Costa Rica Driving Adventure Day 5: San Luis Potosi, Mexico to Puebla, Mexico

I barely got any sleep last night. While the Westin is really nice, the rooms are loud.

Throughout the night, the pugs barked at every noise and woke me up constantly, ugh.

I felt pretty terrible in the morning as I have not had a good night sleep since I left Michigan. We decided to relax a bit and enjoy the Westin and left San Luis Potosi around lunch time. We were headed toward Mexico City. Barney drove to give me a break to rest my eyes a bit. After a couple hours of Barney driving, I was feeling better and we switched places. Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world. I was constantly waned about it. I heard how the traffic was horrible, I would get shot, carjacked, kidnapped, killed by drug lords, etc. That talk was all ridiculous. You don't even have to go near Mexico City. There is a bypass that is about 20 miles north and you take that around Mexico City. The bypass is one of the nicest roads I have ever been on. It is newly paved, has light traffic and high speed limits. It does go through the mountains though so it is a bit windy and up and down. By evening we were in Puebla, Mexico. I called Lori and she found a pet friendly hotel at the Intercontinental Presidente Puebla.

It is in an upscale business hotel. It was not really what we needed, but after our run around on hotels yesterday we weren't going to do that again. Lori said the website said 2 pets per room were allowed. That would work as I have 4 pets and we need 2 rooms. When I checked in though, the pet policy was different. I was told that only 6 rooms were pet rooms and 5 were rented. Further, only 1 pet up to 17lbs per room was allowed and all the pet rooms were at the back of the hotel and the only way to get to the rooms was through the font door. Lastly, the hotel added a $120 pet charge to my bill. Ugh. Commence pet smuggling operation. I put Gretel under a blanket and smuggled her in. As she was the only one in the room, she got nervous and started whining. Dean went in and sat with her. I went back and got Bugsy and put him under a blanket and smuggled him in. Two down, two to go. Barney offered to walk Oscar but I still had to deal with Midas. I put Midas under a blanket but it didn't work. He wiggles too much. I then emptied a large yellow duffle bag and put him in it. He fought me the whole way and kept unzipping it. So Barney and I switched and he walked Midas in on a leash as our one "legitimate" pet and I threw a blanket over Oscar and smuggled him in. We got them all in the room undetected. The room was 81 degrees at check in. All 4 pets were panting for about an hour. The pets are becoming pros at travel. They are very good in the car, especially if they get to sit on dad's lap. Oscar's heaving panting from earlier in the trip has mostly gone away.We hit a local Mexican restaurant and the food was good. Off to Tapachula tomorrow where we will spend our last night in Mexico.