Our Drive from Nogales to San Carlos

Getting through the border was easy, no one stopped us. We got waved on.

This is our first (3 in total) Toll Booth on the 250 mile trip to San Carlos. Our greeter, the dog, one of MANY we see on the way. The toll was $133 Pesos (approx. 1=10 ratio) $13. us (2nd = $50 pesos, 3rd = $152 pesos)

It was actually brighter out than the pictures look. The sun did peek out once in while.

This is KM21, our first stop on the way. We are parked in the parking area of the Tourist Visas office. In the distance you can see a small brown roofed building where you must show all vehicle registrations, mexican insurance, passport and birth certificate (I told to make copies of all this !) We went in and the clerk gave us a FMT to fill out, he stamped in and didn't even look at anything and waved us on our way ... easy as pie !
We still had to drive through the check point, but were waved on down the road.

What a mix of land formations ! From sandy deserts to actual treed areas. This is Saugaro Cactus Forest, lined with tall cacti on both sides of the highway for about 1/4 mile.

Weird looking things, wouldn't want to see what lives or crawls around them too closely !!




There were two seperate Army check points, this car being stopped and questioned in fron of us. On the left of us, were more Army officials checking trucks, lots were totally unloaded. I didn't want to get my camera too much into their face, so missed getting more pictures !

Again, we were waved on through.


This is the Truck route throught Hermosillo ! sure glad we didn't take the city route !!

It was Sunday morning, so really no traffic compared to during the week. We were told it can be pretty frantic at times getting through.

I just had to post this picture, we got to the south end of Hermosillo and came to a very congested area. The Prison is on the left and Sunday is visiting day !

Tons of people were coming and going. It reminded me of Christmas shopping at the mall and trying to find a parking place !

This Toll Highway is a divided highway, but with no shoulders at all. This semi driver did something wrong. There is a minivan part way underneath his trailer in behind.

Hopefully no one was hurt. We did see two other semi's off the road, all with trailers backed onto them unloaded its cargo.

We took our time driving, but there were some that did go just to fast. There are places in the hwy with some large pot holes !

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