Reply #6: I got stopped by Border Patrol coming out of Big Bend.

[arcadian]

One of the inland check points. I had dropped a friend off at the airport in Virginia and was driving to California. I really wanted to see Big Bend so I went that way. They decided to run the dogs through my truck at which point I remembered a "pipe" that my friend had used to smoke up at the airport before he got on the plane. For some reason I didn't throw it away and just put it in my bag. Thankfully there wasn't anything in it and the BP let me go. I had visions of them taking my truck apart and confiscating it.

Big Bend is awesome. This was back when they had the open border with Mexico, Santa Elena and I can't remember the other one. I also hiked to the top of Guadeloupe Peak and did a wild cave tour at Carlsbad Caverns. Great trip.

edit: Boquillas is the other town in Mexico you could cross the Rio grande to get to. i actually went there. The ferry consisted of an aluminum john boat, you pay some guy $3 and then they rent you either horses or a taxi takes you into Boquillas.


Boquillas