Trippin

well, this has been quite the trip,  id like to go on vaca;;;but I'm doomed to go trippin  !!!!  i picked the wrong route, because i was afraid of the weather.  however, i note it was snowing 10/12/09  in hood river,or.  how about Spokane?  i fought to keep my van running..the alternator finally quite.  i pulled over in lordsburg, NM.  the middle of nowhere..but it had a napa and an electrical shop.   i had already put in a new alt in Tucson AZ. (which wasn't working)!!!  the locals complained bitterly about excessive police presence.  for about800 people..they have 11 local police,   its the county seat,,so the sheriffs office is located there.  they have the state police.  finally they were surrounded by  , the federals,  homeland sec,  borderpolice ,  DEA, FBI!!   There is a roadblock on I 10.  ARE YOU A US CITIZEN ???  insulting!  i stopped in a small town, a local pointed out the border  at first i couldnt see it..  then i realized that the long red train (seemed to go on forever)  was in fact the concrete barrier;  much like hwy divider-but 20 ft high  .  he no longer crossed over..  i myself got the treatment...   the town is rotting,their must be 6 motels closed..  its almost like the police et al. are chasing the last dollar---half the houses were abandoned..  for them-the only way out of Town is their thumb or a coffin...on the other hand the cartels are now killing and kidnapping on our side of the border.  i left I 10 at van horn tX and headed south for Del Rio, TX on st rt 90.  at marfa, TX  i stopped to mail a letter..  actually, their were about 4 bikes  ,college type,  a sure sign of yuppies  their we weren't any Hispanics around and the town was prospering.  it was part of a hotel complex ..i asked how much for a rm---145$/nite...i had pd 26$ the nite before queen bed etc  stunning!!  50 mi north??   my first wasp town..of course the local sheriff had to ck out my USS minnow..  10 ft and floats (almost) behind my van.  people don't know what to make of me?  i  haft to laugh  my passport is a clean drivers lic and a college ed.  don't forget--- tail lites, lic plate etc---any excuse will do!   i left for marathon, tx.  strange things started to happen--i saw a blimp in the sky.  first, i thought it was free-then it disappeared  later it reappeared--i was relieved.  it was tethered it is only a spy drone..  WHO DO u think its collecting info on?  HUH!!  on both sides of the rd.  a lane of gravel--one side is some kind of fiber optic cable, which requires some kind of relay/power station--funny they always come in twos..  more later...dad