San Ysidro

Perhaps the most underrated city in San Diego County, San Ysidro. Home to the most border crossing town other than Tijuana, Baja California. So why all the fuss?
It’s your last stop before you convert your hard earned gringo dollars for pesos. I encourage you do it here before you cross, since the dollar is strong my friend. They have an awesome outlet operating under Las Americas. Go there, you won’t be disappointed and it will save you time visiting others.
They have a trolley station that will take you as close to border as possible, sober or not sober. Take the Blue Line anytime available and you will avoid all the rush and mayhem at the border.
From the outskirts of Del Sol to Beyer Blvd, many moons ago when I had hair, I used to hang out here. SY has always been a second home to me from the South Bay. It’s a small city, yet very necessary and always overlooked at.
The fat: Don’t knock San Ysidro until you try it!
The skinny: Don’t be parking on the street to save money crossing over.

Be warned, if you just came back from TJ, like say 4 in the morning, always obey the traffic lights. The greedy pigs or «police» are all over the place and will pull you over if you «pass» the red light. Like when the traffic light is yellow, it will turn red real fast, so stop IMMEDIATELY when it’s yellow.

Our little border town, the entrance to Mexico and a whole New world. Like Ace says, «Try San Ysidro!» I’ve been here quite a bit as my momma, aunt and a few other family members lived here.
Growing up playing in the streets was safe back in the day. We used to walk to one of the various liquor stores to buy candy and cigs for my aunt. Where my aunt lived it was a tight knit family type of community.
Sadly, things have changed quite a bit. Not just here but everywhere. You may still be able to find a few family type neighborhoods if you look :-) Such great memories of my childhood, San Ysidro will always have a special place in my heart!

sooo, it’s my sister’s graduation party tomorrow, and we’ve been trying to find dresses this whole week. we’re last minute shoppers/​packers/​what have you, so shopping ahead of time isn’t in our vocabulary. for one thing, dress shopping for a specific event is one of the hardest things to do. aaand theeeenn, you have to find heels to match them, sheesh! sometimes, i just loathe the shopping process.
so i bought me a dress the other day at bebe at fashion, and my sister was left. i told her about love culture at the plaza bonita mall, and on our way down south we went. we end up missing it and nearly find ourselves in tj. so, we just go to the outlets here and score, we found a dress at bcbg!!! i was scared to look at the price-​tag, but was pleasantly surprised. originally about 350, but we stole it for 160-​something. i’m totally borrowing it from her one of these days. and three pairs of heels at aldo for 102. something, three point play!!! btw, caught the rest of the lakers game when we got home… bring it on!!! who’s next to kill (i hope it’s the boston celtics, what a ma