Out of the Baja and yes I am still alive
After 3 plus months and over 3400 miles driven in the Baja on every kind of road and track with my 32 foot trailer I can safely report that: We had absolutely NO problems of any kind (being well tr...
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Too much mercury over "the years," or maybe sooner, can bring on Minimata disease, first named from a Japanese incidence and later making headlines in First Nations folk eating fish caught below pulp and paper mills in Ontario, Canada. This is a very troublesome, untreatable disease.
As we are on the Mexican forum, its my understanding that the Mexican government, although faced with wide-ranging problems with regard to geography and water availability, some time ago made a determined effort to counteract the bad reputation of Mexican water, and instituted a plan to provid good water everywhere, at least where tourists would travel. Down on the beach areas there were always water trucks stacked with garafones of 20 litres each, for about a dollar or less. Never had a problem with this water, and coffee tasted so much better than we made back home, where it seems that every hamlet on the continent espouses their greatest tasting water in the world, yet needs chlorine in heavy doses to prevent problems.
As we are on the Mexican forum, its my understanding that the Mexican government, although faced with wide-ranging problems with regard to geography and water availability, some time ago made a determined effort to counteract the bad reputation of Mexican water, and instituted a plan to provid good water everywhere, at least where tourists would travel. Down on the beach areas there were always water trucks stacked with garafones of 20 litres each, for about a dollar or less. Never had a problem with this water, and coffee tasted so much better than we made back home, where it seems that every hamlet on the continent espouses their greatest tasting water in the world, yet needs chlorine in heavy doses to prevent problems.
