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 ...
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You are not reading my post correctly :)
Like folks who live and deal with tourists in Ski Resorts, Camping areas, and other recreational areas in the USA, we down here, see the good, the bad, and even worse than that breed of North American tourists.
So, call me heavily-exposed to RV tourists :) I help out in a large store in a very remote area. At home I have a business that deals with cruising sailboat owners and crew.
When I read about "Gringoized This" and "Americanized That" it makes me wonder. We whom live down here accept the fact that things are-as-they-are. McDonalds, Home Depot, and other north-of-the-border familiar sights exits solely because Mexicans want them here.
Mexico exists everywhere in any degree of modernity or primitiveness as a person could wish. Fifteen miles away from cell phone towers and WiFi are ranchos and fish camps that exist the same way as they did in the 1930's. But to expect to find a beach camp PARQUE de TRAYLORS with hookups right out of the 1970's is near impossible.
So PLEASE accept my original and this followup as a statement not in context to any others in this thread but perhaps a blunt learning tool. Many lurkers read these threads, keep that in mind :)
Like folks who live and deal with tourists in Ski Resorts, Camping areas, and other recreational areas in the USA, we down here, see the good, the bad, and even worse than that breed of North American tourists.
So, call me heavily-exposed to RV tourists :) I help out in a large store in a very remote area. At home I have a business that deals with cruising sailboat owners and crew.
When I read about "Gringoized This" and "Americanized That" it makes me wonder. We whom live down here accept the fact that things are-as-they-are. McDonalds, Home Depot, and other north-of-the-border familiar sights exits solely because Mexicans want them here.
Mexico exists everywhere in any degree of modernity or primitiveness as a person could wish. Fifteen miles away from cell phone towers and WiFi are ranchos and fish camps that exist the same way as they did in the 1930's. But to expect to find a beach camp PARQUE de TRAYLORS with hookups right out of the 1970's is near impossible.
So PLEASE accept my original and this followup as a statement not in context to any others in this thread but perhaps a blunt learning tool. Many lurkers read these threads, keep that in mind :)
