Changing Hotels

Today is Tuesday. We had hoped to go on a rock climbing route referred to Via Ferrata. Was going to be one of the highlights of the trip; however, the weather has not been cooperating with us! It has rained almost all day. Since it was a bad day for activities we decided that we would take the opportunity to change our hotel a day early. We checked out of the Holiday Inn and we are now at the Cola de Caballo in San Tiago, Mexico. A much nicer hotel with quite a bit more space!

We also met a very nice gentleman from England today. His name is Evan Jenkins. He is up here for the Rendezvous as well. When we met up with Evan we decided we would see if we could go do Chipitin canyon that is not too far from the hotel. Evan had rented a vehicle that was an AWD (all-wheel drive). Unfortunately, we really need a 4x4 to get to where we needed as the AWD Dodge Evan had rented kept spinning its wheels. We were so close!!

The drive out to Chipitin is BEAUTIFUL!! The road is crazy! Very rocky, very steep in places, very narrow, and in certain sections if we were to slip off the road we would plummet to our deaths in the canyon below. After we back tracked out of Chipitin (we will do this canyon later in the week), we went off-road exploring the area. We came across some beautiful country here in Monterrey. To the left, you can see Heather as we were exploring some of the nearby country. Note the rain coat. The weather would clear up with the sun poking through the clouds almost like it was about to clear up and then moments later, a slow constant drizzle. Not very pleasant.

David's highlight of the day was playing around with the peacocks and geese that roam the hotel grounds. I am not sure what he is doing in the first picture but I think it is some sort of challenge he is giving the peacocks...like them showing off their tail feathers I think David is showing off his biceps! Looking at the second picture below you can be the judge of who won the contest of showing off their superiority!!