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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Our sweet baby Tiki enjoying being on the road, he is such a great
little traveller. He loves to explore new places almost as much as
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico At the entrance to a the hotel parking lot where we have
been staying, it was not unusual to see this type of wonderful sight.
A young farmer taking a shortcut with his donkeys and firewood. |
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico In the northern part of Guanajuato we found this wonderful
cathedral called 'El Templo de San Cayetano de Valenciana'. |
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Ah, the famous Mina La Valaencia... For 250 years,
this mine produced 20% of the worlds supplies of silver, gold and other
important minerals. This, is the entrance to the mine complex... |
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico The shaft below this tower is nine meters wide and 500
meters deep. Although the mine was shut down after the Mexican
Revolution, it re-opened in 1968 and is run by a cooperative. It
still produces silver, gold, nickel and lead. |
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Once a kid always a kid :) |
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Overlooking Guanajuato from the mine compound.. |
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Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico While we were at the mine, we had the good fortune to meet an old miner who used to work here, long ago. He was documenting the mines history and happened to have this old photo. Two teams of horses would walk in circles, turning the giant central drum to pull in the ropes that haul the ore to the surface. We sat and talked to him for quite a while, very pleased with our luck in meeting him.
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North of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico As much as we don't want to go, and we know we will return
some day, it is now time to leave Guanajuato... |
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Central Highlands, Guanajuato, Mexico We now just want to get to the US border
ASAP to renew our visas. So, from this point on we make tracks up through
the Central Highlands of Mexico... |
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Central Highlands, San Luis Potosi, Mexico From Guanajuato to San Luis Potosi... |
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Central Highlands, Nuevo Leon, Mexico From San Luis Potosi to Nuevo Leon... |
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Central Highlands, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Ah, a turning point... Here, we leave highway Mex57
North to head east on Mex31 towards Linares. If we continued north,
we would have to pass through two very large cities... Saltillo and
Monterrey. We prefer to travel around big cities. We mention
this highway in particular because it is AMAZING! This road twists
and winds it's way from this turnoff, at an elevation of 6300 feet, down
to Linares at about 1300 feet elevation. A drop of 5000 feet over a
distance of less than 50 miles, as the crow flies. Most of that
elevation drop was over the last 25 miles though, making it one of the
steepest downhill runs that we made with George. Amazing scenery, if
you get a chance to travel this road, take it! |
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The gorgeous, remote, rugged mountains transitioning from
the Highlands to the Costal Plains! Just beautiful! |
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Transition from Highlands to Coastal Plains, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Never a dull moment... |
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Transition from Highlands to Coastal Plains, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Absolutely majestic!! |
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Transition from Highlands to Coastal Plains, Nuevo Leon, Mexico In memory of... |
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Transition from Highlands to Coastal Plains, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Words cannot begin to describe... |
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Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico And into Reynosa, we can hardly believe we are here
already, we travelled long and hard for the last number of days... |
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US Border Station, McAllen, Texas This is one of the prettiest border crossing we have ever
crossed. So pretty, that Cindy decided to take some photos of the
beautiful butterflies on the building. We pulled up to the booth,
and in a very serious & stern tone, the lady proceeds to ask why Cindy was
taking photos. Cindy innocently explains how much she likes the
butterflies, and the lady promptly suggests that she not take photos at border
crossings. |
| Wow, now that was a lot of travelling in a relatively
short period of time. We are so looking forward to visiting
Zacatecas and taking a break from our travels. See you soon... Click here to read the next segment of this Travel Log Series |
