Well, we made it through Texas and crossed the border this morning at 7am. The drive through Texas was uneventful and we spend most of the time looking for animals...it was like we were on a safari. Crazy as it sounds we saw some zebra...apparently some of the Texas ranchers import exotic game aminals and people pay to hunt them on their property. Besides the zebras, we saw a few flocks of turkeys, javalina, hawks and deer. Unfortunately we counted over 25 dead deer on the road in a about 125 mile stretch. Could never live in El Paso, but San Antonio wasn't bad.
The border crossing this morning was pretty much a non-event....one we figured out where to go. Things were going really smooth until we hit Tampico...OMG! Jimmy Buffet has a song called, Tampico Trauma....and that is exactly what we experienced. Really big city, small one way streets and very little signage. After about 2 hours of driving in traffic there we finally made it out alive.. and on to the highway. The roads are really slow going; plus with the Tampico business, we didn't get as far as we had liked. We called it a day in the city of Tuxpan, on the coast. Eleven hours in the truck was my limit today.
The scenery was awesome, from farmland to banana trees and a huge abandoned moss covered church in the middle of the semi-jungle. Unfortunately, no pictures today....maybe tomorrow. It is hard to take them from the truck.
Onward and southward
Karen
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