The morning of Thursday December 3rd we met up with our travel buddies George and Carmen to drive to Lo de Marcos, Nayarit, Mexico.
It was our first time crossing at the Anzalduas International Bridge at Mission TX. This crossing is RV friendly. No commercial traffic can cross at this bridge. The lanes are wide and straight through. The cost for us was $16.75 USD for our motorhome with tow car. It was $9 for the truck with 5th wheel trailer that our friends were driving. You drive through the "Nothing to Declare" lanes and line up for an x-ray of the RV. They take about 10 minutes to study the results of the x-ray. Then you are clear to purchase your tourist card (and vehicle permit if you didn't purchase it ahead of time over the internet).
We used toll roads where available on our route south. The route took us through Monterrey, Saltillo, Zacatecas, Aguacalientes and Guadalajara. The roads were excellent. Much better than the route down 15D on the west coast.
The tolls were $90 more on this route but it is 608 miles shorter for us to travel to Mission TX and down this route than our route previous years of driving to Tucson AZ, crossing at Nogales and driving down the west coast of Mexico. We saved $1338 CAD on fuel and camping fees by taking this route from Mission .(The price of gas at PEMEX in Mexico is 13.57pesos/litre or $1.08 CAD which is more than the price in Toronto currently)
We spent 2 nights as PEMEX stations. The first night in Concepion de Oro and the second night at Magdalena. The PEMEX station in Magdalena is new and has a large compound for RVs and truckers to overnight.
We arrived at Savage RV Park in Lo de Marcos at 10:20 am on Saturday December 5th. It is hot and humid here. Day time highs are 30C to 33C with overnight lows of 22C. The ocean is 29.2C (about 85F) so quite comfortable for swimming, floating or boogie boarding.
Saturday night is taco night in town so we headed out for an inexpensive dinner for our first night back in our winter home.
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