Unfortunately, the following day we were both very hung over, and the road to the coast was km after km of slow, windy, bumpy roads. I blame the tequila. For most of the day, we were forced to swerve wildly to avoid potholes in the road, and spent most of the day driving at around 20km/h. That evening, we narrowly avoided an accident, when a driver decided to ignore our break lights and indicator, and attempted to overtake us, while we were turning into a driveway on the other side of the road. We stayed in an RV park/Auto hotel with no hot water and a large toad in the bathroom. People say that travelling isn’t all fun and games, and this was one of those days.
The following day wasn’t much better. It had rained all night and we nearly got stuck in the field outside our dodgy hotel. Then we spent a long day of driving getting lost. But we did learn 2 very important lessons for driving in Mexico:
1: NEVER follow a detour sign. It’s a trick.
2: Just because a sign on a freeway or road lists the road destination and road number, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to that place, on the listed road number. It might be going somewhere else, via a different road.
The following day wasn’t much better. It had rained all night and we nearly got stuck in the field outside our dodgy hotel. Then we spent a long day of driving getting lost. But we did learn 2 very important lessons for driving in Mexico:
1: NEVER follow a detour sign. It’s a trick.
2: Just because a sign on a freeway or road lists the road destination and road number, doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to that place, on the listed road number. It might be going somewhere else, via a different road.