Russ and Jan's Excellent Adventure

Prelude to our adventure: November 5, 2022, we drove to Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico to take care of our home there as well as to pre-pay various fees. Those fees included Real Estate tax, el Cid HOA fees, and golf course fees as well as our license fee for our car. The drive took 2 days and 1,300 Kilometers, a hotel overnight and dinner. We arrived home on Sunday the 6th. On Monday the 7th found Jan very ill with what we believed to be food poisoning from her dinner in Navajoa. By Tuesday she was much better and we were able to accomplish getting everyone pre-paid. We departed Mazatlan on Tuesday the 15th after introducing our house sitter to our cleaning lady on Monday afternoon. The return trip saw us repeating the drive from Mazatlan to Navajoa, staying and eating at a different hotel. Driving in Mexico finds one stopping at various check points, crossing state borders and stopping to pay tolls. The drive from Navajoa started at 6am with our GPS suggesting our arrival time to get home to be 2:30pm. Which might have happened even with 8 toll booths causing us to come to a complete stop for several minutes or more. We have done this drive many times and it is not unusual to see a wreck or two going either direction. This time the wreck was on the way to Hermosillo. This is a photo of the traffic being rerouted from then North bound highway to the South bound closing one lane then being rerouted over a dirt area back to the North bound side. A very dirty detour. The photo of the wreck did not turn out. Regardless, we made it to the Mexico/USA Boarder at Mariposa instead of going to downtown Nogales. The border wait time found on the US Customs app suggested that the wait time was 30 minutes in either location. This is much less than normal. We in fact crossed in about 20 minutes which is the fastest time ever. I decided not to stop for fuel as we are now about 90 miles or minutes to Oro Valley. Little did we know that after the ICE check point the 4 lane highway went to one lane each way and the drive took two and a half hours to complete. Traffic on the drive out and a pic of a statue