When you walk across the border from San Ysidro, California to Tijuana, Baja California, there is an expansive, welcoming plaza full of vendors of all sorts. Food, toys, rubber jigsaw puzzles of the digestive system.
The first trinkety souvenir I beelined was a funny-looking marionette with its tongue popping out. On closer inspection...Lisa Simpson! I was sold, but I told myself I would hold off, and I continued across the bridge over the Tijuana River to the main tourist shopping area.
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