Waiting at the ticket counter of Transportes San Miguel, I ready for the 20 hour bus ride from Dallas to San Miguel de Allende Mexico. It's an overnight bus ride that leave around 5PM.

Along the route we will pick up friends Drew and Arisbe Fadrowski, our companions on a previous driving tour across Chiapas and Guatemala. We arrive in San Antonio at 10:00PM.

Just across the border south of Laredo, we pull in, stretch and take a pit stop.

Sunrise comes just as the desert terrain that lines the Texas border finally comes to an end. We are now south of Saltillo as we begin to see the mountains.

At around 8AM we encounter one of the sparse "in the middle of nowhere" restaurants along the highway south.

Here we at our 30 minute breakfast stop, we are just 2 hours north of colonial city "San Luis Potosi".

Friend Drew Fadrowski.

Mountain range behind us; freezing in the shadows, warm in the sun. Now in the mountains, the sun feels like flakes of hot pepper on our skin.

Friends Drew and Arisbe. This far south a sweater is required for the cold bus and beginning mountain range.

On the road again. It's me riding shotgun and young friends in the back, a little MP3 action going on between those big cushioned headphones of mine.

We luckily slept through the flatlands and have arrived in the mountains as we near San Luis Potosi. We will be in San Miguell de Allende shortly after noon today.