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<blockquote data-quote="rezrider" data-source="post: 12928" data-attributes="member: 79">Non-bike related story however a border crossing that should have gone bad.............I was workng for a company in Corona that was doing business with an aluminum extruder in Tijuana (east end). I as well as a co-worker were to meet up with a guy from our headquarters in Chicago to make a visit to this facility. We went down there in a rental car...&quot;not to be taken across the border&quot;...Chicago was driving, it's in his name he says, F' it and went across anyways. We got lost immediately drove around town for about an hour when we finally found the street we were looking for. We paid our visit, spent a couple hours there and left...We're in line to cross back into the US, get up to the front and get waved over to &quot;secondary...due to it being a rental car I guess...we'll never know&quot; on the way to &quot;secondary&quot; Chicago says, F'this and takes a hard left turn thru an open gate...no signs saying DO NOT ENTER but we have no idea where it's taking us...we're shitting bricks at this time. It takes us onto the entry to Mexico side but is divided by a K rail (on the left) and the fence (on the right) ...there is no turning around......we keep going until it opens up like a flood gate but up in front of all the traffic. Chicago floors it....me and the other guy continue to look over our shoulder for at least 10 miles waiting for a US Border Patrol vehicle to come screaming up but....it never happened!&nbsp; That was my last visit &quot;by car&quot; to Mexico...Aye Carumba...<img src="https://www.dirtbikeaddicts.com/static/images/smilies/crazy.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":crazy:" title="Crazy&nbsp; &nbsp; :crazy:" data-shortname=":crazy:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="rezrider, post: 12928, member: 79"] Non-bike related story however a border crossing that [B][I]should have[/I][/B] gone bad............. I was workng for a company in Corona that was doing business with an aluminum extruder in Tijuana (east end). I as well as a co-worker were to meet up with a guy from our headquarters in Chicago to make a visit to this facility. We went down there in a rental car..."not to be taken across the border"...Chicago was driving, it's in his name he says, F' it and went across anyways. We got lost immediately drove around town for about an hour when we finally found the street we were looking for. We paid our visit, spent a couple hours there and left...We're in line to cross back into the US, get up to the front and get waved over to "secondary...due to it being a rental car I guess...we'll never know" on the way to "secondary" Chicago says, F'this and takes a hard left turn thru an open gate...no signs saying DO NOT ENTER but we have no idea where it's taking us...we're shitting bricks at this time. It takes us onto the entry to Mexico side but is divided by a K rail (on the left) and the fence (on the right) ...there is no turning around......we keep going until it opens up like a flood gate but up in front of all the traffic. Chicago floors it....me and the other guy continue to look over our shoulder for at least 10 miles waiting for a US Border Patrol vehicle to come screaming up but....it never happened! That was my last visit "by car" to Mexico...Aye Carumba...:crazy: [/QUOTE]

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