When we arrived at Agua Caliente to have Lary's birthday buffet dinner we were out of luck, we were surprised and quite disappointed to find out that the buffet closes both Tues and Weds, so we had to go to the Steakhouse, ouch, so that was way more expensive than we thought, though delicious for sure.
The next day the 28th we did some retail therapy. I bought a new jazz CD reduced price, Eric Clapton and Wynton Marsalis, then we ate late lunch at Manhattan in the Desert, did a few more chores and came home.
The 29th we went down to Yuma, AZ, a trip of 3 hours one way, to visit our friends Nadia and Walter from home, then we 4 went down to San Luis Rio Colorado in Mexico, another very busy Mexican border town where you park at the US border and cross over into Mexico, but it was hard to find a nice place to eat and maybe even have a margarita, so we ended up kind of wandering about aimlessly, then ate at a sandwich kind of place, and crossed back out again.
Not much to recommend that town to us although everybody we met was very friendly and helpful too, but it seems that a huge bunch of day workers in the agricultural sector live there in Mexico and cross over on foot daily to work in the fields in the US, in the famous Imperial Valley that has all the winter sunshine, so grows many of the veggie crops for the rest of the country, and likely even for export.
That area is totally flat, and there are miles and miles of cultivated fields irrigated by canals. You see the swarms of picker working in the fields, and they even have machines where the workers stand alongside an outside conveyor belt type of machine right in the fields, and do all the packaging of the veggies right there, and then load the produce on to the trucks for shipping.
Folks at home, don't forget to wash all your veggies well, very well, before you use, cook and eat them.
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