Plans change, but we adapt and move on...

We had been looking forward to a visit from Ruth's cousin Helen and her husband Tony. They were scheduled to arrive here in mid January and stay with us in the motorhome for two and a half weeks. They live in England, and have never been to Mexico and we were really looking forward to showing them the real Mexico...the one outside of the tourist havens and all inclusive resorts.

But last week, Helen broke her leg.

Doctors say she won't be going anywhere in an airplane for three months. So our plans with them quickly went down the drain. Now, we're hoping to meet up with them somewhere in the U.S. on our way back to Canada in late March or early April. Which will still be fun, but not quite the same as what we had planned.

Oh well...can't change what has already happened, so just have to make the best of it.

So now, we've got some extra time on our hands.

This is Bruno, the owner's dog here at the marina. Big head, no brains. Still, he's a friendly fellow!

Our plans with the RV caravan still don't change. So we still need to be in Guanajuato for February 4th. But Guanajuato is not that far away. It's only about 360 kms (223 miles) and could be done in one day if we really wanted to. But, there are some places we want to see along the way and we could easily stretch that 360 kms into a two week drive!

And we're still going to stay right where we are for the time being. We're enjoying just doing nothing for a change. Yesterday, we told our friend Chago who owns the marina here that we might stay for two weeks or we might stay for a month. In all honesty, we're thinking we'll head out of here January 7th which is the day after Three Kings Day, and we think it's also when the children go back to school here. But again, we'll see how we feel.

The marina where we are parked up. You can see Sherman on the far right.

But that still leaves a bit of a gap. So we're looking at the map and trying to decide where else we could visit that's not too far out of the way. Gasoline is fairly pricey right now in Mexico...in fact it's more expensive than Canada for the first time that we can remember. So we dont want to go too far off course. 

There are 32 states in Mexico. More accurately, 31 states and the Distrito Federal, which is Mexico City. We have been to 30 of them. So, two to go. Queretero, and Tlaxcala. We are going to be heading for Queretero City when we leave here, so that will cross another one off.

(Edit: Correction...looking back at where we have and haven't been, it is the states of Hidalgo and Tlaxcala that we have never visited. We were actually in Queretero on the way down here. Don't know what I was thinking!)

That leaves the state of  Tlaxcala, which is a very small state, located just east of Mexico City. We'll make it there one day!

Ruth and Sherman.

Another beautiful sunset.

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