somethings happenin' here

just came through the rosarito toll gate at 1:00 pm. We were going south, on the north side 6 police cars (black and whites and dark blue pje and a truck) lights on , cops out of their cars stopping people on both sides, checking in cars ,most had rifles drawn. We asked the toll lady what was going on . She said mucho banditos. . Don't know what it was about, but glad we could get out quick. You never know when you'll be in the middle of a shoot out and get caught in the crossfire. k

Ignorant sensationalism at it grimy worst...

Alfred Hitchc-ck said it would be like this.

I think...

...I'm going to buy and old Brink's Armored Truck to commute to Baja Sur. I'll install some Safety Deposit Boxes in it to rent out to fellow travelers that want their Pesos to make it down South, safely...

I, too, would like to hear more about why not to use Blvd 2000 since I had received several recommendations for using it.

It's like a have to choose the lesser of 3 evils: Highway 3 with twists, turns and mountains, which all give me anxiety; Blvd 2000 with...banditos?; or Tijuana with the border crossing from hell and possibly rogue policemen looking for mordidas.

I suspect that whichever route I take in driving back from Ensenada to the border (be it SY, Otay or Tecate), I am going to dress like a homeless person, slouch down as far as I can in my seat, and pass the entire trip praying!

I wish Scotty could just beam me up!

In Rosarito Today at 2:00 pm

the calm before the storm, perhaps!

yes, they sell them in the back room

The upswing in miltary is due to the fact that the Rosarito police are still waiting for their guns to be returned to them. The Federales are driving the police trucks for now and patrolling the streets. Hugo Torres seems to feel that the very visible presence of the military will show the tourists that everything is safe. yikes! Word on the street is that things are going to stay tense for about two more weeks- when the police return.

[Edited on 2-2-2008 by Woooosh]

[Edited on 2-2-2008 by Woooosh]

In 1976 while living in El Salvador at La Libertad, we used to sit in the arched window of the abandoned little Chapel at the Cemetary at sunrise and check the surf. 20 years later, Surfer magazine does a spread article on Bob Rotherhams ripper son Jimmy, raise up on the longest point barrel wave in the Eastern Pacific, with him sitting in same arch window with the walls around it riddled with bullet holes, looking like what sprays of machine gun fire would look like. It broke my heart.

I truely hope it doesn't come to that anywhere in Baja, or I'm moving off the continent.



[Edited on 2-3-2008 by Gadget]

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Originally posted by Keri just came through the rosarito toll gate at 1:00 pm. We were going south, on the north side 6 police cars (black and whites and dark blue pje and a truck) lights on , cops out of their cars stopping people on both sides, checking in cars ,most had rifles drawn. We asked the toll lady what was going on . She said mucho banditos. . Don't know what it was about, but glad we could get out quick. You never know when you'll be in the middle of a shoot out and get caught in the crossfire. k

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Originally posted by Steve&ebby The Mexican government needs to continue to show more force to drive the bad guys out.