RV Tourism in Mexico
Every season there are posters who think that this year RV tourism is increasing. As much as we would all like to think it is recovering the truth is it sucks! Today, El Imparcial has an article on th...
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"Help! Help! Help! I just got robbed!"
"Shhh, you wanna bring the police?"
This is a Mexican joke. About one in twenty burglaries get reported. So toss out the stat flinging and put on your smart hat and learn how to reduce the risk. This goes for security, driving, midnight strolls, ATM use, you name it.
Mexico IS NO LONGER A CHEAPSKATE'S PARADISE. It takes careful planning not to break the bank for most upper lower class and lower middle class folks, who wish to come south for the winter.
How does four dollar thirty cents per gallon milk, sound? Or seven dollar for a six pack of beer? I just priced T bone steak at 288 pesos a kilo, that's $9.75/lb, you can find VIBRAM beef cheaper, but you can't chew it. Is a dollar seventy for a loaf of bread cheap? Or seven dollars for a quart of mayo a bargain? Only twenty dollars a day for a site = 600 dollars a month. Gasoline and diesel cost more than 4.00 a gallon and so does LPG. More than a few autopistas (cuotas) charge an RV a dollar per mile. Butter? You must be joking. Five dollars thirty six cents per pound. Stupid potatoes are sixty cents per pound.
It is worth running the gauntlet to get to a favorite destination...that's the key for a lot of people. Encountering six or seven retenes de SSP or Puestos de Controles militar per day's drive also enters into the equation.
If mere bad news from a place so remote you would need a guide to find it, is your deciding factor, two things, you have a lot more money than I do, and a hell of a lot more active imagination than I will ever have. Do you nail your closet shut at night and look under the bed before getting in? Open your eyes and ears, shut down the imagination and start engaging the brain. You'll have a great time. The obstacle is high prices, not the ghosts of Pancho Villa and Hannibal Lectur.
"Shhh, you wanna bring the police?"
This is a Mexican joke. About one in twenty burglaries get reported. So toss out the stat flinging and put on your smart hat and learn how to reduce the risk. This goes for security, driving, midnight strolls, ATM use, you name it.
Mexico IS NO LONGER A CHEAPSKATE'S PARADISE. It takes careful planning not to break the bank for most upper lower class and lower middle class folks, who wish to come south for the winter.
How does four dollar thirty cents per gallon milk, sound? Or seven dollar for a six pack of beer? I just priced T bone steak at 288 pesos a kilo, that's $9.75/lb, you can find VIBRAM beef cheaper, but you can't chew it. Is a dollar seventy for a loaf of bread cheap? Or seven dollars for a quart of mayo a bargain? Only twenty dollars a day for a site = 600 dollars a month. Gasoline and diesel cost more than 4.00 a gallon and so does LPG. More than a few autopistas (cuotas) charge an RV a dollar per mile. Butter? You must be joking. Five dollars thirty six cents per pound. Stupid potatoes are sixty cents per pound.
It is worth running the gauntlet to get to a favorite destination...that's the key for a lot of people. Encountering six or seven retenes de SSP or Puestos de Controles militar per day's drive also enters into the equation.
If mere bad news from a place so remote you would need a guide to find it, is your deciding factor, two things, you have a lot more money than I do, and a hell of a lot more active imagination than I will ever have. Do you nail your closet shut at night and look under the bed before getting in? Open your eyes and ears, shut down the imagination and start engaging the brain. You'll have a great time. The obstacle is high prices, not the ghosts of Pancho Villa and Hannibal Lectur.
