Trip report to USA and back

by Intercasa Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:36 pm

In case anybody cares or wants to know....

Flew out of GDL and entered the good old USA at Dallas, long lines for immigration, flew American and they arrived late (my booking showed 70% on time record and I am now part off the adverse statistic). Dallas has a nice airport but they really lack when arriving internationally as there were perhaps 3 agents servicing the US citizen line and we queued up wrapping around many times and the foreigners didn't have it any easier. Almost missed my flight to Des Moines.

Good old Iowa, wow, haven't been there in 18 years. People at Walmart are something out of the funny web sites and it took so much restraint to not take pictures of them. I felt like the only one with no tattoes, not dippin and without an article of clothing that was camo. West Des Moines is sort of normal, but when you go where I went, to Knoxville, well it is a small town. Did spend some time at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame as well as saw lots of antique farm stuff on the farms.

It was nice to go shooting although my shoulder is a nice dark purple as I haven't shot shotguns that much in a while, also was fun to sit in a chair in front of the house and just shoot for hours.

Cool to be able to target practice and shoot guns you could never shoot here. Everybody drives a new pickup truck and is armed but are not narcos, something different from here, at first I saw a new truck driving at night and thought twice!

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Trip report to USA and back 260115_10152139683780204_74173471_n

The flight back from Dallas that arrives at 4.30pm or so is great as there are no other flights so customs and immigration was very fast, the opposite of leaving Mexico.

I bought a souvenir T sgirt from a gas station, called Kum and Go, I guess us visitors think it is funny but to Iowans it is normal.