The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the fourth-busiest land border crossing in the world, the second-busiest excluding the crossings between mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong. The busiest land border crossing not counting China and its SARs is Woodlands Checkpoint/Sultan Iskandar Building crossing between Singapore and Malaysia). The border crossing at San Ysidro accommodated 15,845,661 cars entering the US from Mexico in 2023, a 3.2 percent increase from 2022. San Ysidro also accommodated 17.4 percent of incoming pedestrian crossings from Mexico in 2023, a 2.5 percent increase from 2022. Ensenada means cove, and was shortened from Ensenada de Todos Santos! You didn't see it since you stuck to the Pacific coast, but if you travelled east towards the Gulf of California, you would've seen the northern bit of the Gulf where the Vaquita is found! The Vaquita is a porpoise, the world's smallest cetacean (measuring 5 feet long on average) that has been critically endangered due to bycatch in gillnets from shrimp and illegal totoaba fishing (totoaba is a fish also endemic to the Gulf of California). Vaquita means "little cow" because of the dark rings around its eyes and the dark patches around its lips, which give it a bovine appearance. Ceviche is supposed to be seafood, not beef! Ceviche originated from Peru, consisting of fish or shellfish marinated in citrus and seasonings, and is recognized by UNESCO as an expression of Peruvian traditional cuisine and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Latin American countries have different versions of ceviche. In Mexico, it is served with tostadas. In Puerto Rico and other places in the Caribbean, the dish is prepared with coconut milk.
OXXO across from another OXXO is the same energy as Dunkin' in Boston. You can ride San Diego Trolley rolling stock in Mendoza, Argentina! The Metrotranvía Mendoza opened in 2012, and it has used former San Diego Siemens-Duewag U2s since opening as well as Siemens SD-100s that San Diego also sent in 2022. The name Tijuana comes from the name of a ranch, Rancho Tía Juana, established in 1829 by Santiago Argüello Moraga. Historians believe it comes from the word Tiwan ("by the sea") in the language of the Kumeyaay, the First Nations people of the San Diego-Tijuana region. And yeah, it's true, the Caesar salad was created in Tijuana and has nothing to do with the Roman emperor! It was created by a guy named Caesar/Cesare Cardini, an Italian immigrant originally born in Baverno, Piedmont with seven siblings. While his sisters Bonifacio and Annibale stayed in Italy, three brothers emigrated to North America. Nereo opened a small hotel near the casino in Santa Cruz, California. Alessandro and Gaudenzio eventually were in the restaurant business in Mexico City, and Alessandro became Cesare's partner in Tijuana. Cesare sailed to NY in 1913 on the RMS Olympic, boarded a train to Montreal, returned to Italy, came back to the US in 1919, opened a restaurant in Sacramento, moved to San Diego, and decided to open a restaurant (first of several) called Caesar's in Tijuana. As mentioned, he owned a restaurant that attracted Americans circumventing Prohibition. According to an interview with his daughter Rosa, on July 4, 1924, they came in such numbers that Caesar "simply wasn't prepared for that many people" and he improvised by making the salad "to give the dinner guests a show as well as a meal", putting together the ingredients in the middle of the dining room. It then became fashionable among celebrities, especially after the restaurant moved to a larger building so it could have a hotel, as people wanted to stay the night. After Prohibition ended and President Lázaro Cárdenas was against casinos, tourism in Tijuana fell off, and Cardini quit his Mexican business and moved back to San Diego. He moved to Los Angeles in 1938, focused on production and marketing his salad dressing before he passed in 1956.
To be fair, they posted an old video of the same topic, but they removed it and chose to remake it into this since their editing improved greatly since that time
Buffalo's Metrorail Light Rail should seriously be extended to the Canadian Border/Niagara River with stops at the Rainbow Bridge Customs Plaza and the Niagara Falls NY Amtrak Station (please add a pedestrian walkway to Whirlpool Bridge, it's pretty useless as a NEXUS passenger car and train only bridge). Actually, the two lane Whirlpool road bridge would be great converted to pedestrians/cyclists, being just a block away from Niagara Falls GO/VIA station which has hourly GO buses and at least three return GO trains to Burlington/Toronto. Rainbow Bridge is a bit more inconvenient to get to for pedestrians because it's not closely served by the local public transport agency Niagara Region Transit but by WEGO, which is a pass-only tourist-oriented shuttle service.
I used to go to ensenada ob my motorcycle, & take the bus, until I moved out of San Diego, & I do it when I can. The only issue now is Mexico CBP make you fill out a visa, & is slow getting across on the weekend, & getting back, it took 4 hours standing in line. Yes 4 hours, nit exaggerating. Never going there & back on a Sunday again!
