Day 6...  Departure for Michoacan
16 July 2000, Morelia, Mexico
Not too many pictures from this day either.  We were on our busses for about 8 hours.  We stopped a couple of times, which was good because most of the busses didn't have bathrooms.  Which brings me to another point...  if you've never been to Mexico, or even 'non-touristy' Mexico, you probably don't know that they don't have toilet paper in public bathrooms!  So, beware - take your own!  Of course no one warned us of this before we got there!  But I digress...

Here is one last picture from the Scout camp in Tepotzlan, Morelos...

So yeah...  we spent all day on the bus...  Finally, we arrived at our destination - the City of Morelia in Michoacan, Mexico.

This new campsite was quite surprising!  This is a photo of the opening, which was in the Convention Centre!  Morelia was a city of three million people, and we were camping right in the middle of it.  A really big change from the rustic nature of the Morelos site.

After the opening where many politicians and scouting folks welcomed us, we were quicly ushered into another part of the convention centre where we were seved dinner by waiters in tuxedos!  Another really big change from Morelos!  However, Bortz and I both liked the Morelos atmosphere better.  It was more fun and more of an adventure.  :-)


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