Puebla, Patzcuaro

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Again, a wonderful hotel breakfast.

It was a bit warmer than the night before, but we still felt we should move on to a warmer area of Mexico, even though Jalapa is wonderful.

Our early start paid off, as we arrived at the Museum of Anthropology in good time.  It is composed of big rooms and courtyards put together on huge grounds, which are gardens.  The enormous Olmec heads were the stars.  How and why were they made?  There were life sized clay statutes as well as clay stamps.  I felt I was flitting from one exhibit to the next, taking pictures.  I put myself into “artist” brain.  We even ate lunch there.  The smell of food wafted throughout the museum.  Hard to resist

It was sunny and warmed up, but off to Puebla we drove.  It was a sleepy, easy day for me, as I was asleep several times during our little day trip.  We could not find any hotel rooms available in Puebla.  We camped in the same spot at Trailer Park Las Americas.  A walk into Chulula for supper found us tromping on new territory.  We found a big church and a huge town square.  The restaurant reminded Ken of Fawlty Towers – the service was unusual.

Monday, March 18, 2013

It was quite chilly, actually cold, when we woke up at the Trailer Park Las Americas. 

I felt comfortable though, better than a very cold hotel room; it was our familiar Pépe, the van.  We ate at VIPs.  I now remember why I swore off such a place – expensive and poor food.

We had two distinct travel companions for the day – two very high mountain peaks, both snow covered.  One looked like it could be a volcanic mountain, as mist or smoke looked like it was coming out of the peak.  We drove the Arc Norte to avoid any kind of driving encounter with Mexico City traffic.  It drove through a variety of topographies, but we did see many Joshua trees and much red earth.  The highway was often flat and smooth, with 110 km speed limit – a driver’s dream.  We discovered a hacienda in the middle of no where.  There were horses and donkeys too.

We drove through the heart of the big city of Morelia.  We loved that city on our 2010 trip.  It was a nice reminder of the regal stone buildings.

We were surprised by the amount of campers with rigs at our Patzcuaro campground and the friendly Canadians and Americans loving Mexico as we do.  One man from Que. invited us to supper.  The troop of us went near the lake.  One lady knew Kristin and Iain, our friends from Gabriola.