TROUBLE AT THE BORDER

Nov 17 - 5130 miles: Final 300 miles to border. We pack up after the awards dinner. Check out and manage to palm off our spare wheels and box of spares onto Rachels Lotus. It will all arrive in LA one day...... We load the bust engine into the passenger seat and put it all onto Javies trailer. Drive the 300 miles up to Neuvo Laredo. Give away all our last pesos to Javie, join the queue for bridge 2 and wait. An hour later we find out that we need 25 pesos to cross over ( but give away a signed photo-card of the car instead) and then are told that everyone must be in the car with the luggage...or if not to join the foot passengers on bridge 1 ( 2 miles away) Given that the spare engine is now inside the 2-seater we manage to put all the cases on the roof and Conrad/Joe hang onto the doors as we cross into America. The car is left in a hotel carpark ready to be picked up to go back toLA. We struggle for 40 mins to find a taxi to get us through Laredo and finally catch the flight in Laredo with 5 mins tpo spare.... and fly back to find Annie and the boys at Gatwick.

PS A HUGE THANKS TO JOE AND JAVIE FOR GETTING US TO THE END!!