The Trip to Mexico

My flights went well. There was a little turbulence on both flights, but nothing major. I was picked up at the airport by one of Genesis's summer staff named Bob. He works at the Ranch (where we do the summer camps) from Sunday to Wednesday every week all summer long. We met the Amigo group (youth group) that helped out last week at a Burger King a few minutes from the Mexico/US border and Bob shared some information with the group about crossing the border and the trip down to the Ranch.

Crossing the border was interesting. It was strange to see guards with huge guns standing around watching everything. Crossing into Mexico took very little time. They checked to see what the Amigo group was carrying (they had brought a big trailer for all of their stuff) and they wanted to know why we were going into the country. Then we were on our way. However, the line for going into the US was super long and slow-moving. Hopefully when I head back across it won't be too backed up.

The scenery on the way down to the Ranch was interesting. We stayed relatively close to the ocean the whole time and I got to see how much different the shoreline was to what I am used to. From the road we were driving on, it dropped off pretty steeply to the water and the coastline was super rocky. Very pretty, but not a good place to try to build a sand castle.

I took some pictures of the scenery, but they didn't turn out very well. I may try to post some of the more decent ones if I figure out how to do that. There were a number of pretty houses near the coast and even some condos. Many of the condo buildings are not finished due to the slump in the economy. There are also a lot of homes in rough shape and a lot of dirt. Mexico seems to be short on grass, but makes up for it with dirt.

We (Bob, myself, and the Amigo group) met most of the summer staff at a taco stand about 30 minutes from the Ranch for dinner around 5 o'clock. It was really good. They also had coke there in glass bottles...good stuff. Once we finished eating we loaded up and drove the last bit of the trip to the Ranch.