Tope-landia

We’ve ridden one last tope (speed bump) and swerved to avoid a final bache (pothole)… our marathon journey through seventeen Mexican states has come to an end after logging 24,716km (15,448 miles) driving on the ‘wrong’ side of the road.

All told, we pumped £731-worth of petrol into the tank of our economical Chevy, which, averaging out the exchange rate over the entire 8-month trip, works out at just under £3 per each 100km travelled (£4.73 per 100 miles in ‘old money’).

For comparison, this is roughly half what it would cost to travel a similar distance around the coastline of the British Isles (more than once…); roughly the equivalent of London to Sydney and half way back again.

No punctures.

No accidents.

Not that the journey was without incident mind you – I’ll be writing something about our experiences very soon: the good, the bad and the very ugly (aka Mexico City traffic cops).

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