“Hi, I’m Barak Obama and I want to spread YOUR wealth around so that YOU can take care of MY Aunt who lives in the slums and my brother who lives in a hut!”I would rather take care of them with my “wealth” than contribute to Cindy McCain’s drug addiction. (Cindy McCain being a metaphor for all greedy rich people, who didn’t get their wealth the old fashon way.granny, tnat tape was from the “Kevin Ross” blog talk show. jody, why are you even trying to give a lucid argument to anon.?

Common sense is definitely a prized possession, as is trusting your instincts. Very true about not being able to 100% trust information from the locals either. Some are very well meaning, and some are also based on their desire to keep your business there.

I’m so glad you’re enjoying Mexico. It is such a beautiful country with such beautiful people in it. It makes me sad that the country is suffering because of these histrionic advisories. It always strikes me weird because we don’t say Oh my! There was a shooting in NYC, don’t go to the US!

I follow the UK’s travel advisories in Twitter. They seem to be reliable and based less on hysteria.

I am so glad you wrote this! We are currently in Mexico (our first time) and before we left we had so many people saying things like “be careful” or “keep your eyes open” and even “I dont know if id go there”. Most of these people, if not all of them, hadnt even been to Mexico but seemed to know what they were talking about.

So of course we arrived in Mexico feeling a little unsure and questioning ourselves on our decision to come here.

I have no idea why people give Mexico such a hard time!! We have been here for 2 weeks and while we are staying in ‘touristy’ areas, we have hired a car and explored many of the ‘non-touristy’ areas. And I gotta say I LOVE MEXICO!

The place is full of color, has many beautiful beaches and the people – Some of the friendliest yet!

Why do people insist on judging a country before they even go there for themselves. And yes, I understand that there are some bad people in Mexico, but there are bad people everywhere!! We felt more unsafe in some parts of our US road trip than we have in Mexico. In fact, we’ve not once felt unsafe in Mexico.

Unfortunately we live in a world that has some bad people in it but its such a small percentage and every country has them so I dont understand why people put so much focus on it!

I used to get daily alerts from an advisory telling me which countries were unsafe for travel. I opted out from those emails because most of the time it was for reason that would not affect us in the slightest (like your story above).

I am not saying people should ignore warnings, of course not, but perhaps look at them with open eyes and dont judge a whole nation on it.

If more people relied on their gut and common sense for most things in life, we would all be better off, no? 🙂

That must’ve been a bit of a heart break! But I’m so glad you got past that fear and will be able to go. I’ve heard so many wonderful thing about Jordan. I’m excited to go there as well.

Thanks! Never thought about that. Hmmm