Retro Post: Day 11: Cuernavaca to Oaxaca

After a rest day the previous day at Axel's place in Cuernavaca, just outside of Mexico City, we headed out to Puebla.  We picked up Nijiko, another new team member who joined us for the remainder of the trip.  Now we are five!

Once we arrived in Puebla, however, we decided over our gas and food stop to push all the way through to Oaxaca, and we are glad we did!

Getting through Puebla was a bit of a challenge.  At one point, a six lane freeway that we were on just abruptly ended!  It's hard to explain our shock at going along, all by ourselves on this beautiful freeway only to find out that it just...ends.  Then we had to turn around, go back, and eventually ended up doing a bit of "offroading" on gravel roads in some twists and turns until we finally found our way to the other highway that we wanted to connect to.

Once we were on it, though, the highway from Puebla to Oaxaca is very nice.  We went up and up and up through the mountains of southern Mexico and really enjoyed the views and crisp air.

We did start noticing however, that our ambulance was making some funny noises on the curves, and was starting to really vibrate at highway speeds.  Well, we all know how that ended up!

But on arrival at Oaxaca we met Axel's mom, Pilar and were introduced to her wonderful house.  We felt right at home right away.  Pilar was a wonderful host for us.

We got to try some of the local Oaxacan food - champines (insects!)

Ahhhhh, a nice place to rest....