I have been picking up shifts lately at the Convention Center - I got lucky and a new client has been taking advantage of off season rates so I've had some unexpected work and have been taking every shift I can. So I'm finally getting around to posting this.......the morning of August 5th I crossed the US/Mexico border once again at Nogales on my way back into the US. This experience was not scary but very strange.....the Customs Officer dispensed with the usual questions and started grilling me about San Diego, a place I've only been to once in my life. And that was only to fly into, and then take a bus downtown to catch a trolley to the border to cross the border at Tijuana to catch a cab to the airport there for a dirt cheap ticket to Guadalajara. I told the Customs Officer all this and said that I never saw the nicer parts of town, only the part going south from downtown to the border on the trolley. Got a strange look and a dismissive hand gesture and I turned around and crossed.
So, no problem, really. I just am wondering why was I grilled about San Diego? I doubt this Officer was intending to just socially chat......Call me cynical but there had to be a reason. Regardless, no visit to secondary and no weapons drawn on me....for an American border crossing these days that scores a 10 in my book so I want to make it clear that I'm not complaining.....I'm really just baffled. Whatever. Rob