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We are Kenny and Ginny. We call Northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula home during the summer months. Together, we enjoy recreational boating on the Oconto River and the Bay of Green Bay and camping in the cooler northern states. When the boating season is over, we become snowbirds and head south for the winter with our luxury DRV Moble Suites 5th-wheel trailer that we call Château de Sallé.

I bought the Château de Sallé in July 2018 with my late wife Nancy after our Monaco Windsor motorhome, OWFISH, was totaled in an accident.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

Mexican War Zone

The once unspoiled border town of Ojinaga, Chihuahua, Mexico has been sucked into the ongoing Mexican drug war zone. The word on the streets here is to stay out of town this weekend. The word has it that anyone caught in the streets of Ojinaga will be shot! We don't know where this warning came from but according to an Associated Press story, as of July 25th, over 10 people have already been gunned down this year in Ojinaga, a town of 20,000, and several more have been gunned down since then.

This hardscrabble Mexican border town welcomed 400 soldiers when they arrived last March to stop a wave of drug violence that brought daytime gunbattles to its main street.

Photo by Guillermo Arias / AP

But then the soldiers themselves turned violent, townspeople say, ransacking homes and even torturing people. A couple of weeks ago, two severed heads were found hanging in the town square and one was found in the possession of one of the soldiers.

There's nothing we need anymore from Ojinaga that we can't get on this side of the border. We'll be leaving here right after Christmas heading to the Serendipity Bay Resort RV Park and Marina in Palacios, TX.

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