Tijuana - a Mexican adventure

It took us just 10 minutes to drive to the Mexican border from San Diego, and after parking up, took another 15 on a bus to get to Avenida Revolucion in downtown Tijuana. After a couple of hours dodging the tat sellers, it took 2 hours to return to the USA, and this was even with the bus bypassing the several mile long queue of traffic on the highway. The USA is definitely a difficult place to get into from Mexico.


Tijuana itself was an odd place. It is hard to say whether we saw much of the 'real' Mexico, as it appeared to be a city devoted to trying to sell junk of all sorts to American day-trippers. It was actually quite waring having to step past salesmen every 10 yards or so, selling everything from hand-crafted artifacts to cheapy t-shirts to prescription drugs. To make the whole experience seem more authentically Mexican, we had a couple of burritos for lunch washed down with the obligatory margueritas! Aye Chihuahua!