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[ICClear]

Hello everyone,

A little about myself, I'm a native of Tijuana, born in the early fifties....very early fifties, but like one of my son says "my mom is like a vato", I think he meant I can still drive young and keep up with technology!

I work in Chula Vista and sadly lost my Sentri pass due to a family member's stupidity but let bygones be byones, what I am wondering now are a couple of things...first, how do some people get their cars taken to the border and they just come later and hop in and wait only a few cars worth!, secondly, the Scooter idea keeps roaming in my head but its out of my budget for now, however, wouldn't it be cool if some of the motorcycle riders that have big Harleys or Hondas offer some sort of carpool?, or would it be cyclepool?

I apologize if this posting should have gone in another thread and to all the people planning on moving to TJ you just have to figure out how to take advantage of the best of both worlds, I enjoy things like going to the gas station and getting the full service for a small tip, having someone come in and clean house for less than 25 dollars if you need it, when the kids were little I even enrolled them in school in Tijuana and later in San Diego, that way they became truly bilingual.....just have to pick and choose what you really want.

I'm glad to have found this site!

Thanks

[Buen Amigo]

Welcome to the board. About your situation. That sucks. Before i had a sentri pass i would just line up like anyone else. I don't think youcan take your car and just leave it there. But without the sentri pass i would line up like at about 3:30am. Other than that i don't know.

[HK70]

I crossed in my car today via Sentri. Took way too much time at 35 minutes There was a guy that passed me on a motorcycle while I was waiting in line. Down by the Sentri taxi drop off point he had pulled over and picked up a nice looking chica to cross the border.

[ICClear]

I crossed in my car today via Sentri. Took way too much time at 35 minutes There was a guy that passed me on a motorcycle while I was waiting in line. Down by the Sentri taxi drop off point he had pulled over and picked up a nice looking chica to cross the border.

Dang! too bad I was a good looking chica when border crossing was not such an issue!

35 minutes seems like a dream actually but I get you!, the 3 years I had Sentri 35 minutes seemed like a lot!

I'm glad to have found this blog!

[eclipse]

Just curious, but what sort of stupid thing does a family member have to do to get your pass taken?

[otayBill]

...I'm a native of Tijuana, born in the early fifties....very early fifties...

Hello ICClear,

I imagine Tijuana has changed a lot.

[ICClear]

Just curious, but what sort of stupid thing does a family member have to do to get your pass taken?

Anything!, a misdemeanor and up!

[ICClear]

Hello ICClear,

I imagine Tijuana has changed a lot.

It sure has!, now the paved streets don't end at the Race Track!, there was pavement from Calle Segunda all the way to the Race Track back in the decade when I was born.
Movie stars used to come here on weekends for the horses and the bullfights, gringos would tip us kids for watching their cars parked outside our house (I lived right by the old bull ring in the 60"s) and we "watched" their cars all right!, not for security but for the beauty of them!

I was born in the Centro area a block from "La ocho" but back then when we misbehaved my grandma took us to the jail and they would put us in a cell for a couple hours to teach us a lesson......hard to believe huh?, the Fire Station was run by volunteers and when the sirens went off we would run to see the firemen running into the station and out in the fire trucks. It definitely has changed, but then that's progress.

[ICClear]

Welcome to the board. About your situation. That sucks. Before i had a sentri pass i would just line up like anyone else. I don't think youcan take your car and just leave it there. But without the sentri pass i would line up like at about 3:30am. Other than that i don't know.

Well it turns out I don't have to worry about the lengthy wait anymore.....just got laid off after 15 years with the company!

[Klort]

It sure has!, now the paved streets don't end at the Race Track!, there was pavement from Calle Segunda all the way to the Race Track back in the decade when I was born.
Movie stars used to come here on weekends for the horses and the bullfights, gringos would tip us kids for watching their cars parked outside our house (I lived right by the old bull ring in the 60"s) and we "watched" their cars all right!, not for security but for the beauty of them!

I was born in the Centro area a block from "La ocho" but back then when we misbehaved my grandma took us to the jail and they would put us in a cell for a couple hours to teach us a lesson......hard to believe huh?, the Fire Station was run by volunteers and when the sirens went off we would run to see the firemen running into the station and out in the fire trucks. It definitely has changed, but then that's progress.

Ha ha ha, I love hearing things like that.. often wondered what it was like in Tijuana back in the 1950's! It is fascinating. I used to go down there all the time in the early 1980's.

[ICClear]

Ha ha ha, I love hearing things like that.. often wondered what it was like in Tijuana back in the 1950's! It is fascinating. I used to go down there all the time in the early 1980's.

I'm so happy to hear someone likes those stories, if you are familiar with Tijuana then you know where the original Palacio Municipal was.... on Calle Segunda,its a sort of museum now I think, will have to check it out now that I am no longer working outside the home.

Anyway, that Palacio Municipal housed not only the city government but also the Red Cross, my grandmother came to Tijuana for a job in the original Red Cross during WWII, one of the exciting things I remember was when an American delegation came and donated a brand new ambulance, one of the English speaking men picked me up (very young then) and let me inside this brand new ambulance (new to us anyway) it was all I could stand!, steering the wheel, playing with the siren and of course watching my older sister turn green with envy! to this day I have a sense of responsibility to the Red Cross, Mexican or American, I guess a lesson was learned while I was playing inside that ambulance.

The only words I knew in English then was guanguei, our version of "one way" that we would scream to Americans who always took a wrong turn on Calle Ocho where I lived then; thankfully my English vocabulary has grown since!

[Klort]

Guanguei.. that is funny! I do remember being in the back seat of a huge station wagon and my grandmother would scream at the Americans going the wrong way on the streets in El Centro. That was in the late 1970's.