A Fun Day in Mexico

Thursday was such a busy day. Bob and I got up early and got everything stowed away so we could be on the road by 8:00 am. I haven’t said much about our campground but it had lovely mountain views.

About an hour into the drive to Deming, NM we started smelling a burning odor. Bob pulled over and saw that the tech last night had not threaded on the radiator cap properly so coolant was dripping onto the engine. Once the cap was placed properly we were good to go. Whew! It’s a good thing Bob knows about such things!

We arrived in Deming at about 11:00, having lost an hour when we crossed into NM. We set up and then headed south about 30 miles by car to Paloma, Mexico. Wow, the border sure has changed in a year. There’s a building we had to enter and pass through which seems to serve no purpose other than pass people through. We didn’t even have to show our passports. It did hold a bank and some other offices but not much else. Strange.

We stopped to see if we could get same day appointments with the dentist, but it was a no-go. We’ll have to find a dentist somewhere else. But by now we were hungry so we went into the Pink Store and had a nice meal.

It’s always fun shopping in the Pink Store; we picked up some hand blown glass for a friend who had asked us to get it for her, a painted parrot for our Mesa house, and a pretty hand painted jug that will hold my kitchen utensils.

We had been a little nervous about coming back through Customs into the U.S. with all the border hoopla going on but it ended up being our easiest border crossing yet. Since it’s so late in the season there were not a lot of tourists passing through and we had no one ahead of us at all. The agent even joked around with us, which is not that common in our experience. So, easy peasy!

So we are caught up and ready to head off to Fort Stockton, TX tomorrow where we’ll spend a night before traveling to Kerrville Saturday afternoon. Tomorrow we’ll also pass into another time zone so we’ll just be one hour behind our family on the east coast. Two time changes in two days is hard but we’ll get used to it.