Action! So we thought we were gonna
come back from Ajijic and get all caught up on our videos. We were there for a
week, we really enjoyed our time, but we Were getting behind because each video
was taking 24 to 48 hours to upload. And not only that, but we also spent more
time like doing things rather than like editing. Yes, very true. And we still have
videos from Ajijic that we have not yet Showed you, so be on the lookout for
those. Well, what just happened? [Laughter] We got back from Ajijic To Guadalajara on Saturday, and that very same day we're like "Ah crap, we need to Leave for the border immediately." So
instead of being able to get caught up, We went into panic planning mode. We were like "Okay, we have to go to the border, we Have to get Airbnbs, we have to find
someone to watch Laska." All these different things. So, that is what
immediately took place, and since then it Has been a complete whirlwind. We have,
coming up for you, multiple encounters with the federales. And yes we do mean
federales, not state police, not municipal police, not traffic cops. Thankfully, not
traffic cops. They're kind of annoying. [Laughter] Should we tell them where we went? Where we're at? Well, right now we're in Zacatecas. Zacatecas! Hopefully we're saying that right. And if we aren't, I don't care because that's a fun word to say. [Laughter] And we have also driven over, what? Like 20 hours in the past three days. Almost 2000 miles.
We've been to Laredo, and everywhere in between. Mexican Consulate. The Mexican
Consulate, we've been in three Airbnbs, And just barely gotten enough time there
to get some shut-eye. There were so many moving parts to this, where after we
realized that we needed to head to the border, each piece kind of made it to
where we couldn't plan in advance. So we could have gotten Airbnbs, but if one
thing went wrong, then we might have to cancel it and lose Cancel and lose our money on that. Yeah, lose money, so There was a lot up in the air in this.
And we are going to show you all of that! By the way guys, thank you so much to
everyone who has signed up on Airbnb and taken a trip! These past few days were
completely crazy, but because you guys Did that, it gave us a little bit of
credit that we were able to use for this. So, what might have
been a super expensive, stressful - Well, it's still been a stressful trip. But
what might have been a very expensive trip that we needed to take back to the
border, was much less so. Thank you so much! Of you haven't signed up on Airbnb
yet, please look in our description at the link, and you'll get 40 bucks off
your first trip of $75 or more. Which could be like a week somewhere, if you
wanted. And yeah, that gives us a little bit of credit. And we really really
appreciate that! Helps us continue traveling. So let's get to it. So we have
a toll road coming up right here. There's a sign that says "Prepare su cuota," prepare your payment. We're gonna see another sign coming up to see how
much it is. We're taking an eight-hour drive today, and we looked up to see how
much the tolls were gonna be, and it said 677 pesos. However, we did already pass one that was out of service and everyone just drove
through, and we're hoping for protests, Which, when that happens, there's people
standing all over the toll on all sides, Hooting and hollering, waving things. And
they're like telling you "Go! Go! Go!" Wxcept in Spanish. Yes. The first time we saw this, I
seriously thought it was a trap. I did too. I thought they were
like trying to get people to go through, So that the police would be waiting on
the other side, and they would arrest you for not paying. Because it just seemed
like... Just people stand out here and they let you go through? I wasn't
thinking it was going to be an "arrest you" Situation. I was thinking it was going to
be a "Pay me a bribe or I'm giving you a ticket for not paying" type thing. But in any case, we did do that. We went through like "Oh my gosh, what are we getting ourselves
into?" But nothing happened. We just went through and we didn't have to pay. So, we're
hoping on this 600+ peso toll Drive, that we're gonna avoid that. But,
whenever you do pull up to these, a lot of times it looks like this with just
crazy crazy backup. This is way more backed up than I've ever seen it though.
