We spent our first full day at the RV park doing laundry and maintenance. We hadn’t been anywhere that had both water and drain hookups, so we hadn’t been using our on board washer, and we hadn’t sent the laundry out to be done in over two weeks, so we were due. Tom got the ladder out and went on the roof to figure out the leak, which he finally figured out was not from the escape hatch, but from rivet holes that no longer had rivets from the rail’s run-in with the tree in Merida. Since we travel with tools and caulking, Tom was able to plug the holes, so now we just have to wait for the next rain and hope the leak is fixed. We’ve also used the time to get some desk work done, like blogging.
Once we got the necessary work out of the way, we were able to spend the next few days enjoying the area. We discovered that the RV park is only a mile from the historical town center, so we spent all day Saturday and most of Sunday walking around. We were really glad that we were in town for the weekend, because we again were delighted to see that while the town center is set up for tourists, most of those tourists are Mexicans enjoying their own country.
Once we got the necessary work out of the way, we were able to spend the next few days enjoying the area. We discovered that the RV park is only a mile from the historical town center, so we spent all day Saturday and most of Sunday walking around. We were really glad that we were in town for the weekend, because we again were delighted to see that while the town center is set up for tourists, most of those tourists are Mexicans enjoying their own country.
Cholula is full of churches.
In the central square, we walked around a car show.
We had a traditional lunch of Chiles en Nogada.
We walked to the church which is built on top of a pyramid.
Most of the pyramid is still covered. Apparently they sometimes they open the tunnels, but they weren’t open when we were there.
The view from the top of the pyramid at the church is spectacular.
On Monday, we decided we had some administrative stuff to get done, like finding insurance for the US. We thought it could maybe just possibly be as simple as calling Progressive and giving them our credit card number but, alas, nothing is ever that easy. Instead, Tom spent close to six hours on the phone calling every insurance company, every insurance agent recommended by everyone we know, and following up on every lead we found in online groups. We hadn’t really thought about it, but we had multiple layers of complications. When calling US companies, they wanted us to have a US address, which we don’t since we have lived in Belize for over 15 years. The also wanted the US title for the truck, which was long ago converted to a Belize title. And, the fact that it isn’t a mass produced motor home made them more than a little twitchy. Tom finally contacted a German company called Thum Insurance Agency L.L.C, located in Michigan, and they were able to help us because they do this all the time for European overlanders who ship their vehicles to the US in order to drive around for an extended time.
Tom didn’t find this company until fairly late Monday afternoon, so details for our application - which included things like a photo of Tom crawling through the pass-through window between the camper and the cab of the truck to prove that it was possible - didn’t get done until Tuesday morning. But, we completed the application and sent it off to Michigan, and headed out of Cholula towards Teotihuacan.
Tom didn’t find this company until fairly late Monday afternoon, so details for our application - which included things like a photo of Tom crawling through the pass-through window between the camper and the cab of the truck to prove that it was possible - didn’t get done until Tuesday morning. But, we completed the application and sent it off to Michigan, and headed out of Cholula towards Teotihuacan.