The Trip Home

San Luis Potosi was another gorgeous colonial city, one that is turning the center into a tourist's (and local's) dream of a city. It is clean. There are no potholes in the sidewalks to devour you. They are even putting all of the wires underground. Fortunately there were a few left for me to photograph.

Another useful shadow provided by a church. This church was only one of many in the center. I think there were six magnificent churches within three blocks of our hotel, all with well-kept parks and plazas. San Luis Potosi is also turning many of the streets between the historic sites into walking-only streets. It is great for pedestrians, although we did have trouble finding a way to our hotel and its parking lot.

What we saw when we left the hotel. Unfortunately, there are still wires overhead here.

Santa Clara. This church is lit at night in the weeks around Holy Week. They do some kind of projection on the exterior and we got the whole Easter story picked out on the walls in vivid color. It's too bad my camera wouldn't record this except as a little video.

This is for Tyler. It's more florescent tubes inside a church and a homely little clock. This is the interior of Santa Clara and it is the most elaborately adorned church we have visited.

Below is Santo Nino. Left, in the hopes of a miracle, are toy cars to please the childish saint and pictures of children hoping for help.

Kent wanted this picture, poor though it is, to be included. You are to look for the crystal ship chandelier in the upper right of the picture. It is in a church--not Santa Clara.

After San Luis Potosi we started into the desolate, dry country of the Chihuahua desert. We actually find it beautiful and feel at home here. It could be parts of Wyoming.

Casas Grandes is a town and the site of an archaeological ruin. The ancient people who built this adobe city are related to some of the tribes of the American SW.

Through the museum window. They didn't allow me to photograph any of the artifacts, even without flash.

This ends most of our sojourn in Mexico. Tomorrow we cross the border in the U.S.