How safe/dangerous is Baja these days?

[911pcars]

Was in Rosarita w/my kids right before Christmas. It looked fairly okay, but that was during the day. I guess it helps to travel with a few thousand overindulgent people in this floating fortress.




Sherwood

[JavaBrewer]

Hopefully the Carnival ship Paradise is better than the Holiday...that ship SUCKED. Come to think of it Rosarita sucked too...better to dock in San Diego

[911pcars]

Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

Hopefully the Carnival ship Paradise is better than the Holiday...that ship SUCKED. Come to think of it Rosarita sucked too...better to dock in San Diego

I'm not the person to offer comparison reviews. My only comparison would be with the Jungle Cruise at D-land. What's up with the Holiday? The Carnival was okay. Food was decent; we didn't become ill; the staff provided good service. It was only a 3 dayer to see if we could bear the trip. Resorts, floating or otherwise, aren't my style, and I'd be hard-pressed to remain sane spending more than a few days on-board, but I guess one could adapt with enough drugs, booze and loose women. I'll try it again..... someday.

Sherwood

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by speeder

The Attorney General of Guadalajara lives on my parents' block in Minneapolis., in one of the better houses in town. The previous owner/inhabitant was an NBA player. (MN. Timberwolves). Not sure if the Mexican guy bought it or is renting from the baller.

It's the weirdest thing. My mom says that they are nice people and that he commutes down to Mexico for work(?) Strange. They are living a very upper-class lifestyle in the U.S.

Couldn't possibly be living on drug money, i'm sure.

[McLovin]

If you can survive a Carnival cruise, Baja is a walk in the park.

[Shawn 357]

I was in Rosarito this weekend and it seemed fine. When I go down there we are staying at a house and don't really hang out on the town beyond going to restaurants. People were out on the streets both Saturday and Sunday unlike a year ago when it seemed like a ghost town. They have had more military/police presence for about a year so don't be shocked if they have a checkpoint if you decide to drive down to Ensenada. I generally don't hesitate to go down there but I would not go down there driving a flashy prerunner unless I was with a group on a score weekend. I am not saying everything is perfect down there so I would use caution.
-Shawn

[red-beard]

I'll bet "Senor Frogs" is having a bad year or two.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by speeder

It sucks what has happened to Mexico. We should invade them, confiscate their country and give it to the Japanese or something. The only problem would be that the Japanese would turn it into one of the richest countries on earth within about 4 years and we would be the red-headed step child of North America.

I love Japan and the Japanese, but everything is not golden there. For the last 20 years they've been fighting economy problems.

For three decades, Japan experienced rapid economic growth, which was referred to as the Japanese post-war economic miracle. With average growth rates of 10% in the 1960s, 5% in the 1970s, and 4% in the 1980s Japan was able to establish itself as the world's second largest economy.[5] However, in the second half of the 1980’s sliding stock and real estate prices caused the Japanese economy to overheat in what was later to be known as the Japanese asset price bubble. The ‘’bubble economy’’ came to an abrupt end as the Tokyo Stock Exchange crashed in 1989. Growth in Japan throughout the 1990s was slower than growth in other major industrial nations, and the same as in France and Germany. From 4.5% per annum in the 1980s, real GDP rose just 1.5% p.a. in the 1990s and 0.8% p.a. in the 2000s. The problems of the 1990’s may have been exacerbated by domestic policies intended to wring speculative excesses from the stock and real estate markets. Government efforts to revive economic growth throughout the 1990’s was not very successful and when the global economy slowed in 2000-2001 the Japanese economy was in a serious economic situation. The economy began to recover under the policies of Junichiro Koizumi and revived strong growth in global trade, rising an average of 2.1% a year in 2003-07. Subsequently, the global financial crisis and a collapse in domestic demand saw the economy shrink 1.2% in 2008 and 5.0% in 2009.

[red-beard]

Dang, there you go, busting people's view of the world

[speeder]

OK, give it to Austria.

[Rikao4]

my sister will be at the Whale sanctuary in San Ignacio next week..
need I worry ?

Rika

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

my sister will be at the Whale sanctuary in San Ignacio next week..
need I worry ?

Rika

Evidently if she gets in the tank with a killer whale, she should worry.

[Rikao4]

a few yrs ago..
I arranged for her to swim with the Belugas at seaworld..
she loved it...

Rika

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

a few yrs ago..
I arranged for her to swim with the Belugas at seaworld..
she loved it...

Rika

Belugas and Orcas are different. Like the difference between Labradors and Rottweilers.

[red-beard]

If I swam with them, they might take me for one of thier own...

[m21sniper]

When you consider the extremely limited number of people exposed to Orcas in captivity, the mortality rate of those people seems to be quite high.

I don't be messin' with no 10 ton whales with teeth as big as my head.

LOL

[Rikao4]

well DD..
having had both Rotts & Labs..
it's NOT the breed IMO..
it's the folks that own them..

Rika

[dd74]

Originally Posted by Rikao4

well DD..
having had both Rotts & Labs..
it's NOT the breed IMO..
it's the folks that own them..

Rika

If it makes you feel better, whatever...

IMO, people are stupid; thinking they "know" what animals are thinking, and which are docile, which are not, which are reliable in their moods, and others that are not.

How many examples does man need?

People getting torn apart by dogs, monkeys, lions, whales.

YMMV

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by R K T

I know some areas around L.A. that's just as dangerous, if not more, than Baja.
Ever hear of the third world next to Wilmington?

Hey, I'm in wilmington right now!
I wouldn't walk the streets here at night but I would not walk the streets in meh-hi-co in the day.
Seriously, it's no worse down there than it is in bagdad or afghanistan.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by sammyg2

Seriously, it's no worse down there than it is in bagdad or afghanistan.

Or Philly.

We only had 686 murders here last year...