A quick second in tecate

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Hola everyone. This is a rushed journal entry as I await the bus. I have about ten minutes a little less actually. Tess and I were really sketched out about the room last night. We´ve been staying in some pretty ghetto hotels, but this one topped them. We each had our own single bed and the paint was peeling off the walls. However, I liked the bathroom colors---flourescent pink and orange...

Tecate is cool. We walked around the park on sunday, all the locals were hanging out. We are pretty much the only gringos, so it feels kinda funny. We walked up into some of the neighborhoods, and that was a true mexican experience. Seems like everyone is just living the life, which is much different than in the states. Well we gotta check our bus.

What happened was we left the room at night, and the front desk lady called up this scary guy in a dirty t shirt. He ran up as soon as we went down the stairs. I thought, uh oh...is he trying to rob us or something, and she´s in on it? We waited one second then we went back up. Decided not to leave. He came down the stairs acting all wierd. So we were OK. I think it may´ve been a close one though. A lot of the cheap hotels we stay in, detective colin suspects have institutionalized robbery. Here the lesson,
err on the side of caution, is particularly important.

Anyway, we spent the night thinking of various disasters and plots against us, it was fun. We didn´t sleep too well though. Well, onto the bus. Adios!

Colin 12:45

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