A NOTE FROM CRAIG POTURALSKI...ROCKY POINT SAFETY

Hola Family and Friends,

Try to avoid driving late at night from the border to Penasco. A friend said he recently crossed the border into Mexico just before midnight and was followed just outside of Sonoita and they were flashing their brights trying to get him to pull over and the sped past him and turned around flashing their brights trying to get him to pull over a few times. Once they were out of sight he sped to Penasco and was very lucky nothing happened to him.

We all know Penasco is safer than most cities in the world but please be extra careful, we have been very fortunate for years coming and going to this wonderful town and let’s do what we can to keep it that way.

Craig Poturalski

The Coastal Group Penasco

SONORA IS SAFE!

Here's yet another promo campaign for Sonora: http://www.sonoraissafe.com/

I'm so glad that they are finally taking positive action toward promoting Mexico!

LINDA ELLERBEE IS ON MY A+ LIST

Please take the time to read this truthful, and at times quite moving article she wrote on Mexico:

One Journalist’s View
By Linda Ellerbee

Sometimes I’ve been called a maverick because I don’t always agreewith my colleagues, but then, only dead fish swim with the stream allthe time. The stream here is Mexico.You would have to be living on another planet to avoid hearing howdangerous Mexico has become, and, yes, it’s true drug wars haveescalated violence in Mexico, causing collateral damage, a phrase I hate. Collateral damage is a cheap way of saying that innocent people, some of them tourists, have been robbed, hurt or killed.But that’s not the whole story. Neither is this. This is my story.

I walk the streets of my Vallarta neighborhood alone day or night. And I don’t live in a gated community, or any other All-Gringo neighborhood. I live in Mexico. Among Mexicans. I go where I want (which does not happen to include bars where prostitution and drugs are the basicproducts), and take no more precautions than I would at home in NewYork; which is to say I don’t wave money around, I don’t act the Ugly American, I do keep my eyes open, I’m aware of my surroundings, and I try not to behave like a fool. I’ve not always been successful at that last one...It would be nice if we could put what’s going on in Mexico inperspective, geographically and emotionally. It would be nice if we could remember that, as has been noted more than once, these drug wars wouldn’t be going on if people in the United States didn’t want the drugs, or if other people in the United States weren’t selling Mexican drug lords the guns...Most of all, it would be nice if more people in the United States actually came to this part of America (Mexico is also America, you will recall) to see for themselves what a fine place Mexico really is, and how good a vacation (or a life) here canbe. So come on down and get to know your southern neighbors. I think you’ll like it here...

For the full article, email me: mynparty@yahoo.com.mx

I YANKED THIS STRAIGHT FROM MEXPATPOLLS

I laughed totally out loud when I read this:

MFRA reports indicate that there are over 45 murders each day in the United States, and that approximately 1.5 million people are victims of violent crime each year. Although areas such as New Orleans, Chicago and New Jersey have much higher crime rates than other parts of the United States, we recommed you just avoid the place entirely. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the US media's frequent generic references to "violence in Mexico" which constantly recycle border crime statistics and apply them to travel advisories (especially during vacation seasons) for the entire country. Really, absolutely nothing to do with it. We swear.

http://www.mexpatpolls.blogspot.com/

MEXICO POLLS

Hola from Puerto Vallarta

The link below is to a blog that will be attached to a site that is still in development and won't be searchable to the public until June 1st. I would like your help in getting some content established before then. Please take a few moments to fill out the poll questions on the right side of the screen. If you know of a foreign resident in Mexico, please send him or her the link as well, the more information we can gather the better.

www.mexpatpolls.blogspot.com

Also, anyone who would like to provide content to the full site after its June 1st launch, please send an article.

Gracias!

Todd

SWINE FLU POLL

Vote on my poll on the right hand side about the swine flu in Rocky Point!

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Leave me a comment on this post or drop me a line: mynparty@yahoo.com.mx to give your opinion!

MORE ON THE SWINFE FLU IN MEXICO AND PARTICULARLY ROCKY POINT

Tracking the progress of H1N1 swine flu

This map and the data behind it were compiled by Dr. Henry Niman, a biomedical researcher in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, using technology provided by Rhiza Labs and Google. The map was compiled using data from official sources, news reports and user-contributions.Rhiza's web-based mapping product, Insight, is helping Dr. Niman get official and unofficial data into the tracking system faster while giving researchers and the public many options for viewing the data in a useful and understandable way. If you would like more information about how your organization can provide dynamic data visualization and analysis tools like this, please contact Josh Knauer at 412-488-0600

MYN says:

PS-The swine flu or H1 whatever it is is the FLU, not a flesh eating bacteria.

Thanks Bill Barvitski!

POST #1718 A DIRECT QUOTE FROM MARK MULLIGAN

"...And folks, please, don't let this swine flu thing keep you from coming down to San Carlos for any reason whatsoever....it's as far from us (in Mexico City) as New York City is from you. In fact, there's a greater risk of me catching it in Phoenix then there is of you catching it here. AND, I guarantee you will not be dragged out of your car by your hair by a drug trafficker and executed, like the anchorman on CNN wants to scare you into believing. I'm still waiting anxiously for the president of Mexico to stand behind a podium with a straight face and issue a "travel warning", alerting citizens not to travel to the U.S. because reportedly there was a carjacking in Cleveland yesterday. Ridiculous? EXACTLY. See you on the beach!..."