Recent content by Cactus Jack

I believe the laboratory that your are referring to is Flores. It is on Sinaloa, east of Benito Juarez, somewhat north of Burger King. It is relatively new, with high-tech equipment.

You should always pay with CASH using Mexican pesos when buying gas at Pemex stations. Actually, it is always best to pay with local currency, and AVOID using credit cards in Mexico. As far as buying gas in Rocky Point, one would need a calibrated container to find a Pemex station with honest...

The posts of the latter part of this thread were focused on the subject of the legality of Mexican nationals driving foreign registered vehicles in Mexico, not the nationalization of foreign vehicles in Mexico, a totally different subject, and a rather complicated process. A question about...

Sorry, Rosy, I disagree. Aduana and Hacienda have nothing to do with each other. It is illegal for anyone to drive an "un-imported" vehicle in Mexico, whether foreign or Mexican national. Tourists are not in violation of Mexican law for driving their foreign registered (un-imported) vehicles in...

Doesn't matter. The narcos know about them long before they arrive. No shortage of the incredible amounts of dope flowing north across the border. The illegal drug trade is more tightly controlled now than ever before. Try to go "private", outside the network, and you are quickly dead. Most of...

You are "explaining this" because what happened was not what you represented in your post. You implied that Rosie gave you two weeks of insurance on credit, which is misleading and sends out the wrong message that Rosie does business on credit. Why couldn't you immediately have made out another...

How Much?

Either money or mota, but not both. Most likely mota, and the strip served its' one-time purpose, at very low cost. Easy to destroy, making good government publicity. Better to come across a load of something that you couldn't grow in your own back yard!

If you stop at Gringo Pass to buy "supplies", rather than try to cut back into the line, it is only proper to drive to the end of the line and take your place.

Business is business, and it is not good to let "personal softness" interfere with good business policy. When one is in business, extending personal credit is not good business practice, even though not doing so may go against one's personal feelings. I have been a "softee", which has sometimes...

Our federal agents being told by their superiors to violate the law (actually, US federal law, Mexican federal law, and international law) and be paid. How is that any different than narcotrafficantes paying our federal agents to violate the law? Corruption is corruption. Then Big Sis Nappy has...

Interesting that this guy also did his own "claims adjusting", leading me to believe that he was also self-insuring, and not sending the premiums in to the underwriter. In the case of being billed after six months for an annual policy, the policy number on the renewal notice didn't match my...

Additional driver discounts is a good selling point for driver's license liability policies. I renewed the policies for me and my wife last July, and paid $82.99 for each of us on individual policies. I did not get an additional driver discount, nor was I offered that option. I have been dealing...

Always seemed to me to be a strange place to build a shopping mall with movie theaters. I would think the location would be more appropriate to take advantage of the picturesque view of the harbor, with large-windowed restaurants, open patios, etc.

I certainly believe in "buying local" in order to help support those living in the community that we enjoy. However, I also believe is shopping around for the best price. I buy insurance on my driver's license that covers me for any vehicle that I drive in Mexico. This costs me $82.99/yr, for...