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 1900's, the price of silver bottomed out and the town was all but abandoned. In the last few decades, people, mostly Europeans, have been moving there and starting up quaint and artsy businesses and the place has become sort of a tourist spot. What's particular about it is how you access it. There is a 27 km cobble
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