{"id":1522,"date":"2020-11-26T18:46:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/?p=1522"},"modified":"2022-12-29T19:36:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T19:36:19","slug":"south-of-the-border-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/south-of-the-border-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"South of the Border at Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

South of the Border<\/strong>\u00a0is a roadside attraction that needs no introduction. I’ve written about it before:\u00a0South of the Border, the Quintessential Roadside Attraction<\/a> \u00a0(if you do need an introduction).<\/p>\n

I visited the attraction twice in December of 2019 — once during the day (12\/3), and once at night (12\/10). During the day, all the shops & restaurants are open for business. At night, the shops are closed & the place becomes a neon ghost town.<\/p>\n

I didn’t plan on visiting South of the Border at night, but when I passed it — all lit up like a bowl of electric candy — I could not resist. How often do you get to explore a tourist attraction when you’re the only tourist? Rare. I stopped, walked around, it was worth it.<\/p>\n

I saw one other guy, and we were both taking photos of the giant Pedro statue:<\/p>\n

\"Pedro<\/p>\n

The Hot Tamale restaurant & “hot dog” statue:<\/p>\n

\"Hot<\/p>\n

Fort Pedro Fireworks store:<\/p>\n

\"Fort<\/p>\n

Pedro’s Pantry convenience store:<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Ice Cream shop with Christmas Tree:<\/p>\n

\"Ice<\/p>\n

Giant neon sombrero tower:<\/p>\n

\"South<\/p>\n

“Never Fart” (Josh) sticker on a dumpster:<\/p>\n

\"Never<\/p>\n

The big, colorful neon South of the Border sign visible from the highway:<\/p>\n

\"South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South of the Border\u00a0is a roadside attraction that needs no introduction. I’ve written about it before:\u00a0South of the Border, the Quintessential Roadside Attraction \u00a0(if you do need an introduction). I visited the attraction twice in December of 2019 — once …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[78,101,100,46],"class_list":["post-1522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-roadside-attractions","tag-78","tag-giants","tag-neon","tag-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dancentury.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}