we are failing to keep you up to date!

All apologies to our devoted followers, but internet access has been harder to come by recently. I will try to update you in succession as to our escapades, but it may be hard to remember. We last spoke of Real de Catorce eh? Well after that little excursion we spent a couple nights in a city called San Luis Potosi. I may have even spelled that wrong? who knows. There were a few highlights from this experience, but they will be brief. First, this is the city where we experienced our first, and thus far only, Mexican Police encounter. We were driving around looking for the address of our couchsurfer host for the night and a motorcycle cop pulled along side and motioned for me to follow. After a brief inspection of the VIN and a quick conversation about how i did not speak spanish he said we were free. yes, free. free at last. After telling him where we were headed he said just follow him at his break kneck speed through the traffic of the city. After blowing a few reds and cutting a few people off to keep up we got to one of the two independencia aves in the city. Didn't know there were two? yeah, neither did we. The cop jumped off his bike and started walking the street with us saying "i don't know gringo. i don't think there's a 45 on this street." That was the end of his help for us and the end of our first mexi-po-piggy-po experience. Second good thing about this city was being present at our host Octavios house when he got running water for the first time in years at his families long and forgotten home. mmmm. running water. Finally, we got to meet up with our Real de Catorce friends for dinner and a brief tour of the city. They again proved to be great new friends by tricking Christian into eating a taco filled with "testiculos del toro" (you're a bright bunch eh? figure it out) and forcing me into some karaoke...which i nailed. BAM! Oh St. Louis Potosi. We shant miss yeee.