Re:Organizing a Trip to Mexico
I would like like to take the TM to Mexico, it would be quite an adventure. We haven't been there in a long time. A friend from the office went there a year ago to visit family in Guadalajara (from Calif) via passenger car, and didn't have any problems, but all of them do speak fluent Spanish and are Hispanic.
Another guy (a gringo) we know has a condo in Cabo, he has driven down there at least twice. He says that there are Mexican "rangers" in green vehicles that kind of patrol and will help the tourists if they break down. He cautioned that you should always have a planned place to stay, because there is very little between one viable "lodging area" and the next. He said that you don't want to just stay out in the middle of nowhere by yourselves. You should plan on no more than 300 miles per day, and said to ALWAYS buy gas where you see it because a lot of times they just don't have any at the next place. Also, to carry at least two 5 gallon gas cans full. He loves it down there!
If we were to go to Mexico, it would have to be during Christmas vacation (12/20/04 through about the next 3 weeks) or early in the summer. It gets pretty hot down there, at least on the West Coast. We're from the fog zone here in CA so don't really like the heat.
Don't know if I could talk B into going, though, he worries so much, especially with the kids along. Probably if there were several other people going he would go for it....
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