We left Teotihuacan for the mythical town of Mineral del Monte in Mexico – the town that eats the most Cornish pasties in the world. Surely this cannot be true? We did contribute to their count, tho! But first we visit the interesting rock formations at Basaltic Prisms of Santa María Regla. We’ve never been to the Giants Causeway in […]
After our week long stay at the garage, we headed to Teotihuacan for some R&R (and to get a rather large backlog of laundry underway). What drew us to Teotihuacan? More ruins of course! This time Aztec pyramids. But, the real draw was the opportunity to float above them in a balloon. We first visited the site on foot (in […]
Two choices – the autopista or the ‘free’ and windy parallel old road. We chose the latter and enjoyed the slow trek through very beautiful countryside to Tehuacán, where we spent two nights at the Cactus Biosphere (really nice, except for the Mosquitos!), home to 80 different types of cactus. During this time, we unfortunately had more technical problems with […]
We left Oaxaca and headed towards Tehuacán. All started out well, but Big Bertha steadily lost power and progressively exhausted more and more thick black smoke. By the time we reached Tehuacán we were having trouble exceeding 40kph and climbing hills. All was definitely not well. We found a wild camp and the next day Dave started diagnosis with the […]