Colonial Cities and big RV'S do not mix

Yes, there are some places, like in any town or city in the world, where some rigs dare not go. But in general, with a bit of common sense and on board technology there shouldn't be an issue.

San Miguel de Allende has many avenues that are navigable by all rvs up to 45 ft.

In fact, there is a secured public parking lot within walking distance from the Parroquia just off of San Antonio. It is 160 pesos for 24 hours. We stayed that as recently as three months ago for three nights.

The same goes with Dolores Hidalgo. You can park in the secured parking lot behind the public auditorium with Proteccion Civil. This auditorium also has wifi and is four blocks from the main plaza.

Both of these towns are big rig friendly. Using GoogleMaps and GPS you can easily find routes that will accept your rigs. In all of Mexico there are three common bus sizes, 32, 35 and 45ft buses. They make great guides along with good mapping.

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO.

I ended up in El Centro of a small city. Really tight. All of a sudden I hear a burrp from a siren. Transito in a truck gets next to me and says "Amigo, your are lost!" I said "Si". After he figured out where we wanted to be he turned on his lights and cleared traffic all the way to the bypass. When we got there he and his partner got out, saluted and pointed to the on-ramp. Great memory but I hope to not do that again.

Such great advice. We have had several issues with exploring Mexico, too.

The bus system is fabulous, and once we moved out of a Blazer into an RV, we started riding buses and seeing so much more than we had in the past.

We have a 24 C, in 2003 we were at town in Oaxaca and were going to the next town, I know the roads from previous trips in the VW bus, two roads one long and a short one over a stone arched bridge, we took the bridge and if the RV did not fit go back and go the long way.

Got to the bridge and measured with the tape, good half foot to spare, at the other side there was joung kid with a donkey, the donkey was siting down in the middle of the road and maybe three feet on the bridge and the kid pulling on the roap, donkey would not budge.

Eased the truck on the bridge, got close to the kid and the donkey stood up and backed to the side and off the bridge to let us pass pulling the kid along, once we passed he went back to the same spot and sat down, you never know what one encounters in Mexico, take your time and enjoy the moments and life.

You have to live la vida loca!

navegator

We too got caught on market day in a