JAN 19, 2009 ::: We left Tucson after checking out of the hotel and found a roadfood breakfast spot outside of town. We got off the Interstate as soon as we could and traveled through some great desert scenery south through Tombstone to Bisbee, Arizona, a coal-mining town set into the mountains. Kind of reminded us Harpers Ferry, WVa. We spent a good amount of time there walking around and visiting antique malls. We talked to folks about the inauguration (they all assume we're traveling to get away from busy DC).
We were sorry to leave Bisbee, but it was getting very late and we still had a few hours of travel and wanted to get down to the border town of Douglas, Arizona, and cross into Mexico for a short visit. So... we headed down to Douglas and stopped at the visitors' center for info on crossing the border. We met a nice old woman there who told us about the history of the town and told us where to park and walk across to Mexico.
So we did... After a great Mexican dinner in Douglas, we parked the car, payed a buck to a kid running the lot and then walked a block or so through a turnstile (the kind you exit through in the NYC subway) and we were in Mexico. No guards, no questions. Then we walked in an arc back to the US Border, where we passed through a building and had to hand our passports to a border guard who scanned them into a computer. Somewhere, someone in the US government knows we've been to Agua Prieta, Mexico.
Back on the road, the sun was setting behind us over the beautiful mountains of Mexico. We drove north in the pitch dark for four hours, with absolutely no idea what we were passing, to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. We stopped in the middle of nowhere to get out and look at the stars... it was amazing... more stars than sky.
We arrived at the Red Haven Motel at 10:30 pm and fell into bed, ready to hit Texas in the morning.
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