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Bajahowodd
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Registered: 12-15-2008
Location: Disneyland Adjacent and anywhere in Baja
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Two Jews walk into a bar............
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DENNIS
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Location: Punta Banda
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Two Jews walk into a bar............ |
Oh yeah...one of them Mog and David Guadalupe Valley jokes. hahahahahahahha...oh well.....
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longlegsinlapaz
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Registered: 11-18-2005
Location: La Paz
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Van, I believe a Pointer might be just a tad smaller than the vehicle that carried you in luxury to the airport. If that car out front doesn't sell soon, I'm cutting the price in half!
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CaboRon
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Registered: 3-24-2007
Location: The Valley of the Moon
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Quote: | Originally posted by irenemm
Up until 2 years ago Tracks would have 23 dates with us. The most of any of the Caravan Co. out there. That would be Baja Caravans and from the
Mainland also coming up the Baja. Last year they had a few with us still. This year they could not fill enough so they did cancel with us.
The Tracks Co. has always been good to the economy of Mexico. I am sure in the future they will come back when it is safer sell to the public.
Those of us who have lived from the tourist know they are not the only ones not coming to Baja or Mexico. most of the tourist on the Baja this year
have been Canadians not so much from the U.S.
I hope and look forward to the day the public including my family will come back to the Baja.
It is going to take a few years for that to happen. Those of us here know it is not all that the news cracks it up to be. |
What or Who are us
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Hook
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Posts: 9010
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
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Why would a company use security issues in Mexico as an "excuse" to cancel their tours (WITH full refunds, I might add) when they continue to operate
tours in other countries?
They wouldn't. This isn't some face-saving effort as they are probably the largest company doing these types of tours. They are well known.
This is all about the security concerns and probably insurance issues that kick in with a certain level of security warnings.
It really gets tiresome; this rose-colored-glasses approach by persons with vested interests in Mexico.
HELLO!!! MEXICO HAS SECURITY ISSUES !!!!!!
It's not possible to simply transport the caravan past the dangerous areas and then stay only in the safe areas.
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durrelllrobert
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Posts: 7393
Registered: 11-22-2007
Location: Punta Banda BC
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Quote: | Originally posted by noproblemo2
Increased violence in Mexico has resulted in the U.S. Department of State to issue a more stringent travel warning for the Mexican states of Durango,
Coahuila, and Chihuahua as of March 14, 2010. |
and yet the same U.S. Department of State has scheduled my Canadian wife's U.S. Visa interview for Cuidad Juarez
Bob Durrell
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noproblemo2
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Quote: |
and yet the same U.S. Department of State has scheduled my Canadian wife's U.S. Visa interview for Cuidad Juarez
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Might want to call ahead and make sure someone will even be there, but then who ever said they make sense......
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rob
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Registered: 10-19-2004
Location: Pacific Coast, BCS
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Batopilas, at the bottom of one of the canyons, is a beautiful, tranquil little place with FAR too many brand new trucks, some complete with bullet
holes. I was told most were stolen in Texas.
You are completely free to go wandering around the local mountains - BUT YOU GO WITH A LOCAL GUIDE, who presumably knows where not to go.
Different world.
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Barry A.
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Registered: 11-30-2003
Location: Redding, Northern CA
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Quote: | Originally posted by rob
Batopilas, at the bottom of one of the canyons, is a beautiful, tranquil little place with FAR too many brand new trucks, some complete with bullet
holes. I was told most were stolen in Texas.
You are completely free to go wandering around the local mountains - BUT YOU GO WITH A LOCAL GUIDE, who presumably knows where not to go.
Different world. |
We were there about 9 years ago, and noticed the same thing. One other canyon-bottom community in the "Copper Canyon" complex also had a
nerve-racking amount of incredibly new fancy pickups which totally looked out of place--------we certainly suspected the same thing was financing
them.
Spooky!!!!! for sure, especially for an ex-cop like me.
