Boquillas Del Carmen

The Boquillas Crossing Port of Entry opened for the weekend Friday morning. Bill and I were eager to explore a little slice of Mexico made available to us from Big Bend's border. We loaded up on water and small bills and parked our van in BIBE's desert heat. Humidity was up today and it felt particularly hot.

Once through immigration, we walked to the river bank and were greeted by a Mexican in a row boat. The man walked the boat, with us in it, across the river to Boquillas Del Carmen. Hah! We paid $5 round trip for the boat and $5 for the donkey ride to town and back.

As expected, we saw lots of crafts for sale, little kids greeting us with goods, dogs running about and an old run-down town. After a stroll through the village with our donkey handler, Evan, we stopped for a refreshing margarita. Falcon's, the other restaurant in town, was recommended for lunch.

It was a fun little adventure, but super hot. It took us, and the van, all afternoon to cool down. At sunset, we finally saw rain for only the second time since leaving Florida.