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Published: December 28th 2006
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Zacatecas >> Tabasco Day 6 Saltillo >> Zacatecas >> Guadalajara >> Villa Corona, no, not the beer factory 😞 just a town
Highlights: route 54; wild bulls; Joshua trees; crosses; Tabasco; the three sisters; moo moo's; tequila plants;
Woke up early (way too early for Carlo, 6:30am) but what else can you do at a Pemex stay in bed till 9? It was a misty, foggy and smoggy morning, a quick sandwich with peanut butter and jam a cup of strong coffee and were on the road at around 7.30am. Oh yeah let me tell you about the bathrooms here at the Pemex, they upped the price on the bathroom visits, last night it was 1peso (10cents) to get in now this morning it was 2pesos, how in the world did they change an old rusty coin machine in the middle of the night. I swear it was just for us, 'GRINGO's in town', 'GRINGO's in town' must have been playing on the local radio station and the owner came in the middle of the night to change the fee, but we got them back as the machine for the men's bathroom was not working so we paid 2pesos and all of us
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Tabasco >> Guadalajara went in turn to use the woman's bathroom... Ha.
The first four hours down route 54 was across a major plain in the state of Zacatecas. Zacatecas is known as the silver state. Route 54 was plain and as flat as Manitoba, you could see for miles in all direction ending in distant the mountains nothing to see but these strange looking cactuses or where they trees. They look like a normal tree from the ground up then they turn into a fuzzy cactus like plant, they are beautiful and they were everywhere, just miles and miles of these trees. They are named Joshua trees ... http://www.wildnatureimages.com/Joshua Tree NP 1.htm ... Another reoccurring sight were the crosses along side the road, many decorated crosses, elaborate statues and shrines. In some cases there were 6 to 8 crosses at a time, so just to think, whole families died in road accidents, very sad. The other sighting were the warning signs for 'wild bulls' just like we have our signs for deer's, here they seem to have wild, free roaming bulls. We did see one but we did not get a chance to take a picture as we realized it too
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The tequila plants late "heh, there is a wild bull, neat, oh shit where is that camera again, oh man you are slow, no you are, no you are" ok so we bicker a little 😊
Once we got passed the city of Zacatecas the senery got more interesting and it became for hilly. The tequila plants started to show up everywhere either in the wild or in neatly planted rows. Then we headed to the mountains (no snow here but it can snow in Jan) the road started going up and up and up and then down and down. We had to get through three deep valleys (some traveler's call them the three sisters). There are no bridges except at the bottom of the valley so for a 5wheeler it is quite a challenge as the roads are narrow and steep with lots of big trucks.
During our drive in Mexico we would head out in front off D'nM and explore a bit. At some point we would wait for them and other times we had to race and catch up in case me missed a turn off near a major city.
Yukon loved the truck ride, she had
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The tequila plants, ouch it atually poked me thru the sweater and drew blood, those things are nasty and sharp. her head out the window many times because of the wonderful smells only a dog can love and we quickly learned that the word "moo moo's" she understood for any animal on four legs, or more for spiders or less for chickens, just 'moo moo's' would do, dog = limited vocabulary.
By the time we got to Guadalajara it was getting dark, we took the city perimeter to get to the south west side. By this time it was dark and had to find our way to Villa Corona, thank goodness D'nM had been here many times as you just cannot see anything in the dark here, bad road lighting or none at all and that goes for cars and trucks as well. Another thing in Mexico, everything changes from year to year, roads will change, store/restaurant/campground/turnoff here today gone tomorrow, replaced by a bigger building/road/etc the economy in Mexico seems to be in over drive.
Many of you may believe they still all travel with donkey and cart, yes in the country in the small towns on the beaten paths they still do but you see less and less of that, the rest of the country is
driving brand new cars, cars so new and exclusive we do not even see these in Winnipeg, currently we have a Jaguar stretch limo parked in the back lane here in Acapulco. I told dad "I guess we do not have to worry about my 'old' truck here in Mexico" how wrong I was, they will steal my truck for parts, just fantastic. I have already ordered my 2007 white Pathfinder special/special edition, oh wait, I do not have a job, oh well I will just ask my 'lollipop daddy', the younger version of a sugar daddy 😊
We arrived at the trailer park Chimulco in pitch darkness and parked in the overflow area and settled in for the night.
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