Maybe we should have taken a airplane. One more word on Zacatecas. Friday and Saturday everyone parties until 4 or 5 am.
We arrived in Guanajuato, MX. Very beautiful colonial city. Primarly, we stayed on Hwy 45 (D).

Very colorful and active community. Chess anyone.

We stayed two days. We also took a tour of Dolores Hidalgo. Miguel Hidalgo is very revered in Mexico. He was a Catholic priest who issued the Crita, independence from Spain (1810), on the stairway of the Catedral.

He was excuted by firing squad. Just a couple of years before the revolution Benito Juarez was born. Benito Juarez was the most revered president of Mexico.
We then went to San Miguel Allende. Also, a beautiful colonial city. Ran into a few Americans now making their residence there.
We left Guanajuato on Monday for Puebla. The route was plotted out well, Hwy 45(D), to miss the City of Mexico and its 8 million inhabitants. As we got close, I noticed more graffiti on the road signs. Wouldn´t you know it, the sign to skirt the city was painted. We missed it and couldn't get off. Now we were smack in the middle of Mexico City at 1 pm.
We met 4 million of the 8 million inhabitants. As luck would have it, a motorcyclist pulled up beside us. He was an off duty police officer. Impressed with our 8 days of traveling, and wondering why we were in the middle of the city, he guided us out. What a ride. Don´t ask me how many lanes are in the street. You just battle for position.
We got out and back on the cuota.
Arrived in Puebla at 5 pm. Here for two days. I need the rest. Just got introduced to paella-rice and seafood. It had good size octupus tenacles, shrimp, clams and mussels. We finished the meal off with a tres leches cake. It was all preceeded by cerveza and sangria.
Next stop-Catemaco, on the east coast and south of Vera Cruz. The center of witchcraft.