A Long Drive

We left San Carlos on December 14th and spent the first night in Mazatlan.  I have never been a fan of that city and that impression remains with me.

We drove from there to San Pancho with the intention of spending two full days looking for a condo for next year.  We found some nice places in Rincon de Guayabitos, but none would even consider us as long as we had Maggie.

We then switched our attention to finding a small house in San Pancho....we had a little more luck here, but in true Mexican fashion we are still waiting for a reply from the realtor.

Just to be on the safe side we put a deposit down on an RV site in Lo de Marcos.

The drive from San Pancho to Villahermosa was uneventful and very pleasant.  The roads were all toll roads....we made 40 toll stops a for a cost of $270 Cdn.  The Villahermosa to Campeche leg was a bit of a chore.  The roads were a throw-back to twenty years ago - all pot holes and topes!  And we paid for this!

We had to sneak Maggie into two hotels, but with the rest she was able to prance through the lobby, in true Maggie style.  Princess Maggie!

We forgot to take a Mexico map so we had to rely on the printouts that Fred had for finding the hotels....that and GPS.  Not that Garmin was any help for all we heard was "recalculating"!

Even so, we only got lost once and that was in Merida when we were looking for our apartment.  It took about an hour, but we eventually stumbled upon the place.  More about our apartment tomorrow.

We saw places that we had previously visited and were pleased to spend some time visiting these towns and cities.

It was a fun drive, but not one that I would want to do every year.  On the drive back to San Carlos we are going to break it up with stops in Palanque and Tequila.