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MadMonkey wrote: ↑Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:55 pm
(Post from 2018)

I spent a lot of my youth throughout the country as a missionary kid.

No way I'd go back by choice now.

So I'm in Mexico by choice right now...

In Playa del Carmen less than 300 miles from where I spent much of my childhood as a missionary kid. Still the exact same Mexico as 20 years ago, just slightly more developed. Same beggars, trinket vendors trying to sell you stuff, adorable little kids hawking homemade bracelets while their moms wait half a block away, amazing and awful smells at the same time, half finished cinder block buildings, cheap tourist traps... feels like home again

I didn't miss this place at all. Walking home at 0430 alone is one of the sketchiest things I've done lately

Deltaboy wrote: ↑Mon Dec 03, 2018 11:30 am Sad it was a place we all wanted to go in the 1980s.

It was already a mess at that time, just for different reasons. I spent a lot of my youth throughout the country as a missionary kid.

No way I'd go back by choice now. Last time I was there was around 2008 on a cruise, we stopped at Cozumel and I didn't even bother getting off the boat I was so tired of it