9 pm
today was almost boring, which is crazy to say, considering.
we drove through a very mountainous area today. it rained most of the day, and at times the mist was so think that we could barely see 10 meters in front of the truck. every time the mist lifted, we were treated to gorgeous views of moist mountain farms, and rich, dense forest. it reminded me a lot of the south coast of BC, or washington. there were a lot of familiar looking trees mixed in with the cacti and banana trees, which is a bizarre thing to see.
later in the day, to road opened onto an almost desert-like area. it reminded me of the okanagan, with lots of low mountains covered in huge cacti (much bigger than you'd see in BC though) and dry grasses.
we've stopped at a little place called the "contry express" (their misspelling, not mine - unless that means something in spanish that's not in my dictionary), just north of tampico. this one also is a hotel that is in the mexican camping book, and looked nice. it's lovely, quite fancy by mexican non-touristy standards. there is no toilet seat, but that's pretty par for the course here.
we had an actually really lovely mexican dinner at the truck-stop-ish restaurant here. we were both stressed/tired after a long day of driving, and went over there just to have a beer, but the lady brought menus and we flipped through them and found some things that actually looked great, so we figured we'd eat there. our two dinners and 6 beers cost a whopping $215 pesos (about $18 CAD), and was just fabulous.
we're hoping to make it to the vicinity of the border tomorrow. likely we won't make it across, we've got over 500 km to drive (which today took us 9 hours), but we're hoping to make it to matamoros tomorrow night, then on to houston friday - we figure it might be better to do the border crossing freshly rested, as opposed to exhausted after a long day on the road.
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