America Plaza Campeche

Leider ging unser Flug nach Las Vegas von Laredo, Texas aus und nicht von Monterrey...
Deshalb hieß es gleich nach der Präsentation in Intercultural ab ins Taxi und geradeaus zum Busbahnhof. Von dort aus dann mit dem Bus über die Grenze, eine Nacht in nem Motel pennen und dann endlich mit dem Flieger nach Las Vegas.

... médicos, ópticos y sobre todo, medicamentos. La calle estaba llena de tiendecitas de Souveneirs y artículos de coña, llena de gente, tanto turistas como mejicanos, andando de un lado para otro. El calor sofocante (40ºC), hacia casi imposible andar mucho rato sin entrar en tiendas para refrescarte, algunas solo con ventiladores.
Después de comer en un restaurante Mexicano tipico de la zona y comprar unos ...

We left Larado at 10:00 a.m. We went to the flying j and then we went to get doughnuts but they did not have any so mamaw ran across the street to pilot we got cappachinos and papaw got a coffee.We had no internet so I could not write on the coumputer so i had to write it on a piece of paper. We stopped in Langtry and learned about judge roy bean and how he made the laws of the west. We went ...

Monday the 13. We had to get up early in the morning to pack. We brought stuff from the house to the motor home. We stopped doing that at 1:30. When we left, we got on highway 83.w. We had a blowout on highway 83n. We heard a lot of noise and the rv started to shake. We waited 3 to 4 hours on the side of the road and the temp was 110*. Papaw brought out chairs and we sat in the shade of ...

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This blog was published in Montreal, PQ on October 10, 2009

It took me the entire year of 2008 to blog the Hawaiian series and it looks like I will need most of 2009 to finish off Mexico.

So what is coming up for 2010?

Driving Canada and the U.S.A. – A Video Blog

Hope I can pull it off as I have 50 hours of video taken during a 23,000 km trip I took in 2008.

That’s the plan but maybe where we go in ...

... historico” from the north and south is gained through various arched gates that reveal an awe-inspiring interior. Most remarkable are the uniformity of architecture, the narrowness of the smooth “ersatz” cobblestoned streets and the lack of electric wires as they are buried underground. It all seemed to fit together to produce a wonderful scene that immediately brought to mind the town of Cadiz in Andalusia, Spain. The similarity was astounding in ...

... knock-off). I will now avoid this overpriced chain. The coffee was from Puebla, not Italy (rant over). Bumped into German guys from Munich who were in search of a beer. Well, it is the start of Oktoberfest. We saved the day as our hostel sold the only beers in the vicinity. Yay! Off to Merida with 2 more travel partners from Dublin, Lorraine and Jennifer! Now there are four of us!

... 47 years. He has disagreed with the VA and taken life by the horns. He escaped the VA 45 years ago and with two friends, drove to Mexico AMA. He never looked back. Met his wife Thelma in Cuernavaca and then returned to the US to earn two masters degrees and teach high school in LA. Now their dream is to make this and a new place in Costa Rica, first class disabled persons resorts dedicated to helping them change their lives from what they call VA bound ...

... had information boards in English as well as Spanish and the native dialect Tolti. Finally it was a quick drive back through the old town inside the fort. Here you can see how they have spent lots of money making it all pretty for the tourists, every building has fresh pastel coloured paint on the walls with the windows highlighted in white. It almost makes it look like a toy town. After that it is back to the vehicle for the night.

Its 6:15 PM, and our bus is about to depart for Queretaro, where we will connect to another bus or taxi onto San Miguel de Allende. I was surprised at how easy it was to get across the border. Karen and I went to the Mexican Consulate in Laredo to get our permisos. After eating lunch with my folks, we went to International Bridge #1 where we walked across with our luggage. Once across, we went into the immigration office to pay the fees for the permiso and then walked a few ...