Hell’s Half Acre

Yesterday Jamie tried to take a ride from where we’re camped (just outside the city) into the mountains. It was a complete and utter disaster; the road was busy, trucks and cars were belching pollution and he actually turned back because the going was so dangerous. We decided to stay One More Day [...]

Last night we headed into Saltillo historic center and I, personally, was rather dissapointed. The cathedral is quite pretty, but for me, nothing can top the parroquia at Dolores. Anyway, we walked around a bit but the feeling was somewhat disquieting. In Dolores, I felt quite invisible; even though we’re the guera [...]

What an enormously long day. The AAA map said the drive from SLP to Saltillo should be 4.5 hrs but we managed to do it in 8. We had a few stops and one long one for lunch, but we realized, once seeing the mileage, that you’d have to average 100kph with no [...]

The hills and mountains are green. Green in the desert is a strange color. Yellow wildflowers blanket the hills where long grass has grown. Calves and baby sheep graze along the highway, guarded by young shepherders as school ended weeks ago. Mexican families load up vans and autos and even taxis [...]

So we’re back at the trailer, and coming into it, after spending a week in a hotel, I am almost certain that the hotel room is bigger than the entire trailer. We are doing a very good job of filling it though; not only with ourselves, but it is bursting at the seams with [...]

So a funny thing happened on the way to San Miguel. We hit the playground to let the kids play with some gringo kids and explored a bit – enough to find a bookstore with books in ENGLISH and….tadummm…..THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE!!! The bookstore was expecting a new shipment the next day and [...]

Yesterday, Jamie had an awful birthday. He is convinced he has Typhoid again (after being sick one day) so we’re off to the clinic again. Think of him today, would you?

A few weeks ago I was watching the evening news and there was a story on about the protest of a group local campesinos against the quantity and availability of foreign cars in Querétaro. I couldn’t understand the problem; the foreign plated cars we have seen (mostly on the highway) are few and far [...]

We were headed to Dolores Hidalgo to spend the night in a hotel so Jamie could watch yesterday’s stage of the tour (just can’t stay away from that wonderful town) but I was too sick to go. Got the same tummy thing as the other kids. Pike is just about 100% and while [...]

So, a funny thing happened on the way to San Luis Potosí. We returned from a lovely few days in Dolores Hidalgo, found our trailer safe and sound and further, found that the ground had hardened sufficiently to try to move the trailer. Jamie went for a ride, and as a surprise, I [...]