BajaNomad
Not logged in [Login - Register]

Go To Bottom
Printable Version  
 Pages:  1  2
Author: Subject: Baja or Sonora?
JESSE
Ultra Nomad
*****




Posts: 3370
Registered: 11-5-2002
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-26-2007 at 06:55 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by JZ
Quote:
Originally posted by JESSE
Baja is a lot safer than the mainland...


What is your source for this.


Its a well known fact, i dont need sources.




View user's profile
JZ
Select Nomad
*******


Avatar


Posts: 10532
Registered: 10-3-2003
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-26-2007 at 07:35 PM


Yeah, maybe if you are considering Mexico City against BOLA. Otherwise, I don't think your blanket and un-sourced comments work. Have you heard about the little crime wave in Baja Norte? Any place with a large population will have bad patches. We are talking about Sonora here anyway in reference to the mainland. What are your facts regarding Sonora or Mazatlan in Sinaloa?

Those kind of comments are what got you hammered a couple years back.


[Edited on 12-27-2007 by JZ]
View user's profile
stanburn
Nomad
**




Posts: 145
Registered: 10-4-2007
Location: Santiago, Colima, MX
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-26-2007 at 08:43 PM


Pretty funny. I live on the mainland and I don't worry about anything. But I wouldn't begin to think about travelling between Ensenada and the border.

Uncited "well known fact" that is nothing but a personal opinion.
View user's profile
JESSE
Ultra Nomad
*****




Posts: 3370
Registered: 11-5-2002
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-26-2007 at 11:06 PM


Quote:
Originally posted by JZ
Yeah, maybe if you are considering Mexico City against BOLA. Otherwise, I don't think your blanket and un-sourced comments work. Have you heard about the little crime wave in Baja Norte? Any place with a large population will have bad patches. We are talking about Sonora here anyway in reference to the mainland. What are your facts regarding Sonora or Mazatlan in Sinaloa?

Those kind of comments are what got you hammered a couple years back.


[Edited on 12-27-2007 by JZ]



Sonora and Sinaloa are the drug trafficking capitals of Mexico, very violent places where roberies, kidnappings, and rapes have been going on for decades. Thats just common knowledge here in Mexico, that why i said that i dont need any sources, anybody in Mexico knows that.

relax.




View user's profile
JZ
Select Nomad
*******


Avatar


Posts: 10532
Registered: 10-3-2003
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-27-2007 at 01:17 AM


Quote:
quote]Originally posted by JESSE
Sonora and Sinaloa are the drug trafficking capitals of Mexico, very violent places where roberies, kidnappings, and rapes have been going on for decades. Thats just common knowledge here in Mexico, that why i said that i dont need any sources, anybody in Mexico knows that.

relax.


Relax? and listen to your blanket bs statements? Have you actually ever been to Sonora?? Your words suggest you haven't. Back your stuff up with facts? If you are speaking about a specific place(s) in Sinoloa name them. Don't generalize. Don't speak about things you don't know.

You won't catch me hanging out in TJ anytime soon. But I have no worries going to Hermosillo, Nogales, or Mazatlan.


[Edited on 12-27-2007 by JZ]
View user's profile
Pescador
Ultra Nomad
*****


Avatar


Posts: 3587
Registered: 10-17-2002
Location: Baja California Sur
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-27-2007 at 07:58 AM


Quote:
Originally posted by Fred
Pescador.....................Where to you camp on the beach between Rocky Point and Bahia Kino?


I used to explore all those roads and trails and in times past the areas around Libertad and Desemboque were great. On the road from Kino through Desemboque to Libertad there were little roads that went to the sea side. Since there were lots of drug smuggling that went on, the army patrolled the area pretty well so we felt somewhat safer knowing the army was around and knew of our whereabouts. In the late 60's or early 70's, I met several Seri woodcarvers doing Ironwood carvings and traded packets of sandpaper for some really beautiful carvings.
View user's profile
domromer
Newbie





Posts: 13
Registered: 12-25-2007
Location: Oregon
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-27-2007 at 08:21 AM


That area is great. We camped at Desemboque last year for new years. We had the entire beach to ourselves.
View user's profile
Fred
Senior Nomad
***




Posts: 500
Registered: 3-15-2007
Location: Las Vegas
Member Is Offline

Mood: Laid Back

[*] posted on 12-27-2007 at 08:41 AM


Pescador.....thanks for the info.
View user's profile
domromer
Newbie





Posts: 13
Registered: 12-25-2007
Location: Oregon
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-27-2007 at 08:51 AM


