Day 113

El Paso, Tx

I only had 4 days left on my visa and wasn’t really sure what my plan was now going to be. Dani was leaving back to Montreal the next day but at breakfast I was told ’so you’re leaving today then?’ and I didn’t quite know what to say. It was kind of bizarre living with a family that all speak rapid Spanish, are all quite friendly but I wasn’t able to really communicate with them. Dani was kind of trapped as well, it would have been nice to set off to see something else after Christmas but then I became trapped and bereft of options. I still had a nice, and vitally, interesting time, but its always good to be able to decide your own destiny. My brother had finally asked me to be his best man at Christmas so I now had a date to alter my trip and I wasn’t sure I liked it. Freedom is probably the best thing in life, and I wanted to enjoy it as much as I could. But now I was about to be set free again I hadn’t the faintest idea of what to do with it. We went and picked up Dani’s laptop from the Cafe and then went to buy some flowers for our hosts and some tequila for Dani’s dad. I said goodbye to Dani and for want of something better to do went back into the States…

This time I was stopped at the border and searched properly, but the guards were quite nice about it, asked if I was writing a blog, were slightly interested in the fact that I could own my own car in the states but were happy to let me come back in. Seems crossing the border was becoming less and less stressful…. :p I went back to Circuit City to see if they had any cheap laptops in stock. They didn’t but I was assured they would be back in on Friday. That was when the truck would be turning up. Hmmmm. Should I stay or should I go….  Checking the couchsurfing site I learned there was an American girl heading south into Mexico around the 12th and she would be flying into Tucson which was pretty close. I would have to leave the states on the 6th but there was a chance I could get back in, my Australian friend Renae had done it. I decided to get a cheap laptop on Friday and then drive over to the border at Nogales. It was only 2 days.

In the meantime I went and bought 6 months insurance for Mexico for $200 and went to watch ‘Aliens vs Predator Requiem’ which was simply terrible (5/10) followed by a night in a cheap hotel.



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