El Centro is located in the So Cal desert bordering AZ and Mexico, and about a 1hr 45min drive to the nearest big city (San Diego).

At the airport now and there is a mini borders, most of the books they have are business books.anyone have any quick suggestions that I could pick up?

The government is in charge of protecting our borders, how is that working out?

:idea: Umh, Christopher, you know Rich's condos sleep several people, and you might want to invite some BiggerPockets compadres for an informal south of the border REI conference.

When have you ever seen me on here campaigning for more spending or more of anything except for border security, enforcing our laws, and protecting us from bad people via defense spending?

My OPINION is that we can pull completely out of the middle east, take the NEXT trillion we will spend over 7 years and spend it on border security and homeland security and be much safer.

This is bordering on religious discussion, which is not allowed on BP.

Devaluation has already occurred in the now-factual doubling of the base currency, though its "formal" effect is staved off by fear in gov'ts outside our borders as well as inside our borders.

And the bordering creek(s) is a known canoeing area with a few rapids.

Probably because he lives in Southern CA, very close to the Mexican border.