[mx-rider]

Gotta Peso – that’s a character I had forgotten about. I only saw him a few times and we’d give him our change each time we saw him. I do remember the last time (maybe 10 years ago) we saw him, we were returning from Bahia de Los Angeles. It was the first and only real conversation I had with him and recall asking him his name 3 times; the first time he didn’t answer and the second time he gave us 2 different answers.

Asking him again he then asked me if I was with the FBI, making me wonder if he was simply hiding out in Mexico?

He seemed a bit apprehensive so my wife asked him if he had family back in the states that could help him and he said that he came from a wealthy family but they disowned him when he left home and took to the road when he was young. He then opened up a bit more and told us about some famous people he worked for in his life and something about Elvis and his plane, but it’s been so long ago I can’t remember exactly what anymore.

I do remember we gave him all of the pesos we had left on us and shared a good laugh about the guy on the rest of our trip home.