A routine among most expats in San Miguel, and I suspect most places with resident foreigners, is to return "home" periodically, to reconnect with friends and relatives, touch base with the family doctor or just indulge in the guilty pleasure of buying unneeded, overpriced crap at Bed, Bath & Beyond or Ikea. (We bought some copper …
Tag: U.S.-Mexican border
On the road north again
While immigration reform languishes in Washington, Mexicans from around the ranch keep marching on north, illegally, to look for work. The last departures were two of Félix' three brothers. One forty-year-old brother left eight days ago and already called from Dallas to report that he's alive, well and working at a construction site. A twenty-three-year-old …
Impotence at the border, with no pictures
Short of being locked up in a Turkish prison on charges of smuggling heroine, nothing makes you feel smaller or more powerless than crossing an international border even if one of the sides is your own country.Last week on the way to San Antonio Stew and I congratulated ourselves on making such good time, about …
El Rancho Santa Clara 