The thing about travelling is that you have to travel. At the moment we're moving pretty quick – not more than two nights in any one place. We're well aware that this can't be maintained for the whole time, but we want to have a bit of a look at Mexico before we move on to Central America. It does tend to give the budget a bit of a hammering. Bus travel, while cheap here, still costs. On the other hand, there is something to be said for sitting on the bus, appropriate music playing through the headphones (so far, appropriate has been everything from Lightning Hopkins, Blind Melon and Chisel), cruising through the country. Catorce to Zacatecas was a long day though, no doubt. Catorce to the end of tunnel, change buses, then to Matahuala,
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