Caught in the proverbial cogs of bureaucracy...

Laredo tx is more like Mexico than it is America. It is a rare
occasion when we find someone here who speaks English. The culture
also follows suit for South of the border where watches are more
jewelry than devices for keeping time. When they tell you ten more
minutes it turns to 24 more hours. Countless times have they told us
everything will be ready in ten minutes.

And now everything is finally ready, but we still don't have the
paperwork. We now have to unload everything, yes everything from the
bus and send that over one bridge. Then we drive the bus empty over
another bridge.

We just tried crossing the border with the bus ourselves to leave the
stuff and then come back through to drive across the other bridge to
import but they told us what we were trying to do was illegal. They
gave us the option of impounding the bus, or returning to the states.
We choose the latter. So now we must find someone with a truck and
trailer to carry our insane amount of things across. Hopefully we will
be able to start this in the morning and all will be done tomorrow....
Ha, it's hard to type that with out laughing.

Patience is being stretched. Beyond belief. Will this every end? Is
someone going to tell us this is all a joke? Please...