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By Terry Sayther

Thu, Oct 14, 04

Transit day in which we moved our bodies and cars south from Saltillo over the most boring, straight, flat, desert highway to San Luis Potosi. Early in the day, as we went up the mountain from Saltillo, the 1800 started making a bunch of noise, which we were able to correct after jacking up the car on the side of the road and replacing some missing bolts. We crossed the Tropic of Cancer and officially entered the tropics, and somewhere around there we took a break beside the road where local desert dwellers showed us captured hawks, snakes, and other small birds and animals.
We arrived in SLP in the late afternoon to the joyous greetings of the Jimenez family. Edgar Jimenez has been living with us for a few months, and his father, mother, and brothers were overjoyed to see him. Alex took us on a tour of the downtown historic district, and then we went to a press conference where our pictures were taken 101 times and we were interviewed for the local newspaper and television. Then we returned to the Jimenez home for a late night supper and a fiesta in our honor. All the rest of the Pirates partied till dawn while Terry and Debbie saved their energy by going to bed at midnight.

Fri, Oct 15, 04

Up and at 'em! Surprisingly, some of the Pirates did not want to get up and at 'em, but we were able to hit the road again by the stroke of noon. Just north of Mexico City, we cleverly avoided entering the city madhouse by diverting ourselves east onto the world's worst, most crowded back roads. We eventually got over to Teotihuacan, one of the MOST famous pyramid sites in all of the world. This area is also famous for building the largest speed bumps (topes) possible---probably the descendants of the pyramid builders. The 1800 sedan high-centered on every single tope. The exhaust system now has an oval cross-section where it once had round…

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