The Missed Day

March 27, 2013: Wednesday*** We woke up late at 1000H and we readied ourselves for the trip to Taxco. We will be leaving Mexico City and be back nere after 7 days, the day I would fly back to Los Angeles, culminating my ten days trip here searching for a soul-searching spiritual experience.

We left Mexico City at 1130H yet I noticed that my friend was been worried. I never know what will happen today. He wanted to passed by the DMV to get his driver’s license because his old ones was been stolen when his camera got lost. It was left in his wallet in a small messenger bag and he might have left it somewhere else.

We passed by Texcoco and he went to the DMV there to try his luck if he can get his license replaced. He decided to drive to Taxco but without a driver’s license it will be impossible for him to do it. H lined there and half an hour later he came out empty handed. He could not get a replacement today.

So the only option for us to get to Taxco is to take a bus. He dropped me off at the Texcoco bus station while he will go back to his place in Tlaxcala to leave his car and then take a bus back to the bus station where I will be waiting for him. I’ve been waiting for him for more than one hour and then he showed up and bought two tickets to Mexico City Union Station where we can get a ticket going to Taxco.

When we arrived at the Union Station we inquired on how to get to Taxco so he was instructed to buy a ticket to Cuautla then get down from there and buy a ticket to Cuernavaca and then from there get a bus going to Taxco. We did what was instructed of him but we worried about the time to Cuautla because it will took 4 hours for us by bus in going there then another one hour by bus (via a transfer) to Cuernavaca then another two hours (via transfer) to Taxco.

We have no means but to accept the challenge. We boarded an air conditioned bus from Mexico City to Cuautla via an Au Sur Bus and endured almost and hour traffic in going out of Mexico City. We left at around 1700H and it was already dark. By the time we arrived in Cuautla it will be night fall.

The drive to Cuautla was slow yet sure. We passed by the town of Amecameca which is the home of pottery here in Mexico. We passed by a bus terminal there to pick up more passengers but we never alighted. Amecameca was a huge town as well yet I couldn’t really appreciate it’s beauty because we were at the outskirts of the town. Few minutes later we continued the trip trying to get out of the last traffic in Amecameca.

After two more hours we arrived at Cuautla which is also a big and progressive city. It looks colonial and huge. Bigger than the last town we passed by. The driver had dropped us out of a terminal and we have to cross a bridge in order to get to the other side.
At the terminal we have to buy ticket going to Cuernavaca. It was already 2000H when we arrived at Cuautla and the bus will be leaving twenty minutes later. When the bus came we loaded our luggages then look for a comfortable sat because I was already tired. The bus was much much better than the previous bus we had, air conditioned well and spacious.

We arrived at Cuernavaca an hour after and the night was been seeping into the whole time as evidenced by the thick fog and the cool airy temperatre. The bus driver had dropped us off at the corner and pointed to us where the next bus station there. We ambled a less than half a mile and reached the small bus station.

We asked about how to get to Taxco and the receptionist told us that there was no more trip to Taxco at that time. The last trip left at 1900H and they will have again the first trip tomorrow at 1200H.

We were battling whether to take a taxi going to Taxco because I’ve already paid our room there at Agua Escondido Hotel but the taxi driver wanted to charge us 750 Mexican pesos. We decided to stay the night at Cuernavaca and just forfeit the room at Taxco.

We called for a taxi to drive us to a neares hotel and he dropped us at Hotel Roma. We rented a room for the night then slept our fatigue out from the long trip we had. I told my friend that I was not hungry because we ate sandwiches at the Union Station in Mexico earlier. We only ordered cold water from the receptionist at the hotel.

We went to sleep a little frustrated because we did not got to Taxco as planned but who knows this is God’s plan for us today. We missed one day though but the experience in the bus was an added bonus for us today. It was really fun to have experienced it, observing people inside the bus was very interesting. I mean we never get board because we never ran out of funny conversations.

I never regretted this trip and who knows what else will happened tomorrow. I am very tired now so I must retire. Bonne Nuit!