Glad you're still pressing on with your trip- you'll have a ball! One of the slightly annoying things I noticed on my trip was when I was speaking to North Americans about having just ridden all the way from Argentina, the first response I got from a quite a few (and this was also from bikers) was 'ooh, weren't you scared in Mexico?'. Well no, not really, I really liked it. Great scenery, great dirt roads, really great street food (!) and friendly people much like the rest of Latin America really. Didn't like the 'Topes' (speed bumps) though.
So is it just a typical case of a country fearing the nearest next door neighbour or is there something I should have been more aware of?? Is it the US news coverage of Mexico painting a darker picture of how it is there? Mind you, the UK foreign office website told me to stay well away from Colombia and Equador so I took note and went anyway.
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