Blogs from Mineral del Monte, Hidalgo, Mexico, North America

There is indeed much cactus in Mexico, but I’m speaking Australian here, and things went pretty much cactus for a while back there. From Oaxaca Mabel, who continues to hang in there like the trooper of the little car she is, took us on a fairly easy and uneventful journey to the city of Puebla. We did try and visit the nearby ruins of Cacaxtla but enthusiasm for this detour took a hit when we hit a hidden sleeping policeman at speed, eliciting cries of pain from C, whose back is not good, and a stream of profanities from me, whose patience with these damn things is wearing thin. After negotiating the confusingly signposted and, at certain points, absently signposted roads we eventually found the site, closed. Heading back into Puebla we spent as much time ... read more