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I spent three months riding the bus & hitch hiking thru Mexico, Belize & Guatamala back in '73. I also rode my bike to San Quentine a couple of years after Dean did. Had a couple of people come over the center line at me that time.
What I hear here sounds the same as I heard from lots of people back then. I've been all over Mexico but quit going there. Things don't seem to be getting better according to the natives (I spent a couple of years going to T.J. mostly once a week to work on my car in a shop there.) I have spoken to. My truck is like Denis' truck, and according to the guy who runs the shop there, it's the one most in demand theftwise.
I remember being in Merida a long time ago and passing a VW van parked on the street from the U.S. It didn't have any curtains and inside you could see closed, locked steel boxes secured by several heavy bicycle cables. I thought at the time it was a crappy to have to travel. I hitched rides with Mexicans and americans. Never had any problems except crossing borders and in Belize City.
Good luck if you do it. I think things are so bad down there economically & culturally, it can't be any other way.
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Marv Evans
'69 911E
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