Is Mexico Safe?
Is Mexico safe? Once again this morning I received an email with this question. Someone had been on this site and had some interest in going to Copper Canyon. I get this question quite often and I...
View ArticleOpen the Door and Let em In!
Every day tons of products and materials flow across the border both ways–including some weapons to the consternation of the Mexicans. I saw this article by Rana Foroohar on immigration reform in Time...
View ArticleRunning trip to Juarez Marathon
I love Juarez–the much maligned sister of El Paso. As I have walked the streets there numerous times over the past few years (yes, during the “worst of times”) I have come to find it friendly,...
View ArticleViolence in Mexico: an update
Here are some of my personal observations on the security situation- especially in Chihuahua and Copper Canyon: 1. I was in Puebla and Mexico City a few weeks ago for 10 days and security was not even...
View ArticleThe Birth of the Margarita- Safely
I travel all over Chihuahua as we treat people to our Copper Canyon train trips. Having studied and experienced he various ways of getting in and out of Copper Canyon I have opted out of other options...
View ArticleIs Mexico Safe…Really?
Lonely Planet has published a very good article recently that brings some reason to this issue of violence in Mexico and how it affects Americans who travel there. We have written about it and have...
View ArticleIs Mexico Safe?
Yes, yes, yes- Mexico is safe! One more article on travel in Mexico just came out from someone who has actually been there- this time from one of the writers I recently took through Chihuahua. We had a...
View ArticleMarathon in Juarez- I ran it!
Go to http://www.facebook.com/maratongnj and you can see me run by at about 27 seconds in my white Authentic Copper Canyon shirt with my friend Sergio Madero right behind me. Yes Juarez in changing I...
View ArticleOnly the beginning…
Back from Copper Canyon Just back from another safe and fascinating trip to Copper Canyon, I was sitting this morning in the cafe of an El Paso hotel gobbling down some breakfast. From the muzak-like...
View ArticleWalk Across Juarez #7
I am smiling chuckling- we had so much fun there in Juarez. I am high in Copper Canyon along the train line in the little town of Areponapuchi. My room at Mansion Tarahumara is littered with scrawled...
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