Highway to Mexico

Driving to Mexico is a 7-hour adventure!  It isn't that far away, but at an average of 25 mph, dodging vehicles, pedestrians, and road hazards, it takes us a while.  It is a beautiful drive, though it is exhausting.

We stopped to see some beautiful lagoons along
the way in Mexico.

On market day in the border town of La Mesilla,
Guatemala, the traffic is detoured through a
residential neighborhood.  The road is one-way
down a steep mountainside, then up again.

There was a recent landslide on the main
highway, so we were glad for our Land Cruiser's
big tires and 4wd.  The smaller cars had trouble driving
through the mud.

We waited several minutes for this bus to
make about a 10-point turn to go up the
small road on the left.  Old American
schoolbuses are sent down here to be
"chicken buses."  This one hasn't been
repainted in bright colors yet.