Durango and on my own again!
We make it to Durango before noon today. It has been interesting, and different traveling with Alma but today is her last day. She is leaving, tears, and I'm continuing on my own.
There are advantages and disadvantages to traveling through Mexico with a Spanish-speaking friend. The biggest disadvantage is that no matter how hard we tried not to, we ended up speaking english most of the time - and Alma ended up translating my Spanish into Spanish for me, rescuing those folks that had to struggle to figure out what the hell I'm saying.
Today I splurge and treat myself to two yummy veggie corn and pepper tamales, as I search for a Caffenio or similar independent coffee shop that has internet, before I leave Durango.
There are over a half million people in Durango, yet people call it a 'small town'. I wonder if that's because they are thinking Mexico City and not Las Glorias or Rosario.
I spend a long time, talking with many people, trying to find a coffee shop that has internet also. I'm not sure if people understand me 100 per cent, but I find lots of internet cafes that charge per hour, and two coffee shops that are both closed - even though they both have signs and stuff inside, they're definitely shut down.
One of the neighbors of a closed coffee-shop tells me of another coffee shop with internet. I try to follow his directions but cannot find it. I return to 20th of Noviembre (the name of a street) to try again when I see it, a cute little coffee cafe! Not the one he was talking about, but the one I need.
And yes, it has internet! So I'm catching up with everything. And I'll have to readjust to having my cute little casa-camion all to myself.
Tonite, I plan on parking close to this coffee shop, just in case I can have internet access all night and in the morning! It seems to be a quiet neighborhood with a huge university close by, several u.s. hotels around too, like Best Western and the Holiday Inn.
Tomorrow I want to head further into Mexico, maybe towards Agua Calientes, and then Guadalajara. I want to take about a week or so and then head back to the ocean for a couple of days before I go to Cuernavaca - especially if it remains cold outside. So far, so good.
There are advantages and disadvantages to traveling through Mexico with a Spanish-speaking friend. The biggest disadvantage is that no matter how hard we tried not to, we ended up speaking english most of the time - and Alma ended up translating my Spanish into Spanish for me, rescuing those folks that had to struggle to figure out what the hell I'm saying.
Today I splurge and treat myself to two yummy veggie corn and pepper tamales, as I search for a Caffenio or similar independent coffee shop that has internet, before I leave Durango.
There are over a half million people in Durango, yet people call it a 'small town'. I wonder if that's because they are thinking Mexico City and not Las Glorias or Rosario.
I spend a long time, talking with many people, trying to find a coffee shop that has internet also. I'm not sure if people understand me 100 per cent, but I find lots of internet cafes that charge per hour, and two coffee shops that are both closed - even though they both have signs and stuff inside, they're definitely shut down.
One of the neighbors of a closed coffee-shop tells me of another coffee shop with internet. I try to follow his directions but cannot find it. I return to 20th of Noviembre (the name of a street) to try again when I see it, a cute little coffee cafe! Not the one he was talking about, but the one I need.
And yes, it has internet! So I'm catching up with everything. And I'll have to readjust to having my cute little casa-camion all to myself.
Tonite, I plan on parking close to this coffee shop, just in case I can have internet access all night and in the morning! It seems to be a quiet neighborhood with a huge university close by, several u.s. hotels around too, like Best Western and the Holiday Inn.
Tomorrow I want to head further into Mexico, maybe towards Agua Calientes, and then Guadalajara. I want to take about a week or so and then head back to the ocean for a couple of days before I go to Cuernavaca - especially if it remains cold outside. So far, so good.
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