Los Barriles - The Gringo Paradise
All down the Baja I kept running into folks headed for Los Barriles. From the description in both the Moon book and the Churches book it sounded like a nice sleepy little place. This is my first time ...
Forum Discussion
Do you do a double-take when driving down the street in the USA, and see "Peloqueria", followed by "Panaderia, Carneceria, Ropa, Canes Frias" and on and on? Well, DO YA? Yes or no?
This is part of the bi-multiculturalism of our age. To drag a 50,000 dollar RV into the boonies of Mexico, camp just outside a pueblo, live like a gringo inside the rig, then "tour" the village and treat it like a living, reactive diorama is not quite "going native". Yet I know folks who do exactly that then sneer at fellow patriats that ensconce themselves in gringo enclaves throughout the country. I wonder about this.
There is no "one" Mexico. Perhaps there are a a hundred Mexico's or a thousand. There are more than I could ever count. Regional differences that are as apparent to a Mexican and an L.A. Hipster is to a Cajun.
Individuals may prefer to boondock. This does not give them any "rights" to criticize folks who RV Camp and ridicule them as being "Americanized". Like the description of the big RV parked on the edge of a small village, the boondockers cannot badge themselves with a title of being "more Mexican" than the park dwellers.
IT'S ATTITUDE that depicts whether or not tourists have adapted to Mexican lifestyle. It's not simplistic - We have had Tapatios, Chilangos, Codos and Jarochos come to the beach and they are aliens. Some proceed to fit in, within an hour, others never do, and merely hablando español is NOT the key of whether these people ever "fit" or not. It is attitude.
Demanding to drag along an entire lifestyle from north of the border is one way to determine if folks could ever fit in. The tolerance period down here seems to be between four to seven years. Many people do not make it past year seven.
But one thing for sure
"We go to Mexico despite the Mexicans" attitude
Is a foolproof way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
This is part of the bi-multiculturalism of our age. To drag a 50,000 dollar RV into the boonies of Mexico, camp just outside a pueblo, live like a gringo inside the rig, then "tour" the village and treat it like a living, reactive diorama is not quite "going native". Yet I know folks who do exactly that then sneer at fellow patriats that ensconce themselves in gringo enclaves throughout the country. I wonder about this.
There is no "one" Mexico. Perhaps there are a a hundred Mexico's or a thousand. There are more than I could ever count. Regional differences that are as apparent to a Mexican and an L.A. Hipster is to a Cajun.
Individuals may prefer to boondock. This does not give them any "rights" to criticize folks who RV Camp and ridicule them as being "Americanized". Like the description of the big RV parked on the edge of a small village, the boondockers cannot badge themselves with a title of being "more Mexican" than the park dwellers.
IT'S ATTITUDE that depicts whether or not tourists have adapted to Mexican lifestyle. It's not simplistic - We have had Tapatios, Chilangos, Codos and Jarochos come to the beach and they are aliens. Some proceed to fit in, within an hour, others never do, and merely hablando español is NOT the key of whether these people ever "fit" or not. It is attitude.
Demanding to drag along an entire lifestyle from north of the border is one way to determine if folks could ever fit in. The tolerance period down here seems to be between four to seven years. Many people do not make it past year seven.
But one thing for sure
"We go to Mexico despite the Mexicans" attitude
Is a foolproof way to separate the wheat from the chaff.
