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Re: Oaxaca Camping
One time we spent a couple of weeks at the San Felipe Trailer Park in the hills above Oaxaca. Rows and rows and rows of thorn tipped agave plants grew there, like a vineyard. They called them maguey, and after some number of years they harvested the pina in the center of the plant and cooked it in the ground. The smokey fermented distilled liquor that resulted was bottled with a scorpion (imported from China) and was exported under the Scorpion brand. The proprietor, a Mexican-American from California, kept a garafone of the finished product just inside his front door and would siphon out a half litre into your bottle for two or three bucks. It was drinkable. Not sure when they went out of biz.577Views0likes0CommentsRe: Guanajuato Downtown Campground
El Morrill RV Park. Beautiful vistas, steep walk, excellent Museum of contemporary art, lots of cardio. Very interesting place fabulously decorated. Google maps led us almost to it, but didn’t know about the construction detour. Spent an hour figuring out how to cover that last quarter kilometer. U-turns, backing down skinny curvy steep streets blocked by Coca Cola trucks, etc. Pretty challenging but I’d do it again. We’re the only campers here. Feels very safe, immaculate bathrooms, showers. Wonderful management. Might stay a few extra days.536Views0likes0CommentsRe: Truck Camper Registration
Hey Playa, thanks for offering the new perspective. Seriously. Maybe it was me instead of the border folks being ignorant and stubborn. I can say more things in Spanish than I can hear or understand. My truck has a Mexican plate on the front, but the rear plate is totally blocked by the camper. Next time I’ll mount the rear plate on the camper in it’s special place, license frame, running lights and all. Maybe that’ll make the camper and the truck one unit. Since you’re not judging me I’ll cop to being un poca de scofflaw. Hoping always to avoid morditas or unnecessary complications, I don’t volunteer much. It would go against my nature to enter the Declare lane uninvited.599Views0likes0CommentsRe: Truck Camper Registration
Thanks Talley! Well, I shouldn’t have acted so righteous. Had no idea campers were registered anywhere. Been hauling them into Mexico since the nineties and have never had to produce any documents. Always treated a camper as cargo. No wheels, no plates or registration, no vehicle. Planing to make a short trip to the US this summer. Better choose my entry point carefully.599Views0likes0CommentsTruck Camper Registration
Last week during the Mexican gas crisis I crossed the border north bound to buy a used camper while driving my Mexican plated truck. Re-entering Mexico a couple of days later at Del Rio / Acuña I presented my Permanent Resident Card and Legal Mexican Truck Registration. She asked for the camper registration. No such thing, I declared. It isn’t a vehicle and there is no License Plate or Registration. After an hour of rigmarole and purposeless words with several people up the ladder, they instructed me to go back to Texas for a registration and then to the Banjercito for an import permit. All impossible. Once again I repeated that there is no such thing as a camper registration and in any case I can’t get a tourist permit because I’m a permanent resident of Mexico with a Mexican plated vehicle. And I haven’t ever lived in Texas. Whether it’s ignorance or apathy, they don’t seem to know the rules or care to learn. None of it mattered to them. The uniformed inspector whispered in my ear that I could cross without a problem an hour east at Eagle Pass / Piedras Negras. It is calm there, tranquilo, she said. And it was. Looking through my window, the Mexican Border Officer at Piedras Negras asked, Americano? Si, I responded. Asking for no documents, he waved me on with a Buen Viaje.2.4KViews0likes13CommentsPatzcuaro to El Paso. Best route
Gotta make a fast run from Patzcuaro to Albuquerque and back next week in my truck to pick up a camper. Looks like a long ways. Any advise about route, hotels and restaurants appreciated. Driven around the periphery of Mexico many times, but never the center. Looking forward to the trip. Thanks. John923Views0likes4Comments
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