August in America, day eleven

Sierra Vista is located just a few miles to north of Mexico. If you’re driving up to Benson or Tucson, you can expect to be stopped by the border police. Please have your papers ready for inspection.

Border patrol check point, 1 mile

Most days, a tethered unmanned blimp hovers over the mountains to the south of Sierra Vista. On some nights, you can see the light of a drone traversing the air above the border.

Sierra Vista is also home to an army base, hence the occasional helicopters and aircraft.

Tomorrow we leave for San Diego, right next to the border with Tijuana.

Have you published a response to this? :

Previously on this day

7 years ago I wrote Navicon

Three lines.

11 years ago I wrote Automatic eagle

I’m going a long way to test this feature.

12 years ago I wrote Commentary

Backing up my position on blog comments with some quotes.

14 years ago I wrote Web 2.0

Everybody’s talking about the new meme on the block: Web 2.0. But what exactly does it mean?

14 years ago I wrote Ligers, Lamarr and Eliza

When I first started reading this National Geographic article about ligers, a creature named in Napoleon Dynamite (it’s probably his favourite animal), I thought it was a parody. When the article began quoting actress Tippi Hedren about ligers and t