Advertisement
Published: January 14th 2008
Chihuhua Centro, Plaza
historic center... just before an epic SAm Brown rock performance....El Paso presented several challenges to the these three travelers. First a friendly and well-intentioned police officer spent about 15 minutes quesitoning us about our vehicle and intended journey. He just wanted to make sure we werent traffiking any drugs from El Paso to Chicago or anything like that. Finding Mexican auto insurance on a sunday proved to be less than easy as well but a pretty little mujera sold us some for around 60 bucks. If that wasn{t enough a little check engine light popped on, presumeably because Barton didnt close the gas lid enough (we hope... and yes... we are travelling through Mexico with a check engine light on... more fun that way).
The border crossing was painless and the highway to Chihuhua was good. We arrived into the bubbling metroplis (close to a million personas) in the early evening. After securing a room at 350 peso rate we headed into the night. All the bars and stands were closed and just as we were getting discouraged we saw a long line of cars heading into what looked like a soccer stadium. Barton ran across the street and we followed. Next thing we knew were in a large open
street party. 40 ounce cervezas cost about 2 $ and there were friendly people everywhere. Cars and trucks drove all around the area as the drivers showed off their engines and decals and rims. It was the Mexican version of Dazed and Confused. We got pretty good and crunked, ate three turkey legs and checked out the local mujeras (I should say that I, being the only single guy on the trip did that)
Today we have been walking around Chihuhua, a very nice and open city for walking with various old buildings and historic plazas. Tonight we plan on checking out the nightlife around the university. Early tommorow morning we head to the town of Creel to start our journey into Barrance del Cobra, a canyon larger than the Grand Canyon and plan to spend several days backpacking and exploring and hope to stay in an indigneous village at the bottom of the canyon...
see you on down that road...
-Brown
Advertisement
Tot: 0.393s; Tpl: 0.011s; cc: 6; qc: 49; dbt: 0.1745s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.1mb
alexmpino
non-member comment
yeeeeaaahhh
wasn't sure if you would make it..like another Alaska trip. but lookin good. ill just live vicariously for now. peace ps thanks for those discs...good shit man