"Pedro's" truck stop

Come on driver cut them some slack they are in the process of updating that place and durin the summer it's not a bad place to stop as to get out the truck and walk around and belive it or not during the summer there are other people doing the same lol. The food being bad is no excuse though I will give you that.

 

"South of the Border" Rated the number one cheesiest tourist attraction in the US 10 straight years. I remember as a kid stopping there when we would drive to Florida in the late 60's and early 70's. It was a dump then and a dump now, and that was before I-95 was built, you would think after all these years they would have done some capital improvements.

 

One of their billboards used to say something like, "World's Biggest Tourist Trap". LOL

Now I can respect a place that tells the truth.

 

Thats not half as cool as the worlds largest prairie dog And when I say cool I really mean lame!

 

hmmm, his screen name is Kansas, he's in KS and so is the worlds largest praire dog, is he trying to drum up business in a backwards kinda way.

 

I thought Wall Drug was the Biggest Tourist Trap.

 

Ive always just drove a few extra miles to the Loves, that place seems to cheesy

 

Oh, yes; I remember stopping by South of the Border (that's the official name of the facility) and one of the statues [and their mascot] there is called Pedro; when I was growing up in the Washington, DC area. My parents would take me there when we were headed to Florida on vacations. Now with my parents passed on, I still stop there when I head to Florida. Yes, it's a dump and yes it seems that it's about ready to go out of business but that's the charm of the place.

This has got me thinking and I will see if they have a website. Those South of the Border signs you see so many miles from the actual facility are a throw back to the "Burma Shave" road sign advertisment era.

With the increase of the Hispanic population in the Eastern US, I am beginning to think that some people would view this tourist facility to be politically incorrect.

Yep, just checked ...

it's South of the Border (dot) com for the website. They have been around since 1949 and there is now the third generation of the family that runs the place.