JohnnyBoy
Mar 24, 2010, 2:04 PM
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I hope it is OK to reply to your post even though I am not Brian.
I have not crossed at Nogales recently but I know people who have. Several American and Canadian expats around here report much longer waits at the Mariposa crossing. I have no information about the downtown, DeConcini crossing. I avoid it because of the danger involved in traversing Nogales, Sonora from the south to get there.
Apparently something is going on with trucking and I have been told that trucks have recently blocked the road near the toll booths about five miles south of the border. The delays reported were up to three and a half hours. Some people seem to know a way through town (once again, through Nogales, Sonora) over to the Mariposa crossing that avoids that last stretch of toll road. It apparently dumps you into the road somewhere near the crossing. I would rather wait three hours for the trucks to get out of the way than drive through Nogales, Sonora.
My neighbor lady and her teenaged son recently went that way. Hubby Neighbor told me she had no problems and no significant delay at Mariposa. Apparently the delays are spotty and occasional.
They say the best day to cross at Mariposa going north is Sunday. Everyone is saying that every day closer to Holy Week and Easter, the worse it will get, in both directions, and will stay that way for up to week after Easter.
I had important mail waiting (tax stuff) at my mail box in Tucson and preferred to pay $150 to have it UPS'd to me (had to do it twice...duh), rather than go up there right now. My decision was based primarily on an economic analysis. But there have been rumors and I get bad vibes right now about going up there. Nothing factual or real to base it on. Just nerves and hunches that really only matter to me.
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