Another very nice Mexican bus route is Puebla to Oaxaca, more specifically the section south of Tehuacan... Some fantastic canyons, as if the landscape had been created for a Hollywood cowboy film. I was totally unprepared for it and couldn't stop humming Enio Morricone film soundtracks as we progressed along the road.
when i was in the Navy and stationed at 32nd street naval base the Blue line was a staple for me. i just wish they would open the pedestrian gate next to the trolley stop for base access to dry side, it was a long and circuitous route to leave the base through the vehicle gate to get to the stop.
I still dont understand how Tijuana doesn't have light rail or metro.. Its supposed to be the 4th most important city after Mexico city, Monterrey, Guadalajara. The state doesn't even do a project or studies, and the federal government doesn't even care to propose 💀
can you ask your friends something for me. I have dated people who are Mexican and had a lot of the foods you had with your friend that he was describing. When I go to an american Mexican restaurant and get those same things. They all literally taste the same. No matter where I go. What do the restaurants here do differently that takes the unique flavor away?
Please do not pronounce San Luis Obispo with accents, as he did here, unless you are fine sounding like a tourist, in which case, carry on. The locals however, just say San Luis(like Louis) or SLO.
By population, it is. In the 2020 census: Mexico City had a population of 9,209,944. Tijuana had 1,810,645 Ecatepec had 1,643,623 Those are the top three. Puebla was fifth with 1,542,232. Guadalajara was 8th with 1,385,621. Monterrey was 9th with 1,142,952
The San Ysidro Port of Entry is the fourth-busiest land border crossing in the world, the second-busiest excluding the crossings between mainland China, Macau, and Hong Kong. The busiest land border crossing not counting China and its SARs is Woodlands Checkpoint/Sultan Iskandar Building crossing between Singapore and Malaysia). The border crossing at San Ysidro accommodated 15,845,661 cars entering the US from Mexico in 2023, a 3.2 percent increase from 2022. San Ysidro also accommodated 17.4 percent of incoming pedestrian crossings from Mexico in 2023, a 2.5 percent increase from 2022. Ensenada means cove, and was shortened from Ensenada de Todos Santos! You didn't see it since you stuck to the Pacific coast, but if you travelled east towards the Gulf of California, you would've seen the northern bit of the Gulf where the Vaquita is found! The Vaquita is a porpoise, the world's smallest cetacean (measuring 5 feet long on average) that has been critically endangered due to bycatch in gillnets from shrimp and illegal totoaba fishing (totoaba is a fish also endemic to the Gulf of California). Vaquita means "little cow" because of the dark rings around its eyes and the dark patches around its lips, which give it a bovine appearance.
Ceviche is supposed to be seafood, not beef! Ceviche originated from Peru, consisting of fish or shellfish marinated in citrus and seasonings, and is recognized by UNESCO as an expression of Peruvian traditional cuisine and Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Latin American countries have different versions of ceviche. In Mexico, it is served with tostadas. In Puerto Rico and other places in the Caribbean, the dish is prepared with coconut milk.
I had this good ceviche that was made out of snook in Puerto Rico. Does not even hold up to other ceviche’s
OXXO across from another OXXO is the same energy as Dunkin' in Boston. You can ride San Diego Trolley rolling stock in Mendoza, Argentina! The Metrotranvía Mendoza opened in 2012, and it has used former San Diego Siemens-Duewag U2s since opening as well as Siemens SD-100s that San Diego also sent in 2022. The name Tijuana comes from the name of a ranch, Rancho Tía Juana, established in 1829 by Santiago Argüello Moraga. Historians believe it comes from the word Tiwan ("by the sea") in the language of the Kumeyaay, the First Nations people of the San Diego-Tijuana region. And yeah, it's true, the Caesar salad was created in Tijuana and has nothing to do with the Roman emperor! It was created by a guy named Caesar/Cesare Cardini, an Italian immigrant originally born in Baverno, Piedmont with seven siblings. While his sisters Bonifacio and Annibale stayed in Italy, three brothers emigrated to North America. Nereo opened a small hotel near the casino in Santa Cruz, California. Alessandro and Gaudenzio eventually were in the restaurant business in Mexico City, and Alessandro became Cesare's partner in Tijuana. Cesare sailed to NY in 1913 on the RMS Olympic, boarded a train to Montreal, returned to Italy, came back to the US in 1919, opened a restaurant in Sacramento, moved to San Diego, and decided to open a restaurant (first of several) called Caesar's in Tijuana.
As mentioned, he owned a restaurant that attracted Americans circumventing Prohibition. According to an interview with his daughter Rosa, on July 4, 1924, they came in such numbers that Caesar "simply wasn't prepared for that many people" and he improvised by making the salad "to give the dinner guests a show as well as a meal", putting together the ingredients in the middle of the dining room. It then became fashionable among celebrities, especially after the restaurant moved to a larger building so it could have a hotel, as people wanted to stay the night. After Prohibition ended and President Lázaro Cárdenas was against casinos, tourism in Tijuana fell off, and Cardini quit his Mexican business and moved back to San Diego. He moved to Los Angeles in 1938, focused on production and marketing his salad dressing before he passed in 1956.
