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Seized narco-money This post is prompted by a comment sent in by one of our readers. He is coming to Mexicali on business, and wonders if he will be safe. That’s a very fair question. My short answer is “yes.” Jim and I could only afford to move to a border town. The [...]  Our Christmas Turkey Before any of our family members arrived, Jim and I went to pay our respects to our landlord, Señor Medina in the afternoon on Christmas Eve. It was also time for us to pay the rent. Señora Medina greeted us at the door, and invited us in, which was a [...] Happy Camper Trailer Park Jim and I decided to drop in on our old trailer park neighbors, Don and Irma, up in El Centro. There are a number of trailer parks in and around El Centro. We lived, along with Don and Irma in one of the more affordable ones, Happy Campers. At [...] A beautifully decorated Mexicai home “Tis the season to be jolly.” Christmas is almost upon us. During our drives through the Mexicali nighttime streets, most of the homes are lit up with Christmas lights, and even some impressive nativity scenes. Christmas for Mexicans, is the most important religious holiday of all. Christmas is [...] The peso is getting cheaper! I know I wrote about the rise of the dollar versus the peso back in October, but it just keeps getting better! In the last three months, the Mexican Peso has lost 37% of its value against the U.S. Dollar. Let me re-phrase that – in the last [...] The Innocent-looking tunnel house Mexicali is a border town, just right next to Calexico, California. As such, it’s a great place for smugglers to build underground tunnels to Calexico. To do that, the houses where the tunnel originates in Mexicali have to be just directly across from Calexico. This makes it relatively easy [...]
After our border crossing into Calexico and our breakfast at McDonald’s we headed off to El Centro, which is about 10 miles north-west of Calexico to pay a visit to the Social Security office. Once inside, we took our seats, and waited for our turn. Fortunately, it was not crowded, and soon we were both sitting in front of the nice gentleman, behind the counter. Jim had his questions ready. Continue reading Social Security Ripp-Off!!! We apologize to our readers, but our site was hacked, and we were down for the better part of two days. Don’t worry, our site, including your comments, is backed up daily.  Calexico's main street with McDonald's Every so often, Jim and I take a short hop across the border to Calexico, California. It’s a short trip as Calexico is on one side of the border and we are on the other. Jim could throw a horseshoe from our back yard into Calexico, easy. Usually, we get there pretty early in the morning so we can have breakfast at McDonalds. On our last trip we went to El Centro, which is about 12 miles north-east of Calexico because Jim had made an appointment to see a doctor for some stomach problems. I told him, “Why not just go to our Mexicali doctor, Arturo?” Jim’s answer seemed to make sense. “MaryAnn, I’m on Medicare, and my doctor visit in El Centro is gonna be pretty much free.” Continue reading Medicare Ripoff – at least for us…  The sandy riverbank where Jim & Rex would walk Just across the street from our place is a bare sandy field that stretches north about 80 yards to a small green river. The river is about 50 feet across, and on the other side is the United States. It’s a very nice place for bicycle rides and jogging, or just to sit and watch the river go by.  The new US steel wall It had become a favorite place for Jim to take Rex for a long walk, or a brief jog. All of a sudden the sandy field and the river were gone – blocked off by a huge ugly 20 foot steel wall right by the side of the street. One day, there was no wall; the next there it was. Just like that.  Working on the steel wall Jim and I were amazed at how fast the thing appeared, and got in our truck to check it out. It turns out that the sandy riverside where Jim and Rex used to spend time was not Mexico, but America. They were walking and jogging in America and didn’t even realize it. Apparently, there was no need to wall off anything because of the river. Now times had changed, I guess. As soon as Jim started taking some photos, the people working to put up the wall ran and hid behind their trucks and equipment. Did they think Jim was some kind of terrorist? Did they think that if he got their photo, they were marked for death? Maybe so, because as Jim started walking over to talk to the folks – off in the distance two trucks started speeding towards him – one was a US Border Patrol truck, and the other, the Mexican police. All of a sudden another US Border Patrol truck came over the hill at Jim. Continue reading The US Border Patrol chases Jim |
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