Almost to the Border

There’s an outlet mall just on the border with Mexico, on the San Diego side, that we decided to check out. We really just wanted to see what’s going on down there. There are all kinds of signs warning you that if you don’t exit here, there will be NO RETURN to the US. And if you don’t have your passport with you, you are fucked. The Border Patrol was everywhere, and there were long lines of cars coming in from the Mexico side. When we left to go back, there were even bigger signs warning us NO RETURN TO US: MEXICO ONLY. As we headed back up the freeway we could see huge numbers of people walking toward the shopping area, presumably having walked over the border from Mexico. And even weirder were the yellow diamond shaped signs: you know the ones that have a picture of a deer, or a child? The ones that warn of “deer crossing” or “watch for children?” These signs had a picture of an entire family, walking with suitcases. Oy.