Safety along the Mexican border
I tried searching for this information with no success, so I am calling on my fellow RVers for answers. DW and I are planning a trip which includes taking I8 from San Diego, CA to Yuma, AZ and I10 to...
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msgtord wrote:
The media has blown the border situation way out of proportion. Go where you want to along the border. I've lived and worked along the border for over 40 years. We live 3.5 miles from the Colorado river and Mexico. We lived in Ajo for 4 years which is 18 miles from the Organ Pipe. Beautiful country, with great hiking trails, 2 trackers for 4 wheeling, and some great folks to get to know. Call around to the rv parks in Yuma, Ajo and Why and check capacity. You'll be surprised how many folks have beat you to a parking spot.
I know that Yuma is popular with RVers getting dental work over the border.
As for driving thru border cities, we never have a problem with that tho I do my best to avoid El Paso just because of the traffic not because of the bullets flying across the border from the drug gangs.
We have camped several times around Chiricahua NM and never have a problem and we have day triped to Nogales (where my Father used to take us when we lived in Tucson), Bisbee and Tombstone with no problems. But I may be over cautious I'm not camping that close to that area.
I did see a website that apparently said that Organ Pipe has been made safer by armed private citizen patrols but I couldn't get it to load.
And as for the border patrol be prepared to get stopped (rare) or go thru inspection stations near the border. Never has been a problem they may want to look in the RV.
