San Sebastián Del Oeste

We left San Pancho to visit Walmart and to go to a vet who could fit a European micro chip into Maya. Todo hadn't been chipped either so Frida came along for the ride, and with a bit of a squeal we both had bionic dogs!

We spent an inordinate amount of time/money in Walmart and then headed away from the coast for the first time in months. We laid over in a lovely grassy campground run by some Canadians, and got invited up to the house for happy hour.

In the morning, rather than take the main road back to the coast then up again, we decided to trust Google and go on the back roads. We realised what a mistake this was the first time it tried to direct us down a mud track and into a river! Still being stubborn as we are (well I am anyway) we persevered and was just very glad it hadn't been raining much recently as at one point we had to dry across a weir and another was a full on river bed crossing. There was a loud cheer when we eventually made it back onto metalled roads!

We stopped for a gorgeous lunch of slow roasted beef ribs and carne asada, which came to about $7 USD - this is one of the reasons we are loving Mexico so much. From there we drove up more cobbles to San Sebastián Del Oeste, an ancient village in the hills. We explored town admiring the old buildings covered with bullet holes from the Mexican revolution, then stretched the legs up to the Mirador looking out over town. It's old bumpy and windy roads was pretty tricky in the van, and we camped for the night just out of town as we (particularly Maya) couldn't face pounding any more miles as there really aren't any campsites around here.

Unfortunately although Maya loves the van, she isn't so keen on it moving and has thrown up on the last few journeys. I'm not surprised considering today's gravel roads but we are really hoping she grows out of it soon as we have a lot of miles still to do.Lue lisää