Yes. We both went to language school for Spanish and lived in Honduras for 10 years and in Mexico for 12 years but my wife tells it was 13 years in Mexico. Anyway, we have many friends in both countries and occasionally visit even now. We used to drive down but cartels have gotten so bad we just fly now. Plus getting too old to drive. We once pulled a 28 ft travel trailer all the way from USA to Mexico then to Honduras and back with my 1ton Ford diesel. Broke the springs on those huge speed bumps and a little Mexican mechanic fixed her up with some car leaf springs. My wife cooked up some fried red snapper and we treated the mechanic and of course paid him too! On another occasion my wife and I also drove a Honda Goldwing motorcycle from USA down to the southern highlands of Mexico pulling a combi camp (I had two combi campers one 11ft long and one 10 ft long see what they looked like here. People in campgrounds though it=the combi was cool Bing Videos) behind us. I had it fixed with a boot where we could sit a 5000 BTU A/C next to the camper on a coke crate pull the poot over it and have A/C! If I remember correctly we pulled the 11 foot to Mexico. That was quite the adventure. After getting back to the USA we then pulled the 10 ft combi camper with the Goldwing up to Alberta Canada to visit some friends. Then we headed to Glacier National park. Thought they were not going to let us in as the rig was about 18" too long. It had to fit between two lines on the park entrance. They asked if I could take that wire basket from the receiver at the back of the camper and put it on top of the camper. I did so and we barely fit between the lines. Grizzlies on the prowl in the park at night at the campground and us in a tent camper. It was sort of spooky wind howling through the trees in the park campground. Us being from the south we had no experience with bears and the park ranger came around and told us to go put our cooler in the bear box so the bears wouldn't get into it. I didn't even know there was such a thing as a bear box in a campground. I was more afraid the bear would eat us. We then went to Yellowstone and camped then went on down through the mountains on a long gravel road on a rainy muddy day to Cody down to Wyoming. It was real cold that day. All in all it was a wonderful trip. We even ate ribs at the restaurant bar where Buffalo Bill would ride his horse up into the bar many years ago. Buffalo Bill Cody Loved The Sheridan Inn So Much, He Held Auditions For His ‘Wild West' Show There | Cowboy State Daily We also saw Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Janes's burial site at the MT Moriah Cemetery in Deadwood South Dakota. We also visited Mt Rushmore. I have hiked for 12 days through the mountains and jungles of Honduras all the way to the northern coast coming out to a coastal town called Palacios. I have stayed in many a mud hut in Honduras ...drilled water wells... and did other things to help school kids. One of the projects my wife had was to teach ladies how to make and sell purses and she would buy back packs and school supplies to put in them for the little kids down there. I have even taught some village Hondurans how to trade stocks way..way... back in the day. I helped them get a passport, open a bank account and open a couple of brokerage accounts in the USA. Then I funded it initially for them. It was fun. A lot of fun training them! I had to use market terminology (vegetable markets are common there) for them to understand supply and demand and how it relates to price. And I had to teach them the concepts such as going long...short...etc. We would ride into town to an internet cafe and I would put my software on the computer and they would trade. I think the highest education they had was 6th grade. One I think had a 2nd grade education. It was a blast teaching them and training them. One of them I had trained to trade sadly passed from cancer. He was my very close friend. We were helping him with chemo costs in the capital city Tegucigalpa and they accidentally overdosed him. I felt so bad. He was almost on the last chemo treatment. His wife who was also our dear friend too was left with a mud hut. He always wanted to give her a good house so after he passed we (my wife and I) went to Honduras with my daughter (now passed too from cancer in 2018) and her husband (brick mason). We built our friends a house. I hired Honduran builders and I oversaw the project. We built the entire house (2 bath 3 bedrooms) and a porch. We did all including digging the foundation with picks and shovels in around two months. I had hired a roof crew..block crew and guys to stucco. Plumber ..bathrooms and kitchen...which I did a lot myself as they plumb different down there. The locals I don't think had ever seen a house built that fast. It was block..stuccoed...tile floors. It was a pleasure to do this for our friends. We had a blast. Would sit outside in the shade in the evenings eat and play guitar and sing. Such a good time. I miss those days. We have always been the adventurous sort but now because of health and age we have slowed down quite a bit. I had me a 7/8 blood quarter house that I used to ride in the mountains in Honduras. It was back in the day of Slyvester Stallones Rocky movies. The locals named my big quarter horse Rocky and it stuck. Poor thing drowned attempting to swim across a swollen river with rapid currents. We had a time keeping him fenced in. He would jump the barbed wired fence around the pasture if mares came around. Many stories...maybe one day I can sit with my great grandchildren on my porch in a rocking chair and tell the stories. So many to tell..... I shouldn't be typing any more. This ain't my thread. Man I just got carried away today typing.
Georgia originally,north Texas currently. I had a traveling sales position in the early 80's and made a few calls in the RGV. Great weather but I wouldn't care to live there.
It can get real hot in the summer and windy. Lived there in the 60's then back there for a bit in the 80's. Things were different back then. Now it is overcrowded. Not the sleepy towns it used to be in the 60's. Way too much traffic for me. I have a cousin who lives in Wichita Falls Texas and another in Ft Worth. I don't think either can speak a complete sentence is Spanish LOL.
@Laissez Faire, I posted this post in @volpri's journal and for completeness, it may be worthwhile to repost here: There is real value in taking advantage of a BO and keep running instead of a quick profit.