Eats, 6:57 AM
Weather: Clear
Temperature: 13C
Notes: Our morning breakfast made outside our room complete with coffee, oatmeal and yogurt. This means an early start to our day.
Entry located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3159965,-98.2367081,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
On the Road, 8:07 AM
Weather: Sunny
Temperature: 16C
Toll road to Cárdenas
Notes: We followed Bill’s gps which took us to Puebla along a secondary highway. It wound through lots of little towns that were busy getting their workaday routines started. Traffic was heavy but moved well. Biggest headache of course are the numerous topes.
The trip sped up once we hit the 150D cuota highway. Again heavy traffic through Puebla but soon thinned as we made it out into the country. This area has terrible air pollution. It was even hard to see the volcano when we went by. Not only are there factories spewing smoke, but farmers are burning their fields too. Add onto that the heat and later, the humidity, it becomes quite the stew.
Segment 1 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@19.3159707,-98.2366655,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
Gassing up, 9:39 AM
Name: Pemex, San Mateo Tlaixpan
Cost: 215mx
Segment 2 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.9347773,-97.6919400,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
On the Road, 10:14 AM
Weather: Humid
Temperature: 38C
Name: Tolls :
Cost: 35+68+16+55+111+103+9=397
Notes: (Red Cross 4mx) It is not cheap to take the cuota highways but since we really needed to make some time, it was worth it. Some of the areas in the mountains were beautiful roads with great swoopy curves and plenty of passing room.
Segment 3 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.8390803,-97.3424531,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
Eats, 12:05 PM
Weather: Hot
Temperature: 32C
Lunch along the highway
Name: Restaurant El Retorno
Cost: 340.mx
Notes: I had filet with shrimp sauce, Bill had filet veracruzana. We shared a pitcher of Jamaica. Very nice meal.
Segment 4 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.5245749,-96.0877593,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
On the Road, 12:48 PM
Notes: Doing the cuotas. Hot riding but fast
Weather: Humid
Temperature: 36C
Event: Gas stop
Name: Pemex
Cost: 307.60
Segment 5 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@18.3328937,-95.8193290,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
Accommodations, Cardenas, 3:33 PM
Weather: Hot
Temperature: 38C
Name: Hotel Madan Cardenas
Cost: 740mx
Notes: We tried the hotel downtown that we stayed in before but the rooms were old and smelly and the beds hard. They had air-conditoners but they too were very old and probably made a racket when turned on. Instead we opted for this business man’s hotel close to the highway. It is a newer building with amenities you usually get in a motel 8. Things unheard of in modest Mexican hotels such as hair dryers, ironing boards and coffee maker in the room!
Segment 6 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@17.9976145,-93.3819671,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
Eats, 5:09 PM
Notes: Not quite ready for dinner but sure ready for refreshment! We enjoyed Guacamole and beer for two in the hotel restaurant.
Cost: 120mx
Segment 7 located at: https://www.google.com/maps/@17.9980874,-93.3815688,100m/data=!3m1!1e3
Daily cost: 2000mx $106.us
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