San Ysidro/Tijuana - music of Bic Runga – Gravity
Recently I discovered that the tram that passes by my house goes all the way to Mexico, to the border city of
Therefore, I bought a tickets, jumped in the tram and started so the adventure!
I passed downtown, the industrial district, some villages, colored wild flowers bordering the tracks,
Amazing how fast you reach an end of a road.
One crossroad up I passed a bridge (which has also a side walk!) built over the highway I-5 which crosses the two countries. I've got there around noon. So, the view had to impress me on my return, in the evening, when I walked the same road towards the tram station. The bridge offers a perfect view over the hills and towns from "the other side". What catches the attention, though, is the huge Mexican flag that flutters in the wind and obviously can be observed from an impressive distance. Hm... great idea!, but what just happened with the American patriotism?... Probably was all wasted through the building of some 500km of fence dedicated to the limitation of southern immigration?!
The moment that moved me:
Through the evening, an amazing number of Mexicans get back home from work, at the south of the American dream. Simple humans, that live their lives between two worlds, were walking home with different vehicles – cars (apparently bought and registered in
I got back on the tram. Only now I realized how empty it actually is, when going back to the city...
The sun set over the Pacific, bringing night over
Note: George Lopez could raise the moral, right about now.
Interesting! It's just one of those things that changes you a bit inside after you see it. They must be working very hard, and that customs looks just like a crowded street in Bucharest :D
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