Day 25 - San Diego to Tecate, Mexico

Chris took off from the lab today so we decided to head south of the border.  We drove about an hour to the Mexican border and then walked across to Tecate. 

Tecate is a small, quiet border town.  Tecate means place where the water is born and is probably most famous for its "cerveza" - beer.
Before we hit the Beer Garden though we went and visited the plaza and made a few purchases - just to stimulate the Mexican economy a bit.

The next stop was, Our Lady of Guadalupe, a quaint and simple Catholic Church with some beautiful stain glass windows.

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 As we worked up an appetite with our walking we stopped at a little gorditas stand for lunch.  Ron and Chris had the gorditas and I had a chile relleno with calabazitas - squash.

To top off lunch we had some ice cream and then some Mexican candy.  Chris is eating mangos and tamarind.  Ron was less than impressed by the spicy candy.

Finally we arrived at the Cervezería Tecate where we enjoyed the complimentary beverage.Then we took a tour of the factory.  Unfortunately for Ron it was in Spanish. Chris said that she understood 20% and even Ron said that he was able to follow the visuals of the tour. One caution - they told us to try the malt, which was fine but we didn't hear not to try the hops - a small bit of hops will leave an awful taste in your mouth for hours.  Ron says he has sworn off IPAs for months now.

No pictures were allowed on the tour so we can't share any Mexican beer state secrets.

It was back to the good old US and tonight is movie night for us.