Free range donkeys and the closed tunnel
October 11th 2009 I left Tampico at 8:30 after breakfast at the hotel. I had decided to follow a route that I traced on the map rather than go with the efficiency of the GPS. The roads I picked would take me through the northeastern Sierra Madre mountains on my way to Real de Catorce, a little isolated town I had read about in my guide book. Real was once a prosperous silver mining town, but at the start of the 1
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