17 Feb 2000 Hotel Continental, Juarez Crossed over to Mexico today for the first time and will probably do a bit of to-ing and fro-ing along the border. We crossed over to Mexico in a major dust storm, El Paso is a hole, but at least we now have all the relevant paper work and documentation to take our car into Mexico. The Americans are convinced we will be back as they can’t believe anyone would keep heading south around here. Mind you when I see how seedy El Paso and Juarez are I can understand why they may think that. Just ran into the same 12 year old boy escorting yet more fat American old men back to the room down the hallway in the Hotel Continental we are staying in on my way to
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