It takes us 1 ½ hours from Mexquitic to the end of the ring road around San Luis Potosi – speed bumps terrible, road rough so have to go slow. The roads are rough but the scenery is beautiful. Rugged mountains. We go from about altitude of 6,000 ft to 7,200 ft before descending into Guadalajaura.
If we didn’t resort to taking the toll road, the trip would have been much longer. Total tolls for the day were $852 pesos (about $75 Cad). Toll roads are smoother, no topes, by-pass the small towns .. true expressway, but not always smooth. We checked our fuel consumption when we filled up at the Pemex station – despite the climbs up the mountain, we are still getting 7.1 mpg which is good considering we are towing a car.
When we finally arrived at 3:30 PM, at the Villa Corona campground is great. Rate is $230 pesos/day including hydro. We are exhausted from the long day of driving – we didn’t stop for lunch. We pay for 2 nights as we need a day to relax. Mtce staff immediately sweep our patio to remove the pine needles fallen from the trees on our site. Many people here are from Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia. Neighbours very friendly. When our next door neighbour saw us about to set up our Star Choice satellite dish next to his, he runs out to say just plug into his dish – we hadn’t been there 30 minutes, he hadn’t even met us before this!!!
The resort has pools filled with water from hot springs in the area. We learn the next day that the RV community social gathering is around 8:30 am in the pool.
While setting up on our site and try to level to RV, we discover that one of our levellers isn’t working, but luckily we don’t need it to level our rig so we’ll need to fix it next day. Yes, it is the same one as Vic repaired in Tupulo Louisiana. To hell with fixing it today. We are too exhausted to do anything but drink a marguarita and have some dinner.
The park has WiFi access in a patio area just outside the office where most RV residents use Skype to call home to family. We use the area to catch up on our email, only to find out that we still cannot access our Rogers email accounts. We were fine in Texas but as soon as we reached Mexico, the server disconnects us as soon as we enter our passwords – funny it always worked when we flew to Mexico for our 2 week vacation in February. We’ll have to investigate.
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