Snowbirding in Mexico

Chris: I asked a set of questions, others have turned thread into a forum to make uniformed comments on Mexico's drug trade. That was not its original intent. Everybody knows about the drug trade, just like everybody knows about the mass shooting plaguing your country over the last few years. The question is what is the relevance of either to RV'ers? The answer is little. Most of the comments in regard to that are from people who have never taken an RV here and likeley never will. (You know, the ones who say there is still toomuch of the USA to see). Fair enough, if you never will, that is your prerogative, if so why are you commenting on the subject? Purporting to be an expert on conditions here for RVers, when you have never taken your own down here, is counterproductive to say the least. (You haven't have you?) I see no one who has RVed in Canada commenting on the outbreak of drug gang violence in the Vancouver suburbs of Surrey & Abbotsford, one incident which has already killed an innocent bystander and another that peppered an elementary school with bullets. Neither has anything to do with RVing in Canada, nor does drug gang violence in Mexico. Nor does the murder of Canadians in Florida last season have anything to do with RVing in the US. I have now spent 8 seasons of 6 months RVing all over Mexico and have yet to see a single incident in my travels. That does not mean I am unaware there is violence down here, just as I am not unaware there is violence in your country. For eg, I bypassed I-10 in Phoenix this year because there was a nut job sniping at vehicles on the freeway at the time. One needs to look at their own house before trashing their neigbours. And yes I am selling the concept of RVing down here. I have come to love this country, its culture and people, and I think Canadians & Americans are missing out on a great RVing experience, due to overblown paranoia.

Nuff said. My daily rant.

I think its time for the mod to lock this topic down, I see little more being accomplished, once certain individals take it south (no pun intended)