In my youth as a college student in San Diego, I had a great deal of interest in Mexico and her peoples and culture. I wanted to travel the Baja all the way to the Southern tip, visit Mexico City, the Yucatan Peninsula.
Not anymore. I’ve too much of Mexico right here in the Midwest and the damned NarcoTrafficantes are destroying the tequila industry because the land for growing the mezcal is far more profitable growing narcotics. At the rate they are going, tequila shortages will cause the price to rifle through the roof before year-end.
Muck Fexico!
I did too, and I made all those trips. I traveled (wandered) all over Mexico, North, South, East and West alone in the late '80s and early '90s. I spent weeks exploring Mexico City and Guadalajara. Knowing the language helped, but I would never do that today. I know a woman from Monterrey, which was always one of the safer cities, and even she will not go back to see here family now.