Many American and Canadian cruisers go no further than our neighbor to the South, Mexico, for great cruising, diving, fishing, and living among a warm and welcoming population.

So many uninformed and fearful Americans dismiss Mexico as a destination and never learn about the great place that it really is. We’ve traveled (via automobile beach camping–not cruising) along Baja and mainland Mexico’s west coast and found the sites, towns, people, food…pretty much everything to be wonderful. For cruisers, besides all the great cruising-related stuff, another wonder of Mexico is their health care system–low cost and excellent service available to the Mexican people and foreigners alike. Here’s a link about Mexico’s success in putting in place a national healthcare program. And here’s another link to a great online source of info about Mexico–written by ex-pats who are there now: The Truth About Mexico