Barry
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DENNIS
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Location: Punta Banda
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Quote: | Originally posted by Barry A.
Quote: | Originally posted by rob
Batopilas, at the bottom of one of the canyons, is a beautiful, tranquil little place with FAR too many brand new trucks, some complete with bullet
holes. I was told most were stolen in Texas.
You are completely free to go wandering around the local mountains - BUT YOU GO WITH A LOCAL GUIDE, who presumably knows where not to go.
Different world. |
We were there about 9 years ago, and noticed the same thing. One other canyon-bottom community in the "Copper Canyon" complex also had a
nerve-racking amount of incredibly new fancy pickups which totally looked out of place--------we certainly suspected the same thing was financing
them.
Spooky!!!!! for sure, especially for an ex-cop like me.
Barry |
They don't have to steal the trucks. They buy them with their hard earned cash. The Canyon is one of the largest dope growing areas in Mexico.
I mentioned above a book, "Gods Middle Finger." Its about the economy of the region, if it can be called that. It also mentions that a man there will
shoot you just to see if his gun is working.
One more point in the book I thought interesting....The growers are powerful and pay for cooperation from the authorities, including the military.
They want to set their kids up in business in the future and they have the vision to see that dope growing is not a safe choice.
With that in mind, about the only thing left around there is tourism so they leave that industry alone as long as the tours are under control.
Here's a link to that book again. I recommend it for a good primer on the area.
http://tinyurl.com/y67zdgz
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Baja&Back
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Posts: 549
Registered: 9-10-2004
Location: Vancouver, Canada / todo de Baja
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Quote: | Originally posted by noproblemo2
Tracks offers many other RV tours to the United States, Canada, Alaska, and overseas.
For more information, call (800) 351-6053 or visit www.tracksrvtours.com. |
Hmmmm. Wonder when Doug is going to spot that advertising??
Can we post our website too??? Huh, huh???
A different, not-to-be-named large tour outfit cancelled on one of the guests who signed up with us in December. The company's excuse was that the
SEPTEMBER hurricane damaged Baja so badly that the peninsula would not recover for years, and that Mex 1 would be impassable until spring. Made it
sound worse than Haiti.
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DianaT
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Quote: | Originally posted by Baja&Back
Quote: | Originally posted by noproblemo2
Tracks offers many other RV tours to the United States, Canada, Alaska, and overseas.
For more information, call (800) 351-6053 or visit www.tracksrvtours.com. |
Hmmmm. Wonder when Doug is going to spot that advertising??
Can we post our website too??? Huh, huh???
A different, not-to-be-named large tour outfit cancelled on one of the guests who signed up with us in December. The company's excuse was that the
SEPTEMBER hurricane damaged Baja so badly that the peninsula would not recover for years, and that Mex 1 would be impassable until spring. Made it
sound worse than Haiti. |
Their information is so good---not passable? Oh well, maybe it is good for your business.
Why isn't a link to your website in your signature? Common thing and good thing.
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Baja&Back
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Posts: 549
Registered: 9-10-2004
Location: Vancouver, Canada / todo de Baja
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Hi, Diane. I thot Doug didn't allow advertising under Board Rule 2.
I'll check that out with him.
Thanks.
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DianaT
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Quote: | Originally posted by Baja&Back
Hi, Diane. I thot Doug didn't allow advertising under Board Rule 2.
I'll check that out with him.
Thanks. |
Look at the signature for a number of people---it seems to not be a hard and fast rule.
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Hook
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Posts: 9010
Registered: 3-13-2004
Location: Sonora
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Quote: | Originally posted by Baja&Back
Hi, Diane. I thot Doug didn't allow advertising under Board Rule 2. |
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irenemm
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Posts: 623
Registered: 7-16-2009
Location: vicente guerrero, baja
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Cabo Ron
Posada Don Diego
R.V.park Restaurant-Bar-Motel
Vicente Guerrero, Baja
opened in1970 this is year 40 for this business.
we purchased in 1979
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