Since the last blog post, the desert has been replaced by beaches and Palm trees. A lot has happend and time flies when having fun, so let me take you on the road trip from Ciudad Juárez to Cuauthémoc! Onto the next adventure…

Before we go on this journey in stories, lets introduce the amazing travel company existing out of Pam’s boyfriend Alex who comes from Cuauthémoc (one of the upcoming destinations), Misael whom I met the other night in Juárez, and of course Pam and I are part of the crew! Everyone, except for me, is an engineer and everyone, including me, loves a good time, an interesting discussion and is definitely up for the holiday!!! Later we would also have Mario join the team but we will meet him at the airport in Chihuahua.

On Saturday morning we left Ciudad Juárez in the Alex’s truck-like car to start the roadtrip to Cuauthémoc. Juárez was the city of industries, basketball, elote en vaso, carne seca, deserts, Margaritas and much more. Without even a mention in my tourist guide, I must say that I really loved Juárez as my first introduction to Mexico! On our way out of the city we saw the unfortunate scene of a crash where a car was literally split into… Aiii the straight roads through the desert fascinated me and after 20minutes I realised that the scenery wasn’t really changing…. Only the mountains ranges appeared and disappeared again at the horizon. After about an hour we arrived at our first stop in Burrito Town !!!! (I forgot the official name hihi) Apparently this town (or rather village) only exists because of the trainstation that was build for the industrial trains. The town became well know for its Burritos and cheese and that is also about everything you can find there hahaha. So naturally we had to get the og Mexican burrito and I must say, my taste buds fell in love, again hihi. 

We left Burrito town for a longer drive to the city of Chihuahua. While driving I made a couple of notes of what I saw, I guess they will best paint the picture of the road trip: Cacti & Desert

Ghehe okay… I did note a couple of more things down hahaha but in general yea… Deserts stretch out far and wide. With the occasional cows and horses it formed the perfect scene for Western movies with the beautiful mountains in the distance. We did see some interesting things on the journey and Misael knew a lot of little facts to share about Mexico. We passed many little ruins of houses next to the empty train tracks. These houses date back to a hundred years ago and now form the spooky towns one might expect in the desert. At one point there was, after an hour of nothingness, a random supermarket in-between the two roads which made us wonder where the staff of the place might sleep… We also discussed that Mexico has both Dutch and Belgium roads next to each other haha after I told them how you could feel the quality of roads change when crossing the border. For a big part of the journey there were these little white fluffy snowballs next to the roads… Apparently the cotton fields in the desert have had some windy days and the cotton now flew through the air and around roads like snow. When we came closer to Chihuahua, the landscape changed a bit. There were more trees and the grass looked a bit golden and softer on the hills. When I described it as furry hills the others had to laugh but honestly I felt the urge to stroke the soft looking hills. One more thing I saw and found secretly cool and sad was a dead coyote next to the road… Wildlife lover as I am, I think I do have to accept that this is probably  the closest to and safest way of seeing a wild coyote in Mexico desert.

We arrived in Chihuahua and went for some drinks and snacks before we made our way into the city centre. It sounds maybe stupid but Mexico is way more European than I thought… As in, the city centres have the beautiful Mexican characteristics and are as well developed as any city in the west sorta. I felt a bit ashamed of picturing it maybe in another way… Anyhow, the typical setup for a centre in Mexico is a cathedral with a plaza. On the plaza is a kiosk and trees and benches and around this picturesque place you will find tons of shops. The big as Mexican sombreros might be a tourist thing but fact is, most men around here wear cowboy boots and hats and the wooden stands to get those boots polished complete the movie like picture. The city of Chihuahua is the birthplace of the little doggies but unfortunately we haven’t been able to see them in the wild… After a lovely dinner in the city we went on our last part of the journey to Cuauthémoc. 

Alex is from Cuauthémoc and we would be staying at his family’s old house in the centre but before going there, we were visiting his parents and brother and sister and…. Cuddle the puppy Rosita!!!!! We were welcomed by the two parent doggos and Alex’s parents in a beautiful house in the Mennonite area outside of the city centre. As has been the case throughout my trip, everyone is very enthusiastic to feed me hahaha and so the local Mennonite cheese and sausage was put on the table with toast, tomatoes, salsa, mustard and home made cookies. A glass of home made wine and another one from the region accompanied the very tasty food eaten right from the table. The communication proceeded half Spanish and half English with occasional translations and before we knew it we reached midnight and everyone was ready for bed. 

The next days will be filled with discovering the Mennonite culture and making our way to the airport. I’m a bit behind with my writings but fear not, they will be posted in the next couple of days. I can promise many more adventures to read about 😉 

Adiós

Ps. The photos have now been added to the previous blog 😉