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Shawn forgot that he had to renew his driver's license and realized it just this past weekend. It will otherwise expire while we are in Mexico and then he'd have to renew an expired license, which is much more involved.

In California, they take appointments at the DMV. Shawn called, and the earliest appointment he could get was Thursday.

Now we're staying through the weekend so that we can travel through Mexico during the week. We figure maybe it's less crowded. Why we care that it would be less crowded, I don't know, except for the fact that we're just going to the bus station the day we want to leave, buying tickets for the next bus out and heading south. I'm finding that it's as often worse to make advance reservations in Mexico than it is to go in cold. Still, you don't want to run the chance that you won't be able to get seats.

We expect to stay in Tijuana overnight and then head on to Guadalajara so that the bus station experience doesn't have to share the stage with the crossing of the border with tons of luggage experience and any potentially long and drawn-out goodbyes.

Hopefully Shawn will pass the test.