Arrival in Mexico!
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We flew some distance over what looked like total desolation, and I couldn't help grinning to myself
when I heard the groans as people began to realize we were about to land... in the middle of NOWHERE!
I heard one lady exclaim, "where are all the condoes?"
This dirty little village showed up just seconds before we touched down.
I got off the plane into wonderful heat,and went through customs with guards and guns everywhere.
I got a very real sense that this was definitely a foreign country!
By the time I found my courtesy van I discovered I was left to myself,
so I got in the van and we headed to the car rental place.
Although the airport was modern,after leaving it....there was alot of nothing!
like It had been dropped out of the sky by mistake
Then after a bit of dirt and scrub brush, we ended up in a small pocket of buildings and the car rental company
where I began my crash course in "Holy Cow! These are Mexicans here!".
And so I began my adventure in a little black volkswagon going pell mell down a road with no readable signs and nothing that looked familiar.
but had scenery somewhat different than the Ice and snow I had just left only a few hours ago!
Along the way, I got hungry, but was very concerned about the health I might miss
if I tried one of the scattered little "sheds" that looked like the closest thing to a restaurant I could find.
Eventually out of desparation, I Picked a place with a bunch of cars around it and pulled in.
I didn't get photos because the last thing I wanted to do was pull out a huge camera and really look like a target
for the next CNN headline news; "American man missing in a foreign country".
I mean at this point I was still feeling abnormally uncomfortable.
Let me try to describe it to you;
As I pulled into a stop, a cloud of heavy dust coated all the cars and what looked like a poor mans goat shed.
It was a blue canvas tarp strung over long straight natural looking poles, and as I walked in my first thought was;
"where did they get those," because I hadn't seen a tree for hundreds of miles by air.
The walls were plywood leaned up against the poles and there were plastic tables and chairs
like the kind you find in the yard of an American trailer park.
The counter was a 2'x 8' chunk of 5/8" plywood dropped on top of 2 empty crates
and the "cook" was elbow deep in a plastic bowl of some slimy mixture, which I believe was octopus.
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