On the Plain of Snakes

I will go with Paul Theroux wherever he takes me.

This time, it was to Mexico.

Theroux lives in the northern United States, so he hadn't been as inculcated to the dangers of Mexico as we here in Texas are. He was warned to be careful in many areas of Mexico, and he listened to those warnings and tried to create a route around the dangerous parts. I've often wanted to go to Mexico, but I've been repeatedly frightened away from planning a trip there, so I really enjoyed this trip with Theroux along the border, to Mexico City, and then down into the rural and poorest parts of Mexico in the south.

Lesson taken away from this book: Avoid the police in Mexico. The police seem to be one of the most dangerous parts of the country.