Queretaro, Mexico

ROAD TRIP: We grabbed a bus - a Mexican bus (with chickens) in Matamoris and headed on a 12 hour journey to the colonial Spanish city of Queretaro - Jim, Sherry, Steve, & Melissa (armed only with backpacs and wine) and the necessary 3 pesos to use the bano when necessary. (12/2-12/8)



Cerro de las Campanas-Maximiliano de Habsburgo was executed here. We spent 2 hours trying to figure out how to get inside this park. S.J.'s undergraduate Spanish was of little help.

Plaza de Armas just in front of our hotel - Meson de Santa Rosa.

Plaza de la Corregidora
In honor of the Corregidora Dona Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez who in 1810 sent a message (like Paul Revere) that started the struggle for Mexican independence.

View fm inside our suite at Meson de Santa Rosa in Queretaro. City was founded around 1531. (I think that Zorro once lived in the Meson de Santa Rosa.)

Jim & Sherry Conrad-this is not a Carnaval Cruise vacation here. Notice the famous Queretaro Aqueduct in the background. Jim helped build it when he was an undergraduate.