Arriving in Mexico

Kevin Ward, Paul Humble and I flew from Los Angeles to Mexico City with what we thought were bags full of things that were going to get us interrogated. 5 cameras, massive amounts of cabling, 3 rolls of duct tape, plastic bags, bags of sheet metal screws, 8 sections of heavy black plastic, a matte knife, screwdrivers, and a fully charged cordless drill.

WE thought that airport security would think we were heading south to kidnap someone … but … no problems, we were welcomed to Mexico!

The first thing that we found out in Mexico City, at the airport, was that Bank of America is more than willing to give you counterfit 100 dollar bills to travel with. At the money exchange, Paul was told one of his 100’s was bogus. Sure enough, after we all looked at it .. it was! No watermark, the paper felt funny, etc. Thanks B of A!

After a bit of walking around to find an open car rental place (the one we had a reservation with was open, but in a different wing of the airport, and we didn’t feel like walking over there at midnight) we landed a brand new Passat for around 750 US for the week with unlimited milage and full insurance. We’d be needing both, for what we were up to!

We had an early morning meeting with Eduardo Leon, so after a bit of getting lost (no nav or map in the car) we pulled over, gave a taxi driver five dollars, and were at our hotel in no time at all.

-Bret Haller