Hound Dog
Apr 11, 2009, 9:03 AM
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Well, OK, I realize that Angangueo is in Michocan State that is in west central Mexico but this is about our trip from Chiapas to Lake Chapala via Oaxaca and is essentially a story about getting from one place to the other still alive so here goes.
In order to drive from Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca to Ajijic on Lake Chapala one must be prepared to grind out about 13 hours or more of driving including some time navigating through urban conurbations from Oaxaca de Juarez to the outskirts of Puebla City to the interior circuit of the Federal District so this is a serious undertaking and, while it seemed to me that this journey could be accomplished in one arduous day, we did not leave Teotitlan until 9:30AM CDT and so the journey became somewhat complicated and we searched for a place the other side (west) of Mexico City to spend the night since we were driving on a Tuesday and Wednesday was our no-drive day in the district which is really serious stuff and can result in impoundment of your car and some serious fines if yoiu are so foolish as to disregard this local peculiarity so we knew we had to get through the federal district on Tuesday or spend an extra day in that town which is really not a bad town to be stuck in if you get my drift bur we would have rather arrived back in Ajijic if possible since our guest had a flight to Paris booked on Friday so we searched the map of Michoacan, a state I generally find unpleasant and came up with this idea that we should drive off of the cuota and spend the night in the mysterious town of Angangueo in Michoacan near the border with the State of Mexico and that we did and I must admit that Angangueo is one hell of an interesting mining town high in the sierra nestled in a fabulously beautiful pine forest beyond anything you would expect to find in the generally boring state of Michoacan and we stayed there in a rustic but great hotel and the drive through this charming if obviously desperately poor city was worth the diversion from the Mexico City-Guadalajara toll road.
I swear to God that James Dicky hissef could not have written a better piece than what he wrote about Northern Georgia when he wrote Deliverence but despite the fact that most of the folks living up there looked as if they could participate in "Dueling Banjos", a nicer and more congenial and intelligent group of folks would be hard to find anywhere. I recommend a day trip to this fantastic and charming town unequivocally.
(This post was edited by Hound Dog on Apr 11, 2009, 9:11 AM)
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