We have gone through tons and tons Toll roads. We were told in facebook
groups and things like that, that you Really needed to pay attention to how
much it was, how much cash you gave them, And how much change should be returned. But not to say that that wouldn't ever happen, But it hasn't happened to us. We've given
whatever, like a 200, and then get our change back. It's always been exact change. I really don't feel like this is a place Where scams would happen like that. Maybe that would happen at a gas station. Like That's a common one you hear. But
to us, it's never happened at one of these. And in general, they're usually
cash only. It looks like this time the outside two lanes here, you can pay with
a card. So this particular toll it's a hundred pesos if you're on a motorcycle,
202 pesos if you're driving a car or a truck, and if you're pulling a trailer
it's going to be more. 202? What? 202? Thank you. So it turns out our lane did accept
credit cards. It was weird because they accepted Visa and MasterCard, which is
rare because most places here that accept cards in Mexico that we've come
across only accept Visa. And almost nobody accepts MasterCard, and a few
accept American Express. Very, very few. Emphasis on the few. [Laughter] You get a little Ticket when you go through this
toll booth. Be sure to keep that until you get at least off that road. This, if you
get an accident, the Mexican government is going to pay for all the expenses
that are involved in that. It's basically your insurance. Yes. And then if you ever wind up in a pickle, like us, where You take the wrong road and you have to
go back, if you have that ticket and show them, they'll refund the money and give
you the money for the next - The toll road That you need to get back on. Yeah, that
happened to us once around Guadalajara. We're at another toll booth, and in two
of the three lanes, above it it says "Todas las formas de pago" or
all the forms of payment, so in those two lanes you can use a card. In the other lane, You have to use cash. We're in the other
lane, so we're gonna have to pay 167, Ciento seisenta y siete. Good afternoon. How are you? Good afternoon. 167, please. Thank you. 333. 333 pesos of change. Thank you. See you later. Have a good trip! So pretty painless. To be honest, this was one of the things that we were most nervous about when we first started
our travels. And now, it's just La-dee-da, Going through another toll booth. And
when we have gone to an ATM recently We have stacks of 500 peso bills that a
lot of places don't have change for. But in a toll booth, even if it's a small
toll, you can still pay with a 500 peso, And they won't blink an eye. Yeah. So if
you need change, it's a great time to do it. So we may or may not be in Guanajuato, the state, right now. And within, I don't know, like 15 minutes of driving we
saw these herds of sheep, Bahhh! Which I've never ever in my life seen real-life
sheep being herded across a field before. By a human? By a human, yes. Those are called Shepherds. I know that. [Laughter] Thank you. Hello, good afternoon. Buenas tardes. Alright, this was another toll. This time, 51 pesos. Here we are at another toll booth. Hello, good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you. Have a good day. And this toll cost 62 pesos. Paid with a 500 and got all this change! You know how valuable this stuff is! [Laughter] Oh yeah! The small bills. Right now, we're standing at this super interesting gas station, that's themed
like a Western. Western things. So yeah Let's show you a little bit of that and
then we're back in the car. It's super windy, so I hope that doesn't ruin this. But we've got the sheriff's office right here, salon A bank, or saloon maybe? Salon. Bank. Súper. Horse. Horse! Giant boots. Gordo. Did you check for snakes in your boots? Gordo. The sheriff, we have to take him very seriously! Jail over there, so be careful what you do. But yeah, this is a really cute
stop. We're outside of San Luis Potosi right now, and need to get back in
the car so we don't end up driving at night in Mexico. That is one tip that we
must continually bestow upon you, and it Was bestowed upon us. Don't
drive at night, it's dangerous. Don't do it. Okay, so there's something really really
weird happening. We're driving, to the border, and we're passing through small
towns, small little pueblos, neighborhoods. One was probably the poorest little
village we've seen on all of Mexico. Yeah, I mean it's like probably what some
people think all of Mexico looks like, But houses or shacks, whatever you can
call them, made out of cardboard, or stacked bricks, or mud, literally mud. But
that's not the weird thing. I mean that's that's terrible, but that's not the weird
thing. We're on what? We're on highway 57, north of San Luis Potosi. Maybe 100 or 150 kilometers. So it's pretty much Desert landscape around us. Giant
mountains on one side, Joshua trees everywhere. That's what we know them
as, I don't know what it is in Spanish. But what we're passing is all of
these places that say "Café" something. Most of them are people's names after
them. Yeah. It's too many! Like dozens of them as we're going through
these places. Yeah, like it's just a small town, and
there's maybe a hundred buildings alongside this highway, and 90 of them
are cafes. They say Cafe and then a name. We can't figure out what it is. Our best
guess is that maybe this is some indication For people passing through that they can
come in. Like they'll serve you coffee if you want to buy it from their house or
something? But we didn't see a single car in front of any of them. Granted, there's not a whole lot of traffic on this road in the first place.
