This comes to all from near the Estacion de Santa Engracia a few miles north of Cd. Victoria, Tamaulipas. I arrived here last Monday travelling in a small caravan with my neighbours who had been doing some (considerable) Christmas shopping in McAllen on the week-end before the Feast of the Nativity.
Suffice to say that the warnings from the Texas Department of Public Safety and the United States Department of State, were a bit......shall we say.....over-inflated. The traffick was heavy....there were no incidents.....and the biggest news on the television and radio down here has returned to drunks running into bridge-supports and Pedro beating up Maria after one or the other or both returned from a night of celebration at the local cantina. One Pedro did manage to kill his Maria in Monterrey....but it did not count because she had a protective order out on him....therefore nothing happened to her.....Right? Chalk up another great success story for passing a law...relying upon government...and then walking away to tell everyone that all poor children will be fed and we can read the law once we pass it. Ah....democracy.
You all will have another up-date next Monday or so. It is amazing how lazy one becomes here.....I shall try to be more detailed in the next transmission.
