Today, October 23rd and after two days of driving, we spend our second night at Teotihuacán Trailer Park smack in down-town San Juan Teotihuacán, just 1.25 miles from the famous Aztec site.
Before we got here, we went to the very colonial mining town of Guanajuato, which we don’t recommend anyone blundering into in anything taller and wider than a van. We ended up hiring two young men on a motor scooter for 50 pesos and two Pepsis to guide us through this city so that we wouldn’t get lost or tear off low-hanging cables or gutters or worse.
The “problem” was that we read in the Church’s Mexican Camping book that Guanajuato had a big grocery store down-town, and we needed supplies. The store does exist, but getting there without guidance and finding a spot to park is, let’s say, adventurous.
But we got our groceries and wound our way out to Bugamville RV Park. Now that is a beautiful, relaxing, and tranquil site compared to the confusing bustle of the town; I could have spent a week there. The restrooms and showers are clean, everything works, and there is a nice little restaurant which is open all year.
Then we decided to take the north-eastern bypass route for Mexico City to Teotihuacán, as described in the Church’s book. The idea is to avoid big city traffic by never approaching even its perimeter. After hours of tope-infested (tope = speed bump) towns, massive road construction projects, and truck-choked roads, I do wonder if continuing on the freeway to the edge of Mexico City instead of the bypass would have been better.
Today we walked to the Teotihuacán pyramids. This is a truly impressive site. We climbed the big Sun pyramid, which offers great views of the entire area and the smog of Mexico City. It would have been fun to fly my Climmax Pro glider up there, but I doubt I could have gotten permission. We met a class of German exchange students from the Alexander von Humboldt Schule and one from nearby Nezahualcoyotl. We hope they will utilize our blog.