Today i headed inland from the coast.Having to cross a solid mountain range was awesome.The temperature dropped dramatically which was a nice change from the heat of the last four weeks,my eyebrowes hav gone blonde from all the sun.I was so high up i put my hand out the window and literally touched the clouds.The villages were peacefull looking but the ravines and drop-offs to the rivers were the opposite,during that part of the trip we passed three landslide site's where the earth covered the road,im actually more scared of landslides than anything over here.Once getting accross the mountain range we hit a platau and saw the first desert landscape of mexico,finally.I previously pictured all of mexico to look like desert with big cacti and realised i have had this picture in my head since watching roadrunner as a kid,Remember the backdrops to that cartoon,big mountains in the desert with no shrubbery but onlt the odd cactus plant,well thats what i had imagined (and upon telling others i worked out im not the only one),anyway the pacific coast of mexico i have seen has been anything but desert,especially now the rain season has hit.The farmers still do it tough here,i have even seen workers cutting the roadside grass with a machete.
I passed the town where mescal is mass produced for all of mexico and the world,it was just a town of cacti,roadside stops filled with mescal and more v-dubs.It made my stomach drop whan i saw so much mescal.
Then after somehow taking a major wrong turn,we reached oaxaca city after about 7 hours of driving.The entry to the city was beautiful with huge mountains on all sides of the city.I felt as if it was a welcome to the real mexico as the spots i have been are gringo infested and developed for westerner's.
