11/11/07 Veteran's Day

Today we will visit area State Parks.

First stop,,,,,Rockhound State Park.

The park office, restrooms and concession area.

Detailed views of building above.

Scenery from the area.

Some of cactus plants we saw.

We followed the road below to go to another section of the park. Wouldn't this be a great sledding area? I'd hate the walk back up though.

We made our way up a mountain and found picnic areas tucked away here and there.

Here is the view we had when got near the top of mountain.

Driving through the park we noticed the livestock but also took notice that there weren't any fences around. We guessed they just had free range to roam.

This one particularly caught our eye.

When we had seen all there was in this park we decided to move on to the next. On our way we saw a sign that said the Mexico border was only 30 miles away. We made a change in our plans and headed towards to Mexico.

We decided to walk over the border rather than go through the vehicle search on the way back into the States. We had nothing to hide its just that we could see how long the line was and we didn't care to have to wait. We parked the truck in the parking lot and walked into the country.

We first noticed how colorful it is.

The next thing we noticed is how dirty it is. The roads are paved in only a small section of this town. The dust you see in the next picture doesn't stay over there, it makes it way to "Main Street".

I've never seen so many dentists offices in one place! Nearly every other building on the first two blocks of the town housed a dentist office.

Stores sold their wares on the sidewalk rather than in the building.

Anybody ever been in a Disco Sports Bar?

What is pictured below was a common sight as we walked the two blocks of "Main Street".

It didn't take us long to figure out that we weren't comfortable in this border town. We last about 20 minutes and we both had enough. On the way back to the US we passed this fella.




We sure were glad to see this sign!

How often does one get to stand in two countries at the same time?

It isn't often one gets to see this mile marker.

So there was our visit to Mexico. We can say..... been there, done that.

After dinner we tried to watch TV but the cable kept going in and out and we couldn't get a WiFi connection for our computers. We're sick of this park, even though we're paid through Wednesday we've decided to get out of here, its not worth the aggravation to us so tomorrow we'll pull out and make our west.