26 December '07
Wednesday
We were going over to Mark and Susans for Christmas dinner yesterday but the wind came up and started one heck of a sand storm. It was so bad it woke me up about 3am and continued to get worse throughout the morning. It got so bad that I pulled in both slides on the coach. Later on in the afternoon when the wind had let up I stepped out side and found that sand had found it's way into every little nook and cranny and also had blown one of our chairs down the street and taken our flag completely off the pole and taken it half way to the Mexican border. Luckily it had caught on a fence so I was able to get it back...I can just see the red, white, and blue flying through Mexico... Today we finally got together with Mark and Susan at their house. The wind had finally deminished, the sun was warm, and all of us were ready for a great Christmas steak dinner. On the 27th, about noon, I talked Louise to join me back in Algondones for another shrimp taco. Algondones is just 3 miles away from our campground so getting there is just the thought. When we arrived in the parking lot we saw that there was a whole lot more cars parked there today...no big deal, there are a lot of places for everyone to go. And as it turned out it wasn't a big deal. We went to our margarita patio, had lunch and walked back out to the border crossing. As we rounded the corner to the crossing we were taken back as we saw the line of those that decided to go back at the same time as we did... Once we got to the back of the line we knew that we were in for a long wait to get across the border. It was a very agravating 2 hours. Our "taco lunch" cost us $20 plus the $5 for parking, plus the 2 hours of waiting in the line and the gas to go the 6 miles....what a bargain!!! I guarantee you we wont do that again...