The drive to Mexico City was arguably the best part. We drove through major cities Chilpancingo which is the capital of the state I live in, Guerrero and Cuernavava, Morelos which is one of several places known in Mexico as the "city of eternal spring". It's generally about 70 degrees and springtime temperatures there and in the surrounding areas we found.

Mexico has no shortage of mountains and that is one of my favourite features here.

These were speckled among the route, ramps filled with gravel there to stop cars and trucks with bad brakes. Something I never considered until I first ended up in a mountainous place is how hard the hills are on vehicles. It's not uncommon for brakes to go out especially on trucks so having these things around for them to stop safely without diving off the side of a cliff is nice.

I don't remember how many cable bridges like this we went over but there were several. We also went through tunnels of various types, something I had never even done in the United States. The first tunnel I remember going through has been in Mexico, fairly recently.

If you look in the centre you can see a monument a bit off the ways from the road.

Not a bad view, worth carting the camera around my neck for like 12 hours to share.

For some reason I'm always a fan of a lone cactus in a forest.

What I found interesting was even in the places that reminded me most of Southern Oregon there were cactus' to be found. I'm not sure there's really much of any part of Mexico that doesn't have even a few species around.

Every so often you could turn back if needed, obviously we kept on.

There's a handwritten sign in the corner of that government sign letting you know there's pollo asado ahead and considering there wasn't anything else around they were doing hungry people a big favor.

Cactus!

This was a short tunnel but what's cool is there was some sort of strucuture on top which likely has an incredible view, you can see it if you look closely in the next picture.

See it? It's between two dark green trees.

After Chilpancingo came Cuernavaca which we honestly didn't see much of. For reference, on the way home we broke down about a half hour outside of Cuernavaca headed towards Chilpancingo.