Looks like good road news coming up shortly

That section of "road from hell" between Lagos de Moreno and Villa de Arriaga (San Luis Potosi) is about to be replaced as the new road is scheduled to be open shortly! This could easily cut 30 minutes or more off the trip to Laredo or the Rio Grande Valley and save a lot of wear and tear on your car.

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Now, if they could just finish the Chapala-Ocotlan Highway from the La Barca turnoff from the Chapala-Guadalajara Highway on the west to the turnoff to the Guadalajara-Mexico Autopista on the east, Dawg´s drive from Ajijic to Chiapas via Puebla will finally become a dream drive through Veracruz State if a bit lengthy. Then when they open the new autopista from Oaxaca City to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, the drive will be even nicer.

They have been working on improving the dreadful Chapala-Ocotlan highway ever since we first drove it in 2001 and this hour plus long stretch of dangerous and crowded highway is by far the worst disaster in the entire 1,500 kilometer drive to San Cristóbal now that one needn´t drive through the heart of Mexico City anymore with the opening of the new Arco Norte. Despite this miserable stretch of road to Ocotlan, they are making progress and, just as in that stretch of road through Lagos de Moreno, some day they are bound to finish this interminable poject.

I bring this up for the benefit of folks living around Lakeside who woud love to visit Southern Mexico but have been put off in the past by the drive through the heart of DF and some mountainous stretches in Oaxaca State and Chiapas - roads that have been vastly improved in the past few years. You should have seen this drive the first time we drove from Lakeside to San Cristóbal de Las Casas in about 2004 when that city was isolated by winding mountain roads clinging to precipitous cliffs. That´s all changed for the better, thank God.
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