Student's spring break adventure

By Emily Schulte

ees88@txstate.edu

Lucas Newman, a 21 year old journalism major from Austin, Texas, hadn’t anticipated the way his 2018 spring break trip would begin. 

Newman is a frequent traveler who enjoys adventure, so he and his friend, Christian Castro, had plans to catch a bus from Austin to Mexico City. There, they would spend two nights in an Airbnb and fly to Cancun. “We wanted to save some money by buying airfare from Mexico instead of the United States,” Newman said. 

The 24-hour bus ride included a stop in Laredo, Texas to change buses, but Newman and Castro missed their bus and had to cross the border to take a bus from Nuevo Laredo in Mexico instead. “Nuevo Laredo was scary. There were guys driving around in trucks with automatic weapons at 2 a.m., and we had to pay them a $200 cash bribe to keep walking,” Newman said. 

After making it safely to their Airbnb in Mexico City, Newman and Castro unpacked and headed over to a local bar to relax after their day of traveling. 

“Even though we had some bad times, we still got to see a lot and have a lot of new experiences great experiences, so that’s why it was a good trip,” said Newman.