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Well Spring Break was reported to be very slow 50-70% vs previous years. For Semana Santa thr Lukeville Border wait is 1/2 mile on Friday at 1:30PM, Shorter lines at Calexico and San Luis entering Mexico. My Cholla Neighbor was in Penasco Thurs and Friday and said the traffic was light for...

If Semana Santa is also slow, the real estate investors and owners who rent will not be happy. I was at my local dentist and he said business slowed last year to 60% of what it was in 2022 and is still slow. A guy who owns 3 rentals in Cholla has had only a total of 7 days total rented since the...

Seems to have been another shoot-out in Sonoyta earlier today, person posted on FB who posts regularly. If this stuff keeps happening, our little beach town will suffer mucho. Posted at 9AM Tuesday "We just crossed the border with the agent telling us that there has been shooting in Sonoyta...

Hola Vecino, Sorry to hear about the break-in, We had our last break-in in 2013, (in 30 years been broken in 4 times), similar MO, my local friend was walking by my house to fish the rocks near my place on Pinto Point and noticed a 12x18in bath window broken out. He had a key and went inside...

I went thru Sonoyta on Thurs Jan 18th, everything was quiet, lot's of places were closed at 3:30 PM, my son went thru on Sunday at 6PM most everything was closed. I came back on Thursday at 1PM more things were open and no issues other than I didn't see 1 police car, that never happens. The...

Good news, the on-line portal to pay the property taxes is up and running. Which means you can also go pay in person, My taxes in Cholla actually went DOWN 32% from last year, after going up 850% in 2023. FYI, they moved the tax office back into the City building on the corner of Freemont...

News just reported that Pres Biden officials announced the Lukeville and other crossings will reopen Thurs, Jan 4th.

Here's another video. https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2023/12/30/reportan-enfrentamiento-entre-hombres-armados-en-sonoyta-sonora-hay-quema-de-vehiculos/?fbclid=IwAR1XUj1ZQ8BMyi1srTLd604-ZvI3n-G5zRM9UAH014mdDu7EA7nBxnaH9XQ

And then we have this in Sonoyta on Friday Dec 29th. https://www.infobae.com/mexico/2023/12/30/reportan-enfrentamiento-entre-hombres-armados-en-sonoyta-sonora-hay-quema-de-vehiculos/?fbclid=IwAR1XUj1ZQ8BMyi1srTLd604-ZvI3n-G5zRM9UAH014mdDu7EA7nBxnaH9XQ

The Lukeville/Sonoyta construction needs to be finished before it could re-open.

On the Mexican side of the entry, they are re-doing the Inspection area and canopy also both sides of the road going north and south are currently dirt. I am guessing that when that is all done the Lukeville entry will re-open. Good time to do all of that since it's the slow season, but when...

I've seen the line 5+ miles long going in both directions many times on busy holiday's. That's why I only go 1-2 days before and after on those weekends.

San Felipe is so much cleaner than Peñasco, I think people actually put their trash in garbage cans.

At the Banjacito bank Atm next to the boat yards is a great place to get Pesos. When the peso was 18-1, 3 weeks ago I got 17.95-1, the atm fee was 18.55. (with a Capitol 1 debit account) Best place to get Pesos these days. The Citibanamex atms in town haven't been working for 6 weeks now. All...

More to this story, Volvo is owned by Geely a Chinese company, but Volvo cars for the Asian market are assembled in China. Volvo's sold here and in Europe are assembled in Sweden and now their SUV's in assembled the US. Ford motor owned Volvo for a decade before selling it off to the Chinese...