Esa Laredo-Del Mar
106 W Village Blvd Laredo, Texas, 78040, United States
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Ripped off at the Mexican Border by the Mexican's.
... the American Border Guards - remember, those are the guys on the front lines defending America's borders and Americans and America to protect them and keep them safe.
They ramsacked my car again - about 1/100 gets the special treatment and I get it every time - which took about an hour - apparently they were looking for drugs, guns and money. You would think that they would be happy that I was taking ...
Lawless frontier border town where the 6 gun rules
... 1:00am in the morning......The first 3 hotels that I went to were full - no vacancies.
Got into my hotel room at the "La Hacienda at 2:00am in the morning. Had got a second wind about 7:00pm last nite so decided to keep going until I got to Laredo....
Last 8 hours of driving, it was pitch black out and pouring rain.
The speed limit was 80 MPH (130K) but could not take advantage of that high speed limit because ...
Mexico
Nuevo Laredo was not a very safe place so we elected to stay in a very safe hotel. Which was lovely and very quiet, just what we needed after a long day on the road. This also meant we were trapped in the hotel until morning. We were unable to even go walking around and stretch our legs. Fortunately we got a fair bit of walking back and forth in customs getting all of ...
CLUCK CLUCK. IT'S SUPER CHICKEN.
If you were expecting every day to be an extreme adventure, you're on the wrong blog.
MEDICAL REPORT: Getting incrementally better every day. Not good enough to take walks or hazard a scooter ride again, but maybe in a couple of days.
Lazy day again. Three noteworthy experiences...
One: We passed what must have been a free-range chicken farm. Each chicken had her own little ...
Crossing and New Friends
... and head for Aguascaliente where Ana family await her. We met brother, sister, mother, father and grandmother. They could not have been more sweet. It was late and raining by this point but they help us find a beautiful Motel, The San Marcos, which would allow us to have Skipper and Rascal in our room. Slept like a LOG! The most amazing part of this story turns out that George, Ana and Rob all have the same last ...



