Bienvenidos!

2 days of Greyhounding, 2 days of POOR sleep (for Eric at least), put us less than a block from the border in Calexico. A few locals came up and gave us encouranging words and left while we put the bikes together. Just as the sun was setting we rode those hunks of steel and aluminum across the border only to find that the bank was closed which was needed to pay for the 180 tourist visa. Luckily, an immigration officer took pity on us and just stamped our visa anyway and gave us the extension. Nice start to the trip.

Now we´re drinking Pina Jarritos, making typos on a Spanish keyboard, and sleepìng in the fanciest hotel that Mexicali has to offer, at the discounted rate of 300 pesos!!! Gotta start getting used to dividing everything by 13 to figure out what it costs in USD.

Tomorrow we take off early and start to make our way into the mountains and to National Parque de Constitucion, or a park with a name something like that which we know has hot springs and peaks and other mountainous stuff, complete with what the guidebooks say is a STEEP jeep road to start heading south and toward the Sea of Cortez at San Felipe.

Happy thanksgiving!!!