We have covered a few miles since I last wrote on Sunday afternoon.
Actually, we have traveled practically the whole length of the Mexico.
Here's a synopsis.
We were set to leave on the 6:40 pm night bus to Mexico City (DF) but
there was only one seat so we waited until the 8 pm bus and headed out
into the darkness from SC later than we planned. I really can't say
much about the dark part of our route except that we headed towards
the Carribean coast and then headed north. As the sun was coming up I
noticed that we were climbing a lot and looked over to see the
perfectly clear and snow capped mountain of Volcan Orizaba. It was perfectly cone shaped and had a
ton of snow on it. I believe that, at 5700 meters (18,700 ft), it is the highest
in Mexico. Shortly afterwards I saw more snow on the horizon as
Popocapetl and its neighbor, Ixtacihuactl, loomed on
the horizon. Popo actully had a lot of smoke coming out of the top
of its perfect cone. One of my wishes was to see a smoking
volcano and it came true!
We soon descended a very big hill into DF and ended up in the bus
station only to find out that we couldn't connect at that one and
needed to go to another station. The bus company man was helpful and
said that we could just ride the eight km ourselves following his
directions. We did that and found the riding to be fine despite the
reputation of DF. I didn't find it to be very different than the
other cities we rode through. We had the taxi lanes to ourselves and
there were so many lanes that we always had room. Forty-five minutes
after we got to the norte station we were gone on a bus to Juarez.
There's really not much to say about that trip except the drivers
were quite nice. We arrived in Juarez at around 11 am, after a 23
hour trip. Crossing the border was a non-event after taking the
bus shuttle 10 km from the Juarez station to the border crossing.
We arrived at the Albuquerque bus in time to buy the last two
tickets for the 5pm bus. By the time we get home tonight we will
have been traveling for 50 hours. It sounds much worse than
it really is. I feel rested and only a little restless. I will
update more toomorrow and post pictures as well.
El Paso, by the way, has free wifi downtown so we are partaking.
Thank you El Paso!
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