Driving a vehicle from San Antonio area to Tulum Mexico

[CycleCat]

A buddy of mine frequently had to work in Mexico. To get from the airport to job sites he got picked up by what was basically an armed escort service. They picked him up in fast V8 American cars and drove pedal to the metal until they got where they were going.

I'd be curious where your friend was working. That is a stereotyped Hollywood and US media view of Mexico but in most places totally unnecessary. Outside the half-dozen biggest cities and some of the small cartel towns hidden in the mountains, Mexico is perfectly safe and filled with wonderful, gracious people.

 

[greeniguana]

I'd be curious where your friend was working. That is a stereotyped Hollywood and US media view of Mexico but in most places totally unnecessary. Outside the half-dozen biggest cities and some of the small cartel towns hidden in the mountains, Mexico is perfectly safe and filled with wonderful, gracious people.

Many different places. He worked on automated produce processing equipment.

I love Mexico, it is a regular vacation spot for my wife and I. I'm not stereotyping, but the dynamics of north/central MX is not something one should look into before taking a trip through there.

 

[wnissen]

Many different places. He worked on automated produce processing equipment.

I love Mexico, it is a regular vacation spot for my wife and I. I'm not stereotyping, but the dynamics of north/central MX is not something one should look into before taking a trip through there.

All you have to do is look at the restrictions on Department of State travel to see that there are some places that you don't want to be. Four Mexican states have homicide rates that exceed every country in the world. Some (Yucatán) are safer than the U.S. There is a lot of variation. I love Mexico, but I would not take a road trip there without some pretty detailed planning.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

Many different places. He worked on automated produce processing equipment.

That's one of my rules when traveling. Don't look like you're worth a ransom.

Like the movie says, "stick to the roads. Stay clear of the moors."

You'll be fine.

 

[Norwegian Cave Diver]

I do appreciate the offer, I grew Close to the border spending many of my teen aged weekends in Mexican border towns and everything they had to offer.

I'll have to pass. I have an allergy to incoming bullets!

I wish you the best of luck and hope you will do a daily write up of the adventure, but until the border climate changes and the cartels calm down, I'm gonna have to nope out on that one. If you want a steak as you come through Oklahoma, I can help you out with that.

Safe travels.

Jay

The route shows Armadillo Texas as the closest to Oklahoma. Thanks for the offer. Planning on a serious feed of Texas BBQ!!

 

[Wookie]

The route shows Armadillo Texas as the closest to Oklahoma. Thanks for the offer. Planning on a serious feed of Texas BBQ!!

The best BBQ in the world is in Hill country. If I were driving to the Yucatán I’d stick near the coast. Texas to Brownsville and cross there. I would have nothing to do with El Paso/Juarez.

 

[Hank49]

I've never driven my car to Mexico. But I have rented a car in Cancun and drove down to Chetumal at 2:00 am to 7:00 or so. (Belize border). Dropped the car off there.
Maybe safer having a car with Mexican plates?
Speaking a bit of Spanish would be a plus. We got pulled over by a policeman in Chetumal, who stereotypically gouge gringos for some cash. No worries. He was nice and let us go.
Good luck.

 

[ibj40]

The route shows Armadillo Texas as the closest to Oklahoma. Thanks for the offer. Planning on a serious feed of Texas BBQ!!

I hope your routing app is showing “Amarillo, Texas”.

If it is really showing “Armadillo, Texas”, you need to remove the roadkill identifier from the app and reboot.

Good Luck with your trip!

 

[CycleCat]

I love Mexico, it is a regular vacation spot for my wife and I. I'm not stereotyping,...

Didn't mean to imply that you were stereotyping... just that the US media does. That leads to a lot of people having the knee-jerk reaction that the whole place is a mess, dangerous and that anyone is crazy to go there unless they stay in the sanitized confines of a resort.

 

[chris kippax]

This post reminds me of this sad story. Caveat, I have never been to Mexico and no very little about the country except for the bad press that pops up from time to time. Obviusly Tulum and Sinaloa are in opposite parts of the country.


A Bad Break in Sinaloa: Two Surfers Murdered in Mexico - Men's Journal (mensjournal.com)