All Roads Lead To.......

In Europe they say, "All roads lead to Rome", but in Mexico they all lead to Mexico City. We left Veracruz this morning around ten and decided to take the better (Toll) road back which headed in the direction of Mexico City. All the roads in this part of Mexico lead like spokes on a wheel to Mexico City! We intended to turn North before getting too close to the smog and traffic of the Capital and to then join up with one of the many roads leading in the direction of San Miguel de Allende. It turned out to be a lot harder than it looked on the map. The road we chose looked pretty good on the map but it turned out to be poorly marked, rough, busy, narrow and full of impatient bus drivers who like to blast their horn and pass you on the shoulder if you are not driving to their liking. After several wrong turns and having to ask directions from the Federalies We succeeded in joining up with Mexico 57 headed North. The sun started going down soon after we got headed in the right direction so we stopped in one of the small towns along the way and found a really clean, quiet room with a very good WIFI connection for $300 Pesos a night. Tomorrow will be a straight shot to San Miguel and back to our poor, abandoned motorhome.

I was really glad we decided to leave it behind for this part of the trip. There were two mountain ranges to pass over with really steep grades in both directions. I am sure I would have burned out the brakes on the way to Veracruz and the long, steep climb today would probably have burned up more than the full cost of all the hotels in gas alone. For once I made the right decision!