On the road to Navojoa, Sonora

 

Time to head home.  We were up early and hooked up and on the toll road by 8:30.  Once again the roundabout route to head north. 

Heading north on the toll road.  Last year we took the free road but..too hard to get there with the north overpass bridge still under construction. 

The Tropic of Cancer just north of Mazatlan.

Spring has sprung and trees are flowering.  Note the nasty pavement on the very expensive toll road.

As we get closer to Culiacan things start to get greener.

Sinaloa is an agriculture state and here you can see Sorghum growing.  Lots of different varieties and it can 2 feet tall to 14 feet tall and everything in between.  A highly nutritious livestock feed.

There are two tolls on the Mazatlan to Culiacan part and both are expensive.  It wouldn't be so hard to swallow if the road wasn't so crappy.  Every year we hope it will get better but it never does.

I still use the "On the Road Again" travel log as we travel and they call this...interesting hills😄

More Sorghum we think.

Did I mention how crappy the pavement is?  😉

However they do keep the drainage ditches nicely painted😂

Pretty isn't it!

And the there are the dreaded topes or speed bumps to slow you down.  Usually unmarked and they can be small or large enough to bend an axle.

North of Gustave and this is tomato country.

I missed the picture of all the huge trucks filled with tomatoes for processing.

Such a pretty tree.

There was a huge amount of truck traffic today and here we're pulling up to an agricultural check point.

This truck had just had a bale of some sort of hay fall off and hit the highway.  They aren't even tied down and the road is so bumpy it's not a wonder it fell of.  Eric passed quickly!

More crappy Sinaloa highway.

Huge processing plants everywhere.

A military check point this time.  See the pink pipe cleaner...well our granddaughter Holly put it there back in 2004 when we bought the truck and it's been travelling with us ever since.  Holly is our oldest grand child and she's presently living and working in Glasgow with boy friend Chris.  She's come home to Terrace for a quick visit and unfortunately we'll miss seeing her😓

Bye bye Sinaloa and hello Sonora where the maxipista or toll road is concrete and smooth...well mostly smooth😉

Sonora roads were horrible in the early days and now they're better than Sinaloa.

Fuel is as high as 28 pesos a litre for diesel which is over $2 Canadian.  When we started coming to Mexico back in 2008 it was 7 pesos a litre. 

The lovely, mostly smooth concrete highway.

Here is a total of today's Sinaloa tolls.  Over 90 dollars canadian to drive on a horrible highway.  Just disgusting.

This isn't stacked much better but at least the road isn't bumpy.

The driver.  On the other side the cacti have started to appear.

Greener and greener.

The Tecate beer brewery.  

Navojoa our first nights stop.

Main Street and a couple of huge trucks decided to go straight  through instead of taking the truck bypass.  A huge amount of stop lights through  town. A very pretty, neat little town.

We stay at the Fiesta at the north end of town.

Right beside it is the brand new Holiday Inn.  We wonder how the town can support the multitude of motels that are here.

We got in around 4:30 and we were a bit later than usual due to the roads, traffic and busy toll booths.  Tucked in with beer, frozen warmed up spaghetti and the bed.  Tomorrow ...the USA border.