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I'm about two hours from the border, but we hadn't gone due to being scared of all the crazy shit we had heard about Tijuana. A few people who used to work with my wife talked about going down there years ago and she showed interest in it. They told her, "oh no chica, we don't take white girls down to Tijuana."
Fast forward to last weekend. We rented a really nice house with group of friends. It was just a little south of Tijuana.
Getting into Mexico was a breeze. There was a lot of traffic, but we were able to zip through the border without any kind of questioning, inspection, or passport check.
While we shopped throughout the day the locals would warn us to stay together, and not get too trashed. But they were also giving us the best tequila shots ever.
One night when we were out at a bar by the beach, we saw two girls that were totally trashed, stumbling rather than walking and they just looked obliterated. As they walked away from the bar they had three guys surrounding them. They weren't huddled in close enough to be their siginificant others, but just sort of forming a big circle around them. I tried to watch them for as long as I could, but they disappeared down an alley. I didn't know what to do. I feel like shit because of it, we we're all pretty sloshed, and if I would have tried to intervene I could have ended up dead. When we walked by the same alley that they walked down there was a dude who looked like he was standing guard and a really nice SUV in the parking lot with the engine running. It was just messed up.
It was a weird experience. Our first day there we were looking up beach front property and it was super cheap. We really wanted to buy something, but now after that experience I'm fine staying in America. I'll pay for my expensive California lifestyle over that any day. I'm not too keen on going back at this point.
We waited in line for six hours to get back in the US. There were people constantly trying to sell us crap, and little kids that would just stand at our car door holding up one finger to signify that they just wanted one dollar. One girl stood there for about a minute.
Fast forward to last weekend. We rented a really nice house with group of friends. It was just a little south of Tijuana.
Getting into Mexico was a breeze. There was a lot of traffic, but we were able to zip through the border without any kind of questioning, inspection, or passport check.
While we shopped throughout the day the locals would warn us to stay together, and not get too trashed. But they were also giving us the best tequila shots ever.
One night when we were out at a bar by the beach, we saw two girls that were totally trashed, stumbling rather than walking and they just looked obliterated. As they walked away from the bar they had three guys surrounding them. They weren't huddled in close enough to be their siginificant others, but just sort of forming a big circle around them. I tried to watch them for as long as I could, but they disappeared down an alley. I didn't know what to do. I feel like shit because of it, we we're all pretty sloshed, and if I would have tried to intervene I could have ended up dead. When we walked by the same alley that they walked down there was a dude who looked like he was standing guard and a really nice SUV in the parking lot with the engine running. It was just messed up.
It was a weird experience. Our first day there we were looking up beach front property and it was super cheap. We really wanted to buy something, but now after that experience I'm fine staying in America. I'll pay for my expensive California lifestyle over that any day. I'm not too keen on going back at this point.
We waited in line for six hours to get back in the US. There were people constantly trying to sell us crap, and little kids that would just stand at our car door holding up one finger to signify that they just wanted one dollar. One girl stood there for about a minute.
I am conflicted with wanting to do weekend trips. I have friends that go mtb or offroad trail ride all the time but I feel like I need some better spanish first in case anything goes sideways while I'm down there.
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The Shop
i've been going to the Baja for 5 straight years and am thinking about laying off for a while, the crime and violence down there is outrageous. the trafficking is very real.
On one of the other days I went to take a picture of some cops that were standing there with AKs and my buddy who has been down there before yelled at me and said they would probably shoot me.
Love Cancun, yup the cartels are shooting people there too. Even the best places are getting
not so pretty good. Some good friends of mine went down for Baja 500 support. They got about
2 miles in and got pulled over. the cops made it out that they just pulled over the top narcos
because they had a couple of pocket knives. Ended up having to pay the cops over a grand and
a goat to let them go. Yes a legitimate goat.
So aside from the cartels, any trouble you get into, there literally is no recourse as the cops are
probably taking a cut anyway. For sure they are not going to do anything about their own criminal
enterprise.
Having said that there are pockets of paradise. Many of the Mexican people are great and live in the
same fear and are just basically hostages to the corrupt police and drug cartels with no way out.
They keep their head down and make the best of it.
How many years will it take to turn things around?
It’s really a shame it’s such a clusterfuck down there as Mexico has thousands of miles of prime beachfront real estate. It could be a Nation that would flourish if it was run properly. The last trip we made was around 4 years ago to Rosarita beach but I’m not going back. The disgusting filth of Tijuana and what you have to sit through coming back into the States is just not worth it to me. Too many nice things on this side of the border
It sucks that the most beautifully landscaped areas are in shithole nations.
Pit Row
I'm writing a book about it with/for him; I'll let you guys in on it when it's ready. The story is freaking incredible.
It's crazy to think that you can actually see downtown San Diego after you cross the border into Mexico, but it is third world over there. It must be just so corrupt. We spend millions every day trying to fix the middle east, but nothing is done to help our neighbors to the South. That is so crazy to me.
We welcome tens of millions of their people legally and illegally. Provide jobs, pay billions for public assistance, healthcare, education, and law enforcement. Not to mention cost of incarceration for millions of their criminals.
Then tens of billions each year is wired back home to be spent in the Mexican economy. Taxes are never collected on a lot of it. But taxes always come out of our checks to pay for the costs of tens of millions of some of the poorest and Least educated to live and work here, especially if you live in CA.
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