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Mexico

After staying a month in Phoenix, we decided we would go to Mexico. First, we packed up our things and left our house in Phoenix. Then we drove to a storage unit to put our trailer there. We took some things out of the trailer there so that we could have them in Mexico. After that, we drove up to the border. They looked at our car for a few minutes before letting us through. An hour or two after that, we passed a military checkpoint. We had to get past there before they'd let us into San Felipe. They also looked at our car for a few minutes, then they allowed us to continue. Finally, we found our home and we are there now.

The Mexican Flag.
It's going to take some time getting used to Mexico. It's mostly all Spanish with few English words. Google even gave me results in Spanish before I fixed it. We haven't been here for very long though, so we haven't seen much. We saw the beach (which was in an extreme low tide, I think it was almost a kilometer down) and we went to a few pools, but that was pretty much it. Then again, we've only been here for a few days, so it's not like we'd have seen much yet.


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