We felt very safe in Mexico. We saw more presence of military and police armed with rifles, but the people were friendly and the drivers were at least as good as in the US.

I'd heard a statistic that there was more gun violence in the state of Arizona last year than in all of Mexico. I hope it's true. I do think the Mexican drug war makes good press and is a little over-reported stateside.

We wish we knew more Spanish too.
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> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:33:07 -0400
> Subject: Re: Mexico trip report
> From: kenwilfy@comcast.net
> To: johnki@hotmail.com; vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
>
> Thanks for sharing!  We are thinking about doing a trip next fall from
> the US to Belize via Mission Texas.  It would be epic!  I have been
> hearing that as long as you stay to the main roads and don't do
> something stupid that you wouldn't normally do here in the US, that
> Mexico is pretty safe to drive through.  Just wish I knew Spanish.
>
> Ken Wilford
> John 3:16
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