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Campeche

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Campeche is the capital city of the Mexican state by the same name. The city was founded by the Spanish in the 1500’s on top of an existing Maya village, but they kept getting attacked by pirates and buccaneers (familiar names like Francis Drake, Henry Morgan and Jean Lafitte are just a few of the sea captains and privateers who attacked the city) so in the late 1600’s they built a wall to surround the city. Much of the original wall is still intact, and the rest has been restored.

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Guanajuato

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(I am experimenting with larger format pictures in this post…let me know if this causing issues with loading the pages, if so, I will revert to the smaller sized photos.)

We arrived in Guanajuato to a warm welcome from a friend of Derek’s who, after falling in love with and marrying a beautiful Mexican woman, has moved to the city.  David and Claudia have a great home and a wonderful family, and it was our great pleasure to stay with them while we explored their city.

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Tequisquiapan

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We were due in Guanajuato on the 20th of December, and we had a few days to kill.  We looked on the map and in our guide books and decided to head to Tequisquiapan for 2 days.  It had once been a place with many thermal baths but we had read that the water was not really warm anymore, due to a local paper mill’s water consumption.  Neither of us were expecting much from the town, but we had found a place to camp through an internet search, and thought we would check it out.

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No salt shaker required!

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We woke up on the side of Tequila Volcano, having slept really well in the cool mountain air.  We took our time getting packed up for the day, knowing we had only a short drive into town.  The morning in Tequila was spent looking after a few chores; we filled up our water tank with agua purificada, we spent an hour in the laundromat (clean clothes!!!!), and looked for a place to park the truck and camper for the evening.  We were planning on sampling some tequila, actually a lot of tequila, and we didn’t want to have to move the truck later.  We asked at one hotel with courtyard parking if we could camp there, but they were going to be full for the night and didn’t have room for us.   We asked about the safety of camping on the streets, and were assured that it was perfectly safe.  We ended up parking the truck on a dead end street surrounded by nice homes, and headed out for the day.

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