Day 3, 3/4/04. Real de Catorce to San Luis Potosi, SLP

After breakfast with Humberto, we headed down the mountain and around to the west to try a different road south. Sometimes you win, and, well….unfortunately, the road turned to dirt after a bit and we spent about 30 miles researching the efficiency of AC microfilters. The HIGHLIGHT of this trip (sorry, we were too dumbfounded to take a picture) was that 1) a COYOTE crossed the road and then he was followed by a 2) ROADRUNNER! We are not kidding!! Astounding! Although we were stuck on a dirt road, we were smiled upon by the Looney Toons god! We then crossed into the tropics at the Tropic of Cancer (known as the torrid zone in these parts)-see photo of the great marker.

We got into San Luis Potosi for a late lunch and called our friend Alejandro Jimenez. Alex was not home, so we left a message with his son Paco and sat down to eat. Not a minute after ordering, here comes Alex and Paco, saying "Get UP!! Let's GO!!!" We had not even told Paco where we were…it was incredible! I asked Alex how he found us and all Alex would say is "This is my town….you can't hide here!" So off we went to join his wonderful wife Lupita for a delicious lunch, a quick tour of their home and their fantastic MINI museum, then off to see most of his MINI collection (the Mini race cars were in Mexico City at the time.) They have a brand new 2000 classic Mini, a classic Mini pickup, a classic Mini woody Wagon, another GORGEOUS classic red Mini, and his new red Cooper and grey Cooper S MINIs, as well as a rare Mini MIDAS. WOW!

We spent the evening touring San Luis Potosi together (what a beautiful colonial city), then had a fantastic feast at one of Alex's favorite restaurants, and finally, about midnight, retired to our own private bedroom at the Jimenez home. What a day, incredibly busy, what a pace! (Little did we know that this was indicative of the rest of this trip!!)

This family COULD NOT have treated us any better. Alex and Lupita and their sons Sergio and his wife Lise, Edgar, and Paco (not to leave out Morris, the family poodle) have to be one of the sweetest families in existence. We were made to feel completely at home in their home from the minute we arrived…they accepted us with open arms. How did we ever get so lucky?

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