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Finally back, after 4 years!
After one long night and short sleep in the bus that took us to Monterrey, Pierre's friend Rony was there, waiting for us with a week long list of activities, parties and sightseeing. We first had to adapt to the incredible heat of Monterrey, built in the middle of the desert. August being the hottest month of the year, the day time temperature averaged the 40 degrees and at night no less than 25 degrees. Rony took us to his parents where we spent the all week, ...
Leaving San Miguel/Mexico for Ottawa/Canada
Leaving San Miguel/Mexico for Ottawa/Canada.....
Could not get anyone to go with me
to share the driving and driving expenses
and to ride SHOTGUN.
It is a 12 hour drive from San Miguel, through the Mexican border war zone,
to the Texas/USA border and safety and security...
I will be driving alone.
They tell me that anyone driving alone is a sitting duck for the bandito's,
drug gangs and desperado's that inhabit and ...
Still alive in the Mexician border war zone.....
... limit in the right lane is 80 K and in the left lane it is 120 K. Some of the old clunkers the Mexicans drive can't even do 80 K. It is scary coming over a hill at 160 K and there is some Mexican poking along at 30 or 40 K...
The highway is through a desert (semi-desert or badlands) - no farming, no ranching, just shrub and cactus...and a very fine powdered dirt that quickly turns into a big dust cloud if someone drives off of the highway or comes off of ...
Monterrey
... is fresh, there are mountains and hills every where you go, and it is beautiful. I find it funny how my family in mexico is so rich that one of my aunts have a mansion, but in America we are not so rich. Monterrey used to be so beautiful, until Las Zetas, a gang, destroyed it. At least i got to see my family that i have not seen in years. Even my mom came from Houston to my surprise party. ...
Por poquito!
Bueno pues para ponerle sabor al caldo resulto que no tenia pasaporte hasta el dia de ayer hahaha, varias personas empezaron a dudar que fuera, pero pues al final si pudimos obtener el tan preciado documento.
Es hora de hacer las ...