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Copan and D&D Brewery

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We knew that Semana Santa (week long Easter celebration) in Latin America would be a crazy, crowded week, full of parties late into the evening, closed businesses and intense traffic, some of it impaired by too many Easter cervezas. Everyone we consulted advised that we would be smart to find somewhere quiet to hang out for the week and to stay off of the roads. But we thought the week began on Good Friday. We found out at the last hostel that the week actually begins the weekend prior to Good Friday, leaving us only one week to make plans as to where to stay before Semana Santa celebrations started.

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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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Oaxaca and Monte Alban

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Oaxaca (pronounced Wa-ha-ka) is both a state in Mexico and the capital city of the state.  We drove through some beautiful high mountain terrain to Oaxaca city.  The roads were quite good, if not all the drivers.  I have dash cam video of two cars, a semi and a pickup truck, all shoulder to shoulder trying to pass each other, going up hill and around a corner…..again, wish I had the internet power to upload the video, maybe one day.

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Making our way to our AirBnB

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We had an AirBnb condo reserved for December 30th at Lake Chapala.  We’d paid for the campsite in San Miguel until the 28th….should we pay for another couple of days?  Should we hit the road?  If so, where would we go?  We had seen most of the places we had wanted to see and many more, but we were getting itchy feet…..we needed a plan.

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Coasting along.

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We ended up staying five nights at Lo de Marcos, we just couldn’t pull ourselves away from the beach and the town.  It was so easy to stay.  Every day or so a man would come by with a truck full of vegetables for sale, and one day two pretty young women quickly talked Derek into buying some fresh lobster, which we cooked up that night for dinner.

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Ruta de Rio Sonora and beef ribs by the river

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The lesser known Ruta de Rio Sonora is a tourist route along a road built in the 1970’s to connect colonial towns along the Rio Sonora.  Most of the towns were established in the 1600’s, the earliest we saw was in the late 1500’s, and before the road was built people would travel on the river bed and banks to get from one town to the other.  The area is rich in history, with old mission churches and ranch lands that have been in the works for centuries.  The Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (unfortunate name…Cabeza de Vaca means cow head) followed the Rio Sonora in the 1500’s, as did the Coronado expeditions of 1540.

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