Post #597834 by Ojaitimo on Sat, Jul 16, 2011 2:32 AM

On 2011-07-11 23:26, notebooms wrote:
i picked up a couple small tiki carvings there about 5 years ago- used to go every year to visit down there. i'll grab some pics and post soon... stopped going after we got caught close to bullets flying in TJ with the family about 2 yrs ago....

is it quiet nowadays down there with the instability fears ?

-scott noteboom

Seems quiet in about 10 visits in the last year that I have witnessed. I do see soldiers in trucks once a trip but they actually make me feel safer knowing they are around. They are a patrol and quick reaction force that any group would be crazy to take on. The coast of Baja around Rosarito seems to be calm as well. Sylvester Stallone is making a movie at the Baja Studio next month. They are hiring anglo extras, thought I might go down during the filming and get some stories from the American ex pats that live there and will likely be extras. The last weekend I was there over the 4th of July, some of the beach hotels were packed, Revolution had a few thousand people at the Caesar Salad Festival.(The salad was invented in Tijuana, I kid you not.