Nogales,AZ to Obrego , Sonora and it was a crappy day!

 We were up at 6:30 this morning.  Packed up and then breakfast.  The Hotel Americana has always had the best breakfast...not today.  The lights over the food were either out or working at half power and the food wasn't hot. Not good and I informed the desk.  It was -2c this morning.

We left at 7:15 and we we're through the border after a quick check of registrations by a young Mexican guard who didn't seem to know what she was looking at.  We followed the convoluted route out.

At km 21 it was busy and we stood outside in the cold for about 25 minutes. Inside to fill out the tourist visas with ONE clerk working the desk.

Next importation and the same issues as last year "the trucks GVW is in the commercial zone as it's a 3/4 ton.  Pictures to take, get printed, aduana or customs guy who didn't know what he was supposed to look for went out and checked the VIN to the paperwork.  Finally done after 2 hours.  It was so easy when we hot it done in San Luis out of Yuma before the stupid over 1/2 ton GVW thing started.

Topes or speed humps heading south so watch out.

Can you see the mattresses on top of that vehicle?😁 Tons of Mexicans with trucks loaded with bicycles etc. heading south.

Nice day but the new concrete highway is bumpy as hell.

Before Hermisillo lots of grapes.  At this point I decided I should book a room at the Fiesta in Navojoa as it's Friday and the traffic was heavy. Usually we just stop and easily get a room.  Nope..full as was every motel in Navojoa.  So I started on Obregon  and the first one was full too.  Finally got us a room at the Quality Inn in Obregon. It took a couple of hours on the cell.

Working on the Guaymas bypass

As we got closer to Vicam the wind picked up and the agricultural dust was thick.

It was dusty all the way into Obregon.  We followed Google maps through the center of town right to the motel.  We pulled in with the cargo trailer not  knowing how tight the parking was.  The parking lot guy helped but it took half an hour for to turn it around in a tight space...good thing Eric knows what he's doing.  We tipped the very nice worker 100 pesos.  No ice machine so he trotted off and found me ice for our cooler which is full of butter and cheese 😋 

The highway was really busy today as were the toll booths and I'm guessing the Veterans Day stat in the USA may be part of it as people headed south.   I found a decent room but no fridge or microwave which is odd.  So..leftover cold lasagna and salad.  Tomorrow Mazatlan after a long tiring day.

Sorry for all the grumping😁