Around The World In 80 Waves

I drive to the border and join the huge queue to go to Mexico. Border was closed yesterday due another USA nut job going mental with a gun, and the fear that he might try to flee to Mexico, so the queue is even bigger than normal. There is massive security everywhere on both sides of the border and I don’t think I have ever seen so many machine guns being brandished. However I am just waived through when I eventually drive up to the checkpoint. My research told me I would need the Mexican Insurance that I sorted whilst in the USA, but also to arrange a cash bond for the car as well as a temporary importation permit at the border, but I didn’t see anywhere to do that. I am hoping this will not be an issue. Time will tell…

Straight away I turn right alongside the border fence and head back towards the sea passing through Tijuana, which featured in my favourite film Big Wednesday. However despite the surfers running into big trouble in the film whilst here, it still made it look much more glamorous than the reality where huge numbers of desperate people line the border looking longingly north and trying to figure out how to get across. I don’t fancy their chances much at Tijuana. I think the guys from the Great Escape would have problems here!