Anyone know the driving time from Tucson to Desemboque? Would you take the 15 to Caborca then over to Desemboque?
View user's profile
JESSE
Ultra Nomad
*****




Posts: 3370
Registered: 11-5-2002
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-27-2007 at 07:28 PM


Quote:
Quote:
Originally posted by JZ
quote]Originally posted by JESSE
Sonora and Sinaloa are the drug trafficking capitals of Mexico, very violent places where roberies, kidnappings, and rapes have been going on for decades. Thats just common knowledge here in Mexico, that why i said that i dont need any sources, anybody in Mexico knows that.

relax.


Relax? and listen to your blanket bs statements? Have you actually ever been to Sonora?? Your words suggest you haven't. Back your stuff up with facts? If you are speaking about a specific place(s) in Sinoloa name them. Don't generalize. Don't speak about things you don't know.

You won't catch me hanging out in TJ anytime soon. But I have no worries going to Hermosillo, Nogales, or Mazatlan.


[Edited on 12-27-2007 by JZ]


I have family in Cananea, Hermosillo, and Ciudad Obregon, i know exactly what i am talking about.




View user's profile
JZ
Select Nomad
*******


Avatar


Posts: 10532
Registered: 10-3-2003
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-28-2007 at 04:04 AM


I have dozens of friends in Hermosillo and Orbegon. I visit those towns regularly. What you are saying is not the truth.


[Edited on 12-28-2007 by JZ]
View user's profile
stanburn
Nomad
**




Posts: 145
Registered: 10-4-2007
Location: Santiago, Colima, MX
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-28-2007 at 06:20 AM


Last time I checked, there were 31 states in Mexico. 2 of them are in Baja and Jesse, the self proclaimed expert on the risks of travelling the mainland has identified 2 states with problem. Seems to me using my simple math that leaves 27 states on the mainland without a problem according to Jesse.

Doesn't sound like it is alot more dangerous to me. That is the problem with these gross generalizations, they don't hold water.

Yes there are dangerous places in Mexico. There are dangerous places in the US. Keep with the facts, not generalizations.

I agree Culíacan is a major drug area, but that didn't stop me from spending a night there. Did I see or experience any violence? No.

Jesse, you are entitled to your opinion, but Mexico is a big country, much larger than Sinaloa, Sonora, BCS & BCN.
View user's profile
Fred
Senior Nomad
***




Posts: 500
Registered: 3-15-2007
Location: Las Vegas
Member Is Offline

Mood: Laid Back

[*] posted on 12-28-2007 at 12:09 PM


There are 50 states in the US and they all have good and bad areas.
View user's profile
JESSE
Ultra Nomad
*****




Posts: 3370
Registered: 11-5-2002
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-28-2007 at 06:31 PM


Look guys, do what ever you want, ask any Mexican that knows even a little about what he is talking about, and he will know just like most people in this nation, that Sonora and Sinaloa are to Mexico what Sicily is to organized crime in Italy.

Fact is wether you like it or not, Baja is a lot safer.




View user's profile
stanburn
Nomad
**




Posts: 145
Registered: 10-4-2007
Location: Santiago, Colima, MX
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-29-2007 at 06:30 AM


You have trouble admitting that your original statement that the mainland is more dangerous could be wrong. If you want to compare Sinaloa or Sonora to the Baja that is one thing, but to make a grand statement that the mainland is more dangerous is absolutely wrong!

All you have to do is admit that you are talking about the two states, not all of the mainland. We all make mistakes, repeat after me.........I mispoke, I should have been more specific.

Now that didn't hurt too much did it?
View user's profile
domromer
Newbie





Posts: 13
Registered: 12-25-2007
Location: Oregon
Member Is Offline


[*] posted on 12-29-2007 at 09:40 AM


Dang, talk about thread jacking.
View user's profile
 Pages:  1  2

  Go To Top

 






All Content Copyright 1997- Q87 International; All Rights Reserved.
Powered by XMB; XMB Forum Software © 2001-2014 The XMB Group






"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen. The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez

 

"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt

 

"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes

 

"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn

 

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law







Thank you to Baja Bound Mexico Insurance Services for your long-term support of the BajaNomad.com Forums site.







Emergency Baja Contacts Include:

Desert Hawks; El Rosario-based ambulance transport; Emergency #: (616) 103-0262