March 13th - A night out in Mexicali !!!

The streets of Mexico

A couple of Laurie's nurse friends, and all three of us husbands went down to Mexicali for a fun night.  It's amazing I can still hear.  We drove down to Calexico and parked our cars at the border crossing.  We walked across the border and caught a cab to a nice Brazilian steak house called Mr. Pampas. We sat at the table and ordered drinks and then attacked the buffet.  There is no meat on the buffet, because guys come around with hot meats of various kinds on spits and shave off what you want.  All the food was great, and they also had roasted pineapple that they shave off the spit.

After filling ourselves, we caught more cabs and went to a dance place called Cantina Boston.  There are actually three different places there.  The first is called "Shots"and it's just a bar for doing shots.  They will line up your group's shot glasses on the bar and pour the alcohol liberally and make sure to spill.  They they light the whole set and let it flame down.  Then they pass out the warmed shots.  We did a couple and went next door to the Cantina where the music was much too loud.  We drank beers, danced around and had a great time.  The third place there is just a more upscale tavern for the business crowd.

We caught cabs back to the border and made our way to our cars.  This was our first trip to Mexicali.

Not in Kansas anymore

It took a lot of willpower to stay out.

Our dinner destination

Alfredo, Joanna, Jacy, Amy, Laurie, Myself

Mariachis

$1 US dollar to 17.6 Pesos

The cantina

Flaming shots

cheers

Beauties

February 8th - A trip to Calexico

GEOCACHING  GC26MYM - Power up with star
We started the day by going a couple of miles south of us where there is a row of caches in the "power up" series.  This series stretches over 20 miles.  They run along a row of major high voltage power line towers.  We only did a couple of them.  What we saw were small containers hidden at the base of the towers.

After that little adventure, we continued southwest to see what there was to see in the famous border town of Calexico.  I have to admit, we weren't expecting much.  A small border town that should look a lot like El Centro, but smaller. 

A lot of 60s and 70s Spanish style southern California style buildings and houses, with a newer area growing up with modern shopping centers.  The biggest issue was the long line of cars rolling down the highway through the town headed to and from the border crossing into Mexicali.  We drove around town a little bit, and stopped at the local war memorial park.  There are a number of memorials, but it was disappointing that one, a soldier's cross, was broken off from the top of the boots with just a piece of rebar sticking up.  There is a wall of heroes that has a waterfall on it, but the water was turned off at this time. 

The was also a geocache here, GC2MB0Y - War Memorial That we collected. 
It wasn't a long day, but we were curious and had the chance to run down there and see it.

Power up cache