jbrown - 10-6-2018 at 05:04 PM
Thanks to all. I will apply for the renewal card and cross my fingers. It has been 20 years since I last visited Baja. I was unaware of the need
for the tourist card. Baja use to be a free zone. BTW it ain't gumbo without OKRA.
Okiegumbo
chuckie - 10-6-2018 at 05:31 PM
Second that..cant find any OKRA here and am making Gumbo for elk camp,with my boys next week..I grew Okra in my garden in
Mulege....wonderful..flourished,,,stay well
Lee - 10-6-2018 at 05:38 PM
Gotta have collard greens and okra for green gumbo. The best.
David K - 10-6-2018 at 05:52 PM
Hi jbrown and welcome to Nomad.
The tourist card (going back to the 60s) was free and required for any trip over 72 hours or travel south of Maneadero or San Felipe. Since there was
no way to prove when 72 hours started, many just blew off getting one for their week in Ensenada! There was an immigration check in Maneadero but not
San Felipe. That checkpoint was abandoned by the 1990s.
In mid-2000, Mexico began to charge for a tourist card and a check for them was set up at the Eagle Monument near Guerrero Negro.
For a while, Baja Norte tourism department was advertising the whole state was a tourist card free zone, up to a week.
A few years ago they bowed down to federal rules which had ammended the deal with a free 7 day tourist card and the once exempt Border Zone 72 hour
deal ended. Now, any and all trips into Mexico require a tourist card.
Okra, lots of uses!
AKgringo - 10-6-2018 at 06:16 PM
I used to grow it when I lived in northern California. I love it fried, or stewed, and it makes great pickles too! I grew the traditional green
variety, and a red one as well.
Alm - 10-6-2018 at 06:24 PM
FMM is not a renewal card, it's basically a multi-entry permit valid for 6 months or less. Why would anybody have to cross his fingers for getting it,
is beyond me. You can get it without problem online or at the border, cost about $25. You will need a passport or passport card for this.