We left GDL around noon, our usual 'crack of noon' departure. We hit the toll roads and spent the rest of the day driving. The jeep is holding on pretty well, one of the bolts was a little loose but that's all so far.

Around 8:30pm we started looking for a place to stop. We were outside of Toluca (a big city in its own right and it is only 30km from the really big city - Mexico City) at around 8500' elevation. We found a great Pemex with lots of room and it even had guards carrying automatics. Well, on second thought perhaps that is NOT a good sign. Anyway, we got gas and pulled in back for the night. I was making hamburgers when the guard came and knocked on our door and said that it was not safe here, that the Pemex closed at 10pm. I swear he said something about "se mata" which sounds like "killed" to me. I don't know but we decided to move on. He told us there is another Pemex 30 minutes down the road that is open 24 hours with armed guards. OK, we'll eat dinner and keep on going. It wasn't 30 minutes down the road as the next 4 Pemex were full of trucks, but we did find a spot right before Toluca and pulled in for the night. Really high altitude in this part of Mexico, we were at 8571' for the night.