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How to Travel in New Mexico

editor — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 03:45:00 +0000

New Mexico is proving to be a pretty unforgiving place. There is a reason Walter White decided to cook his “product” out here. There is nothing here. Like previous days the old highway runs alongside the interstate. I counted 8 cars in 4 hours of running on the old road this morning. Weeds and grass are taking over, it won’t be long before the old 66 is nothing but a grass track. I would usually list all the towns we have been through during the day, civilisation here is near non existent. Running through Tucumcari this morning you got a

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Mexico City

editor — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 16:12:00 +0000

On weekends day-trippers form lines several blocks long going into and coming from Tijuana and other border towns. As recently as 1920 Tijuana was a small town, and during prohibition in this country Tijuana was a place for border residents to get a drink. Then it was simply called El Rancho de Tia Juana (Aunt Jane’s Ranch). Today, thanks to tourism and proximity to San Diego its population is close to one million. The city offers bullfights, dog races and a radical change in culture. The same is true of Juarez, across the border from San Antonio, Texas, and to

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MEXICO

editor — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:24:00 +0000

Aficionados of Mexico proclaim it to be the destination to end all destinations: a land of contrasts and wonder, offering beaches, mountains and fascinating Indian ruins inexpensive, colorful the land of friendly people, exciting food and drink. The detractors reply: Yes, the food is exciting, especially when loaded with E.coli germs that cause uninterrupted diarrhea and vomiting. Some people are not very friendly, certainly not the police on the take, where justice seems more related to influence than reason. It is the land of the mordida, the payoff, where bribery is a way of life. A land of contrast between

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Mexico Map

editor — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:14:34 +0000

Politically, Mexico comprises thirty-one states plus the federal district. Population is about seventy million and growing fast. (Only forty years ago the population was about thirty-five million.) Geographically Mexico is part of North America even though the Mexicans refer to U.S. residents as Norte Americanos. Its extensive coastline borders the Pacific on the west and the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean on the east. The Sierra Madre mountains dominate the topography. In the southern state of Oaxaca the Sierra Madre divides and runs northward. The Sierra Madre Oriental mountains form the eastern edge, the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains the

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