Well, then we headed further east - and then after a couple of hours or more of searching for a hotel room, we found one...and I smiled and just took it all in. Yep - I'm a whimp. I told you I'm not exactly the adventurous type....and you'd think Bob would learn that when I'm tired AND hungry - well, it's just not a good combination. Eating once a day (Day 2) or twice a day (today - and only because I MADE him stop) just doesn't work. Maybe we can learn from this?
So - today began with loud and boisterous thunderstorms during the night, which got the cat a little upset, thus keeping me awake as I listened to the soft snoring of my man. We got up, one of us rested, loaded up and headed out of town. Vendors were already up and setting up for the Sunday Tianguis - but I didn't really miss going. Just was happy I got to be there one more time. We got on to the highway - rather familiar because of our mess-up on day 2 - and headed east. Stopped at the Subway along the highway and got 2 cups of coffee and a sandwich each and headed out. We immediately drove into some rather heavy fog - but after just a few minutes, we were out of it. It sure was pretty the way it silhouetted the mountains surrounding us. We got into gorgeous areas of green - mountainous - lush vegetation, fields of green, green crops framed by darker green trees and then into places where there were quaint little villages nestled into the valleys. Stately rock formations edged in green. Tall mountains. Deep crevices. Some places looked like KS and others looked like Europe or Colorado or South Dakota. So.VERY.Pretty. As we got closer to Mexico City, we were surprised to see fields and fields of cacti and mountains covered with yucca trees. It was all still very green, but much more desert like.
All the highways have been incredible - even the toll booths are gorgeous! Oh - funny story. We pulled up to a toll booth quite a ways from Guadalajara that would circle around the northern edge of Mexico City. There was no one there - just a machine. Bob spoke to it - nothing happened. He got out of the car and noticed a card there that looked like a credit card - thought someone else had left it there. Suddenly a guy comes over and waves us on and the gate rises to let us through. Oooooo-kay. When we went to get off the toll road to go get gas, they asked us for the card. We told them we didn't know what it was - etc..etc.. A manager came out and said they had Bob on camera (?!?!?) getting out of the car - and then corroborated our story - told us what the charges would be and then told us to be sure and get the card next time! Yes, sir!
We had planned to spend the night in Puebla, but the GPS on my phone took us to a really yucky area - I guess it was the center spot of the entire town - because it sure wasn't El Centro! We got lost, ended up on some precarious streets...narrow, really rough...and then when we finally found our way out of it, we got stopped because we turned left on a green left turn light but somehow didn't turn into the correct lane - yeah, right. 500 pesos later, the cop left us alone, and we decided to head to the next town. Kinda glad we did. He'll have a good dinner out with his familia...won't he?
A about 5ish I got Bob to pull off the Highway at Italian Coffee so we could get something to eat - each having a croissant with ham and cheese and a coffee and we headed for Orizaba....
Once again, my cell phone GPS took us - or tried to - to the very center point of town. We resisted - after we got to the train tracks - and found the main part of town. FYI - In looking up info about it later, it says that it is tone of the cheapest places to live in Mexico - it is in the mountains - has clean air, and a bountiful water supply. Anyway - we started looking for hotels that would take the pets and were getting pretty frustrated. Personally, I was pretty down, over- done and to my breaking point. We'd driven for miles - cheap places, expensive places - places that I said, "No way!" from one end of this town and several others. Then I asked my FB friend to pray - and BAM! next hotel we stopped at was a yes! Thank YOU, God!
So, it was a little bit of a tough day for me - but the dogs and the cat and my man did fine through it all. I'll do better tomorrow. Yep.
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