idea. you know? and apparently the following year, 1933, the exact same thing was proposed between big bend, and its sister park in mexico. and it's been proposed again a couple years later and proposed again and i guess it's still just a work in progress. >> but it is a work in progress. meaning, we obviously still want it to be a park on the u.s. side and the mexicans still want it to be a park on their side. so if it didn't officially become a park, how did what we have become what it is? >> it's an agreement. it's a handshake. it's not formal. so i guess our geologists aren't cooperating with their geologists financially. they have, a little town there. it's an amazingly charming mexican village that is so far away from the -- the stuff that you hear on tv about, you know, sort of danger around the border and everything else. it's impossibly adorable, and a