It's Christmasy time, theres people singing
and playing music all over the place.
These people are so excited about they were being Christmasy in the middle of the road.
We encounter many miles of orange stands. The streets are walled with oranges, and occasionally littered with people that want to take your money and give you oranges. In a scope that as an American don't quite understand. There are numerous trash piles in this part of the country that are massive orange heaps because they can't efficiently dispose of the oranges they can't sell. They were unbelievably cheap, Cara tried to buy 4 oranges for ten pesos (less than a dollar) and they gave here change AND 6 more oranges!
There are also non-orange trash piles.
This one was plastic bottles.
We crossed the US border at the town of Pharr on the day after Christmas, if I recall correctly. Getting out of Mexico was simple, after we figured out the vehicle permit and passport business. Getting into the US, however, took a little more time. We spent 3 or 4 hours in gridlock traffic, moving about 10 feet a minute.
Eventually we made it to the checkpoint, endured a frighteningly quick and simple search, and were finally on our way. We camped out in an RV park about 25 miles north of the border. It was the coldest weather we'd been in so far!
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