Mexico

Hola amigos! Estamos en México de nuevo! It felt great crossing the border - we knew the immigration and customs process well after two and a half years of living in Guadalajara.

Despite being so far south, we can already sense that we are in Mexico. The towns have the same feel: walls still painted with FOX for President banners, Corona billboards, convience stored called Abarrotes, and the annoying speed bumps and the entrance and exit of every single small town we encounter along the road!

We wonder who of Enric's co-workers will win the pool - some bet to see to which country we would make it! Who has Mexico? Who has the US?

Trip delays are forcing us to hurry up a bit in the end. We have cut out the "little circle" we were going to make around the Yucatan peninsula and are choosing instead to drive through Chiapas to Oaxaca and northward towards Veracruz on the Carribean coast and northward to enter the US through Texas.

After nearly 4 months on the road, we are full of mixed emotions - nostalgia for a great trip coming to an end, relief for a little bit of rest (and you thought that this WAS a vacation!), and gratefulness that the road continues to treat us well - knock on wood!