A Canadian rider posts a query to an American Goldwing riders message board:
I’m planning to tour central and southern Mexico this fall. Would like to hear from anyone who has motorcycling experience in Mexico. I’ll be starting from Toronto, Canada and will be inside Mexico 3 or 4 weeks. Any suggestions?
Some of the answers:
best advice
pick somewhere else to go
Travel in daylight only, brush up on your spanish, take a lot of cash to bribe the crooked police.
It might keep them from throwing you in the slammer.
I live in San Diego and there’s a lot of news that don’t necessarily make it on TV or radio the American consulate in Mexico has advised Americans not to travel in Mexico why because the drug cartels are at war in Tijuana and in Baja I’ve lived in San Diego my whole life and I have toured Mexico on a motorcycle 30 years ago since the first of the year 13 police officers in Tijuana were shot dead there was a running gun battle between two drug cartels on the freeway in Tijuana leading to 16 dead since the first of the year there have been 2000 murders in Baja California the last time I went to Tijuana in the daytime federal troops had taken ove local law enforcement conditions for travel in Mexico is very bad there is a long list of tourists being robbed raped and on several occasions murdered businessmen and US citizens are kidnappings are usually held for large ransoms this is my opinion and you can do as you wish Mexico is not that sleepy country that Jimmy Buffett sings about I would avoid traveling in Mexico at all costs if you choose to go notify the American consulate of your travel plans so someone will know who you are and where you are when something happens to you[I’m not joking] the United States is a big beautiful country with lots to see and lots of places to go I would stay in North America and that’s just my advice take it or leave it
The President of Mexico made an announcement today saying that Mexico will not participate in the 2008 Olympics because everyone who can run, jump, or swim has already left their country.
WHy spend your hard-earned money in a country that doesn’t give two squats about the nations of the United States AND Canada. Do some research and see how many illegals are now moving into Canada because they have found out that Canada hands out even MORE welfare than the United States does, if you can imagine that. It may be a beautiful country, have wonderful people, cheap to buy things, etc, etc, but they encourage the unemployeed and criminal to migrate to our country, don’t reward them with your Canadian/American dollars.
Why don’t you just come to California? Just as many Mexicans and better motels.
Jesus Christ on a Honda. Is there something about motorcycles that brings on Teh Stupid?
I was at a bar with some motorcycle buddies when one of them got drunk and started shouting “nigger nigger nigger” at the top of his lungs. No one seemed interested in stopping him. I was at lunch with a different group of riders when two of them started swapping wife-beating stories. Not stories about husbands beating up wives . . . stories about them beating up their wives. No one seemed to find this objectionable.
And the message board thread about riding in Mexico? No one there seems to have a problem with it. Well, I do.
I quit riding with that first group of motorcycle buddies. I quit riding with the second batch too. And I just signed off from the message board. Oh, I’m not going to quit riding my motorcycle . . . I’ll just have to be more selective picking people to ride, and write about riding, with.