@@AverytheCubanAmerican Dear AverytheCubanAmerican, Besides that and the Tiajuana Easy Divorce Laws, what else was Tiajuana famous for?
Tijuana has BRT also
how did you meet the Mexican friends you were with?
@@sammymarrco2 college! They were part of the same friend group as me and my wife
Awesome video! All of that food looked amazing!
Dude shot a video in 2021 and released it in 2024. The Whale has a longer turn around on content than Miles.
To be fair, they posted an old video of the same topic, but they removed it and chose to remake it into this since their editing improved greatly since that time
Nautical Miles in Transit.
That video is amazing! I definitely hope to visit Mexico one day, especially since I love Mexican food!
2:05 This is such good advice! Thank you for saying it, Caleb.
Buffalo's Metrorail Light Rail should seriously be extended to the Canadian Border/Niagara River with stops at the Rainbow Bridge Customs Plaza and the Niagara Falls NY Amtrak Station (please add a pedestrian walkway to Whirlpool Bridge, it's pretty useless as a NEXUS passenger car and train only bridge). Actually, the two lane Whirlpool road bridge would be great converted to pedestrians/cyclists, being just a block away from Niagara Falls GO/VIA station which has hourly GO buses and at least three return GO trains to Burlington/Toronto. Rainbow Bridge is a bit more inconvenient to get to for pedestrians because it's not closely served by the local public transport agency Niagara Region Transit but by WEGO, which is a pass-only tourist-oriented shuttle service.
Caleb learned the hard way that WEGO only accepts passes (because * Caleb didn't do his research *)
I used to go to ensenada ob my motorcycle, & take the bus, until I moved out of San Diego, & I do it when I can.
The only issue now is Mexico CBP make you fill out a visa, & is slow getting across on the weekend, & getting back, it took 4 hours standing in line. Yes 4 hours, nit exaggerating. Never going there & back on a Sunday again!
Good job TH-cam for giving me the premier notification right after the premier ended
3:36 note you can talk the first trolley on select hollidays on the san diego silver line, or a first gen trolley at the perris train museum
Another very nice Mexican bus route is Puebla to Oaxaca, more specifically the section south of Tehuacan... Some fantastic canyons, as if the landscape had been created for a Hollywood cowboy film. I was totally unprepared for it and couldn't stop humming Enio Morricone film soundtracks as we progressed along the road.
Seeing the first footage you shot while I guided you in Frankfurt :)
looks like you had a nice trip, hopefully you can bring your wife to mexico soon to meet your friends
She's met them both! We all know each other through school.
@@ClassyWhale you planning to come down under to try the Sydney metro and the future Auckland city rail link
I wish the US would adopt that Excess Calories etc labels for our junk food, but nope....
Woohoo, go, San Diego! Great video, thank you.
Why didn’t Seattle have something with Vancouver or Detroit?
white guy here ceviche normally is fished cooked in acid not beef
when i was in the Navy and stationed at 32nd street naval base the Blue line was a staple for me. i just wish they would open the pedestrian gate next to the trolley stop for base access to dry side, it was a long and circuitous route to leave the base through the vehicle gate to get to the stop.
Guess you could say the same thing about Dunkin's in Boston, or Wawa's on the main line
The business model of oxxo is the same as Tim hortons
Think they often have technical issues; I bought an ABC ticket online and it just never got emailed to me.
I still dont understand how Tijuana doesn't have light rail or metro..
Its supposed to be the 4th most important city after Mexico city, Monterrey, Guadalajara.
The state doesn't even do a project or studies, and the federal government doesn't even care to propose 💀
The worst thing is that Tijuana has a lot of car center projects.
I was about to ask how the San Diego Red Line got it's "Trolley" name... then I saw the original stock did have trolley poles😎
Those were added later for the museum's infrastructure
Maybe there will be times when light rail will be able to cross the border.
can you ask your friends something for me. I have dated people who are Mexican and had a lot of the foods you had with your friend that he was describing. When I go to an american Mexican restaurant and get those same things. They all literally taste the same. No matter where I go. What do the restaurants here do differently that takes the unique flavor away?
I live in San Diego
I mean.... Canada exists, and trains actually cross the border.
That's Amtrak, not rapid rail transit
Noel Phillips =)
12:23 Caleb Didn't Do His Research
Please do not pronounce San Luis Obispo with accents, as he did here, unless you are fine sounding like a tourist, in which case, carry on. The locals however, just say San Luis(like Louis) or SLO.
You may like that beach in Mexico but for me, give me good old Coney Island Beach in Brooklyn, New York City!
Tijuana is not the second blargest city in México by far. Monterrey, Guadalajara and Puebla are larger.
By population, it is. In the 2020 census:
Mexico City had a population of 9,209,944.
Tijuana had 1,810,645
Ecatepec had 1,643,623
Those are the top three. Puebla was fifth with 1,542,232. Guadalajara was 8th with 1,385,621. Monterrey was 9th with 1,142,952