Best Western Tampico

... potholes and all. It was a stressful couple of hours.

And
that bridge...holy
freaking ****. My heart still stops thinking about it. it was like
going up and down a cliff. (Maybe 30-40 degrees grade. I'm NOT exaggererating)

Thank GOD we had a gooseneck,. Bumper pull
would NEVER have made
it. I really don't know how the girls stayed on ...

Tampico is much nicer than Monterrey! The family we are staying with is really cool. They are Catholic, so we've had a good chance to witness. We gave the husband a book called "More than Conquerers" so he could practice his english..... We went out for Tacos and Gringas - Muy Rico! We have an overnight bus tonight to Veracruz, then on to Cordoba - exactly what everyone says not to do!

It's beautiful here in Tampico. There's tons of night life and it's a lot safer than Monterrey! We boarded the bus from Monterrey at 10:00 AM this morning. We had the very front seats on the bus. The ride was not very comfortable. We just couldn't position ourselves in any way to make the ride more enjoyable. Not to mention, we hardly ate before we got on the bus and the bus doesn't make any stops ...

Our first stop in the morning was to an insurance agent to get some car insurance for traveling in Mexico. An official at the Texas visitors station had given me a number of an agency. The lady on the phone was helpful and indicated that getting the insurance State side was better than at the border in case a claim needed to be made. We get to the office and the craziness begins as the Old Man tells us that we canīt go through Mexico with the intention of ...

Since we were leaving that day around noon, I had several hours to explore the neighborhood.

The trip was another long one. This was largely due to staying longer than anticipated at each stop. Feeding and watering 100 Caravanistas is time-consuming. Additionally, just outside the city of Tampico, there was another torrential downpour. Visibility was down to nothing; with little warning we entered a small town and the road narrowed. Two vehicles had one ...

Final Location: Tampico Alto, Mexico Total Miles Driven Today: 327 Total Miles Driven Trip: 2085 What a LONG day. After what seemed like years to get started, we were finally able to leave Matamoros and head south. Marcelo and Juan Carlos left to straighten things out with the bus while I tried to get rid of a migraine and watch the vehicles. Knowing that the guys would likely ...

Day 2 Blog The rule for eating breakfast: be at the chuck wagon and finished eating by 7:45 am or go hungry. Dr. B can usually be spotted opening the wagon around 6:30 and responsible people (like my roommate) try to get down there to help him. Despite Kay's early rising and morning shower, I slept with my ear plugs firmly in place til 7 am. Without realizing it, I started noticing who was an early riser, who arrived on time and who didn't make it for breakfast. Since I was one of the ...

... out until the stores closed. Two beautiful plazas and ice ream and shoe stores on every block? Really active , lively community. Cheap too! After my City touring I am driving South to Papantla, major ruins there and then down the coast to Xalapa where there is a HI Hostel. Yay I will probably spend two days there. Coolest thing today....a 3 foot snake road kill! and the world largest donkey .....

Tampico DOES have some points of interest, notably nearby Huastec ruins, but I had neither the time nor knowledge nor inclination for them at the time, so I change buses and move on. It's hot as Hell, so I order up one of those delicious-looking aguas naturales in the big jars with big chunks of ice floating in them. Big mistake.