Blogs from Zacatecas, Mexico, North America

Today is a move on day. I sleep late after a disturbed night. I can only put this down to it being a Saturday night in the city! There seemed to be revellers driving past with blaring music and, what sounded like, wild dogs barking ferociously all night...and we are at the back of the building! I don’t think I fell asleep until around 3am! Anyway, there is no rush as breakfast is served later on Sundays and our bus does not leave until noon. We have a leisurely breakfast, make a couple of phone calls back home and buy a couple of bits for lunch as we will be travelling for six hours today and we are not sure what (if anything) will be provided by the bus company! We order our Uber, standing at ... read more

Distance driven today: 254 miles / 409 km Cumulative distance driven: 5,065 miles / 8,151km (12,000 miles to go) Today’s trip: Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico to Zacatecos, Zacatecos, Mecixo Getting lost in the slums of Torreon in the morning: yes I must have spent, over the past 3 years, close to 150 hours with the Garmin mapping software, creating detailed waypoints on the digital maps I use for this trip. I have created thousands of waypoints (individual locations on the map) and then grouped multiple waypoints together into routes. I have also created a multitude of back-up routes for this PanAmerican trip. It is fair to say that I prepared my digital maps in advance of this trip so meticulously, that even professional mapping experts would be impressed! But I also know well that, plans serve primarily ... read more

Leider hatten wir übersehen, die Uhr eine Stunde zu verstellen, und so wachten wir um 8.00 auf, frisch und munter, jedenfalls relativ. Hektik, als wir beim Frühstück unseren Fehler bemerkten. Aber dadurch entging uns die Panik der anderen, die sich nur im Konvoi fahren trauten aus Angst vor ich weiss nicht was. Jedenfalls fuhr ich allein, wurde überhaupt nicht an- oder erschossen und alles war gut. Fast. Es war nämlich saukalt, mit 14 Grad war es kälter als in Alaska, da war ja Hitzewelle. Irgendwann gab ich klein bei und holte noch eine Lage Gwand aus dem Topcase, aber auch dann war es nur knapp erträglich, nicht richtig warm. In Zacatekas angekommen wurstelte ich mich durch die Kopfsteinpflaster Strassen, war fast da, nur noch links abbiegen, das ist die Strasse vom Hotel. Aber genau diese Strasse ... read more

David here... We got up especially early (06:30am) as the bus from Guadalajara to Zacatecas takes 5 hours and we wanted to get there early enough so we could get into our chosen hostel. We got to the bus stop to the bus terminal and jumped onto a bus after both of us checking with the driver that he did in fact go to the bus station. After about 40 minutes we ended up on a random street in Beunos Aires, we think...nowhere near the bus terminal. We asked the driver again and he just said in Spanish that he did not understand. We were quite angry at this as we´d both specifically asked him, so angry in fact that I think he realised he had made a big boo-boo and gave us our money back, ... read more

Bueno, estamos en la ciudada de Zacatecas, en el estado de Zacatecas. Esta es una parada pequeña. El viaje en bus duro 4 horas y llegamos al hostal Villa Colonial. No lo recomiendo, los baños sucios y nada esta en muy buen estado, sin embargo es conveniente y creca de todo. En zacatecas nos quedamos solo dos noches, ayer y hoy. Mañana para Guadalajara por 3 noches. Ayer fuimos a las fiestas, tipo zapote, pero nos divertimos tomando Corona familiar...hahaha!No sabia que eso existia. Medio borrachos bailamos y cantamos al ritmo de mariachis en vivo y caminamos por el pueblo. Hoy caminamos mas y nos fuimos al teleferico, que curza la ciudad por el aire en mas o menos 5 minutos. Es una ciudad, una parada pequeña pero que le sacamos jugo. Hoy en el hostal ... read more