Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Drove 418 miles today, spent about $120 US on tolls but we aren't in the mode to tarry. It's a lot like driving across west Texas, in fact you could be almost anywhere in the southwestern US. In the valleys it is rich farming land with miles of orchards and fields, in between it is vast empty desert with stunning buttes and jutting ridges. We stopped in the city of Camargo, unhooked the jeep near a park, and I went in to the centro to use an ATM. It was difficult to park anywhere near the bank as the streets were full of vendors selling huge chrysanthemums in brilliant yellow and orange for Day of the Dead. All of the parking places were full of flower vendors and booths full of crosses made from flowers. All day we passed trucks with the whole family in back along with lots of flowers and floral crosses. Probably they were off to the cemetary where their family is buried to clean and decorate the grave. I have no cultural feelings about chrysanthemums so bought a bunch of yellow ones to decorate the rig. We spent the night at another Pemex outside of the city of Fresnillo.

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