Hola everyone,

This will be a very short post, as (once again), Claudia and I are bone-tired. This traveling stuff is hard…particularly in a foreign country.

We rolled out of Bucerias early this morning and drove back to Ajijic to begin packing for our early morning departure. As anyone who has traveled knows all too well, packing to return home is never as fun as packing to leave, but it goes a lot quicker because you basically don’t care how you look and the clothes are all a mess anyway. However, in this case, we’re ready to return. The last week has been hard on us all. There’s WAY too much to tell and it would fill many, many pages. Perhaps another day and another time…or possibly Barnes & Noble will want the book rights? I’ll work on a title. It’ll have to have “Old Gringo’s” in the title somewhere.

Right now, we’re laying out the gear to keep with us in the car and sorting out all the other stuff to put up in the rooftop carrier.

The first stop tomorrow night is Matehuala. The lady at the hotel told Claudia in broken English (aka Spanglish) that a tour bus is scheduled to arrive there in the afternoon, so we’re going to haul ass to get there and unload before it arrives. The next night is Laredo, TX, where we cross back into the good ‘ole USA. The last night on the road we arrive in Van Horn, TX….a memorable stop for us on our drive to California from Florida. The last time we were in Van Horn, it was sleeting when we unloaded.

From Van Horn we have a long haul back to Scottsdale, but armed with some Red Bull mixed with diet coke (trust me, it works) and the motivation to get home to our own bed, we’ll make it sometime that night.

This may be the final post until we get home. I’m not sure what the internet service will be, or how much energy I will have to log on and ramble a bit. So, until then….thanks for reading! It’s been an amazing journey.

Cheers,

Wayne, Claudia & Tuck