But really weird because all of these little patches of houses and buildings,
they all say cafe. You had another idea what it might be. Yeah, another guess of
mine was maybe there is some type of tax On houses, but there aren't on
businesses, so then they put cafe on the front of their house. Because these
look like houses. So they put Cafe Maria or something on the side of their
house, and then suddenly it's a business. So we're confused, maybe you guys know if
there's some... If it's like a joke, or a tradition, or it has to do with taxes,
or something. Help us out in the comments because we're just completely stumped!
We've never seen anything like this! Yeah it's super, super strange! Hello, good afternoon. 26. 26? Thank you. Alright, and another tool for 26 pesos. Good afternoon. What do you do for a living? Say that again, please. Okay, so we didn't talk about the
situation at all after this happened Because we were a little bit shaken up
and we had to continue driving. But after reviewing what he said, and he's saying a
A qué se dedican? Like, what do you do for living? What do you do for work? We're
kind of wondering, are they actually asking like how we have this car?
Like how do we afford to be driving or something like that? So curious to know
what you guys think that might be about, Because that actually happened another
time, later on in our trip, where they were asking the same question. And so
we're kind of curious, what the best way to answer this would be? Or what they
might actually be getting at by asking this, because that doesn't totally seem
like a normal question in the U.S. But maybe not, I don't know. We, in the u.s. I
never dealt with police or military as much as I have in Mexico. So, maybe you
guys can help us out with that. Can you put the window down? Are you on vacation? Yes. Go ahead. Thank you. Also, when he made us roll down the window in the back, We rolled it down and he saw one suitcase. We only had two, they're small
carry-on sized suitcases, so there wasn't really much to search. Which I'm sure is
why they didn't, and that's why, when he asked, Are you here on vacation? We said
yes. No, we're actually not here on Vacation, we live here. But if that meant
we could get out of there faster, it seemed like the appropriate thing to say,
and so we did. Hello, good afternoon. 62 for this toll! This drive is
taking a toll on me. I need to stretch! 8 hours of driving one day, bleh! No, it's been more than that. Yeah. This drive is taking longer. I feel like we've Mentioned this before, but when Google
Maps says something's going to take, say eight hours, expect it to take like nine
and a half. Unless you're going the Speed that other cars are going, but
even so, like we're going well over the speed limit. Like it'll say 80 and
we're going 95 or 100. And everyone else is flying by! Yeah. I'd like to err on the side of caution, and maybe some Streets are the case where it's 80 in the
right lane and 100 in the other. So that it's sort of acceptable if you go 110 in
the left one or 90 in the right one or something like that. But I don't want to
give anyone any reasons that they can pull us over. So we don't get in any
tricky situations like that. But, in Our experience, whenever we're driving, it
can be anywhere from like an hour more than the Google Maps estimate to an hour and a half, two hours. And then sometimes there's construction that even Google
Maps doesn't know about. But overall, so far, They've been pretty nice roads. We've had
some stretches where it was a little rougher. And the biggest pothole we have
ever seen, thankfully we didn't hit it. The car would've been totaled. We probably would have lost a tire at the very least. Yeah. We got a flat tire (Jokingly, in Spanish, because it's a phrase we just learned.) [Laughter] When you've been driving way too long... So we are staying... Are you here? [Laughter] We are staying one night in Saltillo. Saltillo! I'm not even going to try to pronounce the name of the State that it's in. [Laughter] Outside of Monterrey. Because we are Heading to the border and we needed a
halfway point. We spent 10 hours driving today, which was supposed to be about 8
hours. [Laughter] But we're leaving the light amount of driving for tomorrow. We're right
near Centro here in Saltillo, and there's this gorgeous cathedral behind
us! It's so ornate! So many details carved Into the stone! Yeah. Every
time I see a cathedral, I think "Wow, this is the most beautiful one I've ever seen!" I think this is the prettiest one yet! They all have such character. And There's something going on in the town
square. Music, kids doing choreographed dances. So I don't really know what we
walked into. It's a Monday. Monday night. So, we're going to walk around and see what's up. We're walking past all of these booths with jewelry, clothing, artesanias of course. Very
typical of Mexico. And we came up to some pan de elote! My favorite. What's pan de elote? This is corn bread. But just corn, no glutens. So I could have it. This giant thing was 25
pesos. So we have had pan de elote before, but this stuff is way different! So I don't know if it's Made differently in northern Mexico or what? But it has whole pieces of corn in there, mixed into the bread. I really like this stuff! I love it! It has more like an actual corn taste to it. And texture too, which is cool! [Live music playing] It's raining now, so we're gonna wrap
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