Anyone driving up or down the east coast of the US on I-95 knows this place. South of the Border is a classic high camp roadside attraction that started in 1950 -- a good twenty years before I-95 really got going as the highway Voted Most Likely to Host a Serial Killer. I'm usually okay with traveling solo, but this is not a destination I recommend for visiting without company. "High camp" feels pretty freaky-strange after a few hundred miles of divided highway driving. All these outsized concrete animals tracking you with hungry concrete eyes. It's like the song by the Doors, "People are strange/When you're a stranger." But I think you'd be perfectly fine with company. Especially if they will watch your back while you're looking through the view-finder.
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George A.
2/3/2015 07:49:38 am
"Keep whining kids, they'll stop."
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Amy
2/4/2015 03:26:47 am
"No bull!"
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john waters
2/4/2015 03:05:03 am
Campy kitschy fun camps is what the world might be able to use more of right about now. Fun foto set !
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Amy
2/4/2015 03:27:31 am
Glad you enjoyed it!
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