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Originally Posted by WEASEL
Any info on crossings, routes & sights for the east coast of Mexico coming down from Texas? I could probably spend 3 or 4 days in Mexico then I would have to head back to the northeast U.S.
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Just getting from Penn. all the way South through Texas to the border is a fairly major cross country ride. Maybe 2 or 3 days? Depending if you ride at night and do 10 hour riding days or longer.
If rushed, I would not bother with Mexico. You'll be tired and more liable to **** up and get dead. You cross that border, well, that's another country over there. (old movie line)
But Mexico is a JOY if you have the time to relax and enjoy it. You'll need minimum a week to even scratch the surface, IMHO.
I would stay away from crowded highways and take smaller roads. In that area of Mexico, my favorite town is Real De Catorce, a historical former Silver mining Ghost town. Neat town, lots of cool easy dirt roads all around it.
If you have more time, from there, head WEST towards Zacatecas. Another town worth seeing.
I guess you could do a Pub Crawl in whatever border town you cross at. Be careful, lots of drunk Gringos end up in jail in those border towns.
We ran into some Gringoes who lost their near new truck ... worth about $40K usd. GONE!
Policia got it, apparently.

They were such redneck assholes, we figured they deserved it ... we, left, just let them stew.