Travels continue
During our travels this last two weeks my van has experience a toasted regulator, bad starter, two cracked heads, and a broken throttle cable. I was supposed to have left Hermosillo on 30 June but the van was being check on in the shop. One day turned into several and we finally left yesterday even after being delayed again as we had to turn around and have a leak checked. We had a stopover just south of the U.S. border. This morning we set out and as we were going up a mountain the throttle cable broke. As we look back we see how God was completely in control. There had just happened to be a landing and we still enough velocity to pull off into a pullover...which was definitely more than a coincidence.
A truck driver helped us get the van temporarily going (as we were also in the middle of nowhere) and we drove another hour to a city where I would get the cable replace. We after a while the man came back and said that they did not have parts and it would be tomorrow around 11 or 12 before it would be ready and that it would cost 300-400 pesos. About an hour after we had eaten supper and checked into the hotel we received a call that the van was fixed. Of course we had already paid for a room but at least we get to leave out early.