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Return to Mexico, House Sitting for Mike & Val

Friends Mike and Val have invited us with an email "San Miguel calling". It's an invitation to house-sit for over a month in the beautiful city of San Miguel de Allende, entonces, we jump on the opportunidad!

Date: 05/05/2012
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Waiting for the bus, Marsalis Ave in Oak Cliff, Don Anthony and sister Suzanne anticipate the exciting adventure about to unfold.

Date: 05/05/2012
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Transportes San Miguel is a charter bus directly from Dallas to San Miguel de Allende, MX. The bus makes 4 five minutes stops in Texas and ...

Date: 05/05/2012
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$130 round trip via bus, $750 via air. Thanks but we'll take the bus, for everything else, there is Master Card.

Date: 05/05/2012
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Down below when our turn, we offload all the luggage, run it through customs and then back on the bus.

Date: 05/05/2012
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We wearily step outside the bus to grab some fresh air upwind of the smokers on board. Still this is better than airport security.

Date: 05/05/2012
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This is where all Gringos must go to get their tourist cards. Everyone else remains on the bus until the inspection station.

Date: 05/05/2012
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Overnight we sleep through Saltillo and Monterey, awaking briefly to see the full moon on its closest cycle to earth. The next morning we approach the San Louis Potosi breakfast stop.

Date: 05/06/2012
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While the other passengers indulge, knowing our stomachs are still not acclimated, we opt to eat snacks from home rather than the full breakfast everyone else is enjoying during our 30 min stop here.

Date: 05/06/2012
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Did you sleep on the bus, they might ask? Yes, we did! We awoke this morning to the bus climbing into the mountains as we approach our breakfast stop just outside San Luis Potosi.

Date: 05/06/2012
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The morning air here is divine. You know you are not in Kansas any more when you step off here and feel the sun peppering your skin and the thinner fresh mountain air filling your lungs. You are now in Mexico!

Date: 05/06/2012
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This lady from Longview didn't know a word of Spanish and hung by our side. All she knew that her boyfriend told her to meet him at this lonely 6 building town in the middle of no where somewhere in Central Mexico. And they call us the brave ones!

Date: 05/06/2012
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