General Information & Instructions
for driving in and around Mexico
For starters these instructions and information may
strike you as very abrupt, precise and to the point, that’s wonderful, they
were intended to be that way. Do not leave on your driving trip through Mexico without
reading them all to the end and even more importantly; UNDERSTANDING THEM
THOROUGHLY & COMPLETELY!!!
My experiences:
The first memories of coming to Mexico were with my
father when I was 15 years old, 53 years ago, since then rarely has a year past
when I hadn’t returned numerous times per year. I am quite familiar with
crossing the border and their requirements, some legal and some not quite so
legal. I have crossed at virtually every border crossing from Matamoros to Tijuana
and all points in between.
I have traveled in
by car, truck, Hummer, motor home, private plane, personal yacht, commercial airline,
motorcycle, cruise ship and walked across and back many times, some friends tell
me I have even crawled, of course I can’t remember those times so we won’t be
talking about them anymore…OK! While in Mexico I have been involved in two
motorcycle accidents, one scooter flip, one quad roll down a mountain and one
lost engine in a twin 1960’s vintage Sky
King type Beachcraft between Mexicali and Hermosillo on the way back from
San Carlos. Three of which required stitches or hospitalization or both. Two
broken ankles, two cracked ribs (twice), one broken toe 32 stitches and one nasty burn,
I’m still here and I still love Mexico and their people.
I have driven down Baja twice, down the mainland coast of
the Sea of Cortez as far as Acapulco, through the mountains to Mexico City and
across the Sonora Desert several times as well as my son and I recently drove
from Florida to Xcalak on the Belize border. Was caught in a forest fire with my girlfriend and sat it out on a golf course, thankfully we were in my Hummer H2.
