And the beckoning lights of Matamoros, Mexico, where booze is cheap and the drinking age 18, glimmer less than an hour away. And so they come, year after year. To shake the Oklahoma snow and the Arkansas rain from their bones, to forget about that failed midterm or soured relationship. To remind themselves they're still young. Or better yet, don't.
Spring Break is all about the anti-academic.
These kids cram themselves five-deep into all 4,000 of the island's rentable bedrooms. They pitch tents on the waterside, out where the hotels and high-rises taper into a sandy wasteland. And if Mom could see it, she'd have a fit.