Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 70

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 70

Mexico 

3/12/09 – Puebla – Tepanampa Pyramid 

Traffic On Downtown Side Street

Today Sam and I are on our own for the whole day!  We plan to get our papers notarized and faxed to the bank. We then plan to walk to the ruins that are located here in Cholula, under the big yellow cathedral on the hill right behind us.  Well you can see it behind us. It is a little bit of a walk away. 

Model Of Church Built On Top Of Ruins

Picture Of Church On Top Of Ruins

As we are leaving the RV Park, I see Judy and Dennis getting ready to pull out with their rig.  I stop to talk to them, only to discover it is not Judy and Dennis at all, but a couple that belong to the other caravan.  I talk with them for about two minutes and we head out. We start off by going back to VIPS for breakfast (don’t want to hurry and lose that feel of Mexico).  We also thought we could find a taxi there.  We order and our waitress looks a little concerned – not sure why. We must look important.  She has an English-speaking waitress confirm our order.  This waitress is good.  She gets Sam to open up and she finds out we are looking for a notary.  She gives us directions – in writing – addressed to a taxi driver.  Then she says she has a friend who is a taxi driver, who she calls and we meet Victor. Victor is great.  He used to live in New York.  He has a 16-year-old daughter that is in Germany at the moment – with her marching band, touring Germany and then Spain.  His 18-year-old son is in University.  Go figure. Victor takes us around to several Notario Publicos, who are like lawyers in the US.  In other words we got the runaround everywhere we went.  Victor was great – but not a miracle-worker.  We had to say good-bye to him and had him drop us off at the ruins.  We had wasted most of the day, but had some fun doing it.

Following Sam Under And Through The Ruins

Sam Climbing Pyamid

We buy our tickets and begin our self-tour of the Tepanampa ruins by visiting the small museum attached to them.  It is a very nice museum and has a lot of the information provided in English.  One of the things it explained in great detail was the non-Spanish languages spoken in Mexico. Once we finished poking around the museum, Sam convinced me to enter another deep, dark hole in the ground.  This one goes through the pyramid.  Through it! The passageway was the one archeologists built when they first entered the pyramid.  We only had one clear path through the structure, but we checked out several side paths that led back to the main one. Several blocked paths headed lower or higher then ours and were totally black.  Sam probably would have been off exploring if he’d only remembered his Indy hat, and then only if he could have pried himself free of my grip.  Sam enjoyed it and I was glad I went through it.  We buy another drum and some whistles.  Sam climbed the outside of this pyramid. We try to walk back to the RV Park, since we can see this mountain from there.  Turns out we are turned around and after walking, walking some more and even asking for directions (do not know what the traffic policeman said), we find a cab and get home. 

Dark Tight Spaces Not Good

The wagon master – Connie and Dave – provide a dinner this evening at the palapa in the RV Park. While we were eating, a massive thunder and lightening storm suddenly appeared.  The lights flickered, but not much more than usual.  The big-drop rainstorm did not hang around. Good time with good people.