Costa Rica Driving Adventure Day 6: Puebla, Mexico to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico

Our goal today was to drive all the way to Tapachula, Mexico, which is very near the Guatemala border. That plan was a bit too ambitious. We ended up stopping in Tuxtula Gutierez, Mexico, which is about 2 hours from the Guatemala border. It was very hot at times today, approximately 100 degrees. You could really feel a huge temperature increase when we came down from the central plateau area to around sea level near Veracruz. Much of the drive today was through winding mountain roads. There was some nice scenery.

At times, it reminded me of Costa Rica. At one of the toll booths today we saw the remains of the worst accident I have ever seen. You could barely tell that the remains were once a car. The dead driver's arm could be seen coming out of the metal. We suspect that he approached the toll booth going near 100 mph and couldn't stop and hit a large truck and went under it. It was pretty gruesome. If we would have left 15 minutes or so earlier we could have been involved in it or seen it happen live. Yikes! The pugs haven't been eating much so I decided to buy them some meat, which they can never resist. Before I could do so, Barney bought them some Mexican hot dogs. Yep, they scarfed them right down. Oscar then decided Bugsy's litter box looked comfortable.

I took this selfie showing my secret pouch to hide my $$$.

Not that I need it, LOL. I quit wearing the pouch today because it really is safe here. We got lucky with our hotel room today. The first hotel we tried was perfect for smuggling in pets. It's called the Palapa Palace. Bugsy seems to like it here.

We were all pretty tired so we just had dinner at the hotel. Barney got a girl at the hotel restaurant to take this picture of the three amigos.

Tomorrow the plan is to cross into Guatemala and drive through it and cross into El Salvador to spend the night. We'll see if we can accomplish that much. Guatemala is known for having corrupt cops. I may be writing about bribes tomorrow. Only 1200 miles to go, but 5 border crossings are left. I wrote this post last night but had to wait to post it until this morning because it appears the hotel turns the internet off at night. LOL