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n the snowbird migration during the economic recession some RV parks are already booked for the season more travelers are forgoing trips into the streets of Mexico, fearing the broaddaylight shootouts, homicides and chaos that have come with the rising activity of drug traffickers in border UGG Boots Tall areas.
Others say the concerns are overblown. Mexican border towns like Nuevo Progreso continue to draw a seasonal stream of seniors in search of cutrate prescription drugs, dental work and liquor. Each traveler must weigh the savings against the risk of violence, like a December 2009 firefight that broke out just as Nuevo Progreso concluded a welcomeback celebration for Winter Texans.
One Rockportbased bus charter company has eliminated trips to Progreso from its list of Texas and Louisiana tourist destinations.
Barbara Jordan of Jordan and Jordan Charters said she's heard and read too many stories of beheadings Short UGG Boots and shootouts.
"Bookings were way down," she said. "We used to go two or three times a UGG Boots Classic week, but it's been tapering off every year. side of the border and allowed passengers to walk into Mexico, rather than driving them across. This winter, the Jordans aren't even going that far.
During one of the Jordans' last border crossings, Mexican soldiers conducting inspections boarded the bus with machine guns in hand, Jordan said. "It just scares our seniors to death."
June and Walt Nearhoff Short UGG Boots are considering skipping an opportunity for a $35 bus trip from Port Aransas to Nuevo Progreso. They use a workandcamp program that lets them travel the country and earn their keep at RV parks by doing UGG Boots Bailey Button jobs like maintenance and manning the front desk. They can buy three months' worth of their blood pressure medicine for $135 stateside, or make a day trip to Mexico and buy the same drug from the same manufacturer for $3, thanks to government price controls. Last winter, June Nearhoff saved hundreds of dollars on a root canal in Algodones, across from Yuma, Ariz.
The Nearhoffs had considered higherpaying RV park jobs in Brownsville this year, but instead they chose the Pioneer Beach Resort in Port Aransas.
"We've heard about the problems down in that area, so we came as far away as possible," June Nearhoff said. Embassy, were killed in the western border cities of Ciudad Juarez or Tijuana. citizens to defer unnecessary travel to Tamaulipas, UGG Boots Bailey Button the Mexican state that borders Texas from UGG Boots Bailey Button Laredo to the Gulf of Mexico, including Nuevo Progreso.
Some local officials take the blanket State Department warnings with a grain of salt.
"You can still go over and enjoy dinner UGG Boots Tall or buy medicine in (Nuevo) Progreso, but just be aware of your surroundings like you should be in any city," said George Garrett, security UGG Boots Bailey Button director for nearby cities Weslaco and Donna. "I would not recommend winter UGG Boots Tall tourists go to Reynosa or Matamoros."
"Virtually no locals are going into Mexico for meds right now," said Smith, the Harlingenbased director of the Texas Department of St
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