Warning about Baja Travel

[jorluivil]

Originally Posted by BOOGIE

Its really not my first post, probably my third or forth a tecnical thing i gess, but ebery time i have post its on the same matter, i guess i dont like people critizising the place a live and love, do i own a kayak?, all my life, do i like fishing? more or the same as the next guy i just don like it wen some one shares his experience some people just jump right away to say that your crazy to take your fammily there, i so some assholes driving a caravan with white flags on ther antenas like if there where crossing a war zone, things like ïts no wonder it hapened over there, you would never see that here,my respons wasnt to the guy that get robed i am realy sorry that that hapaned, my response was for those that allways complain about Mexico but cant get unogh of it, and as far as choosing my words i stand behind them,all of them, y para ti cabron que dices que eres Mexicano chinga tu madre verguenza te deveria de dar andar defendiendo estas pendejadas, vente a vivir aqui a mexico y paga tus impuestos aqui y chingate como todos y luego vienes adefender tu causa, and as far as earning mi credibility?,i didnt know you have to insult some one to earn it, full of b.s?, pendejo?, trets like choose your words?, nice credibility, nice way to treat a first post, butt i am sorry, i guess i got mixup with another country, and as far as mi spelling it didnt seem like a problem i gess every one understand wat i say

We're all entitled to our opinion and I honestly respect what you say....well, everything except for the part about my mother. Do I support Mexico, HELL YEAH! In the last four years I've spent well over $6k in travels to Cabo, Mazatlan, La Paz, San Quintin, Ensenada and Tijuana and if all goes well my next $6k will be for a 100' X 100' lot in San Quintin. Except for one time when me, my wife (girlfriend at the time), my sister and her husband (boyfriend at the time) were driven to a remote area somewhere in TJ and robbed of all our money by the police I've never had an issue. This happened several years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday, I've never feared for my life like I did that day.

I've driven to San Quintin and Ensenada alone and in the dark. Was I scared? Of course I was but I made to and back in one piece and without any issues. What you need to understand is that we post these comments about our experiences in Mexico so that others can learn from them, we're not bashing your country. On the contrary, we're telling people to be aware of where you are, what you do and where you go when you visit Mexico. If you were to visit the US I'd give you pointers like, stay away from Compton and South Central Los Angeles at night because it's a dangerous area but make sure your fish La Jolla before you go back home.

Eddie says you're a cool dude, I'm sure you are but you need to tone it down and as a person that lives in a country that we love to visit you should be giving us advise on what to do, where to go and what areas to stay away from. The comments about our soldiers raping and killings women and children were totally uncalled for. This is a fishing forum, not a political forum and we should keep it that way.

[bigbarrels]

heading to Punta Abreojos on Oct 4th for 10 days and thankfully my truck only blue books for around 14,000 I've travelled all over Baja for over 20 years and with some common sense and good luck I've had very few problems down there......During the 20 years that I've travelled down there I can remember how people would say I was crazy for travelling down there.......usually from people who had never been down there and who didn't have too much life experiences.....nowadays there is a bit more of a pucker factor with the drug wars and all.......but in Northern Baja there is such a huge military presence that I felt safe travelling through that area last year. Once I get past Enseneda, I fill that I'm home free and the people in that section of Baja are amazing (but of course it's Baja and anything can happen....such is life). So many people aren't heading down there due to the instability but if you are willing to take some risk the rewards are huge (ie empty lineups, fishing grounds, etc).......I surfed a couple of really good sessions on perfect points in the Seven Sisters Area with only my friends in the water and had wide open Calico bass, sand bass and halibut fishing from the kayak with now one else around.....worth some risk for me

[eddier68]

Good luck Bigbarrels! post a report when you get back. Saludos.