced to walk because ticket prices on El Chepe have doubled and trebled in price.
Mexico's treasure is not its beaches or jungles or pyramids. It is its people who laugh at my phrase Tortillas salt chili and music. Newcomers who do not wish to gawk at dioramas but see the country as it really is end up returning over and over. The "let's do Mexico" crowd are welcome do come, dump a lot of money then mosey on down the trail. The people that "come despite the Mexicans" can drop off the edge of the earth. Being a citizen and having a large family down here wipes away the hyperbole. The real actual wart-laden core of this country laid bare separates the finicky flaky tourist from actual travelers who return year after year, decade after decade.
