Monday, March 26, 2007

3/26: Guanajuato to San Miguel de Allende

Sunday in Guanajuato wasn't terribly inspiring. We slept poorly in our hotel room, with a terrible bed and a little too warm (mainly because if we opened the window we'd get a really bad sewage smell).

We wandered around, including through the market, then down into town. Nothing of interest until that evening, when we went across town for an internet cafe (one was across the street from our hotel, but it was closed on Sunday). Anyhow, access was slow, and then we ran into the Internet Cafe Nazi. He was angry I was downloading at 12kB/s, their DNS server was flaking out, then when the ethernet cable they gave me was falling out of the switch, he went nuts that I plugged it back in. What?

After a restless second night in Guanajuato, we got on the road and went to San Miguel de Allende. It's only about 65 miles, so it was pretty easy. We came into town for the hostel we wanted, had a pleasant trip through town, then spent some time at the hostel decompressing from our bad days in Guanajuato.

Tomorrow Tamara is going to look at a jewelry-making school. If she goes into that, we'll probably stick around here for about two weeks. Otherwise we'll probably just stay a couple days.


Comments:
re:jewelry school... reminds me of an episode of lonely planet with the fabulous Justine sketching out silver jewelery in a tiny town in mexico to have custom made that afternoon. Wonder if this is the same town? Seemed to be alot of silver activity and casting.

Anyway, very cool stuff to check out! Plus the bonus points of getting to say: oh, this? I made it in Mexico on Sabatical...
 
Welcome to the area. My wife and I have been living in Irapuato, Guanajuato for the past nine months and love it down here.

I have been without a motorcycle since we arrived but will be picking one up in Phoenix, AZ in May and riding it back down. I am really looking forwarrd to the trip and your travel log only makes me look forward to it that much more.

Have a wonderful journey.
 
Guanajuato is a beautiful town. Too bad poor hotel choice made you leave too soon without really seeing the interesting parts.
 
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