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Tequila
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Aug 18, 2015

Snowbirding in Mexico

I am posting in this section as the question is aimed at those who normally snowbird in Az.

I have been snow-birding in Mexico now for 8 years after having done it in the SW for the first couple of years. Personally, I would never go back to spending the winter in Az, but maybe that is just me. I driven all over Mexico for 5 months a year, even led caravans, and never have had, nor seen, an "incident".

I have some questions, I am contacting some tourism officials in Mexico and trying to get them to promote the RV industry a bit more, so I have some questions.

1) Are you scared to take your RV into Mexico?
2) Do you think there are no modern RV parks in Mexico?
3) Does the lack of ULSD diesel deter you?
4) Are you simply just happy with Az?
5) Are you worried about drug cartels?
6) Are you too wary to do it on your own, or with a caravan, or buddying with others who have done it before?
7) Does the language barrier deter you?
8) Have you ever considered going less than one day south, like Rocky Point, Kino Bay or San Carlos, all of which have modern RV parks?
9) Do you perceive Baja as safer?
10) Are you worried about road conditions?


Please no lectures on Mexico being a war zone, I have heard them all before.

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  • A very interesting topic since my wife and I plan on heading to Yuma, Arizona and hopefully pushing it into Mexico this fall. This is our first attempt at going full time on the road. The Baja I like,we have visited RV parks there when we were on a vacation (flew down and took the local buses). It would be great to have more information about their parks that was up to date. We are thinking it would be great to go into Mexico with other RV owners who know their way around unfamiliar territory to us.