Flying is also a good alternative!! LOL

Sorry about your bad experience in Mexico. Borders tend to show the worst from both countries —anywhere!! And customs are always and annoyance. And being stuck in traffic… Ughh!

And well, yeah, the Mexican police (moredelones —literally “biters”) have a bad reputation. But we Mexicans have learned “The Refined Art of Talking Ourselves Out of a Ticket” ;) he, he

But, taking this nuisances aside, I hope your visit while in Mexico was at least worthwhile and you got to visit nice places and meet nice people :)

Well, I kind of figured that the San Isidro border crossing would be like that. I have familiy in Colombia and have been there a few times, and I figured that Mexico is probably similar to Colombia in a lot of ways. But I wasn’t sure, because I crossed the US border between Quebec and Maine with some of my family a lot when I was a kid, and we never had any problems at that crossing.

Yeah, you are right, flying would be a great alternative! :) I plan on doing that when we go down to Chichen Itza, hopefully sometime within the near future. So far, the only part of Mexico I saw was TJ, and that wasn’t exactly my cup of tea. But I know that all of Mexico is not like TJ.

And I live in an area with lots of Mexicans. I have a few cousins in Mexico, and my man’s uncle lives in el DF. I love Mexicans. But I just love people in general. I think that people are people, everybody’s pretty much the same. So yeah, I met nice people, but I meet nice people everywhere. :)

Oh, speaking of those tickets, there was an article in the LA Times recently about how the Mexican government made the carretera between TJ and Baja a ticket free zone. The journalist spoke with a policia off record, and he mentioned that the best way to get off a fake ticket fine would be to ask to be taken to the police station to pay the fine. He said that the officers just want the cash, but they wouldn’t want to deal with the hassle of having someone be brought in and having to do the paperwork. I thought that was interesting. I’m glad that they have that new anti ticket law, because a lot of Mexican people around here who go home for Navidades say that they used to have to carry a few twenties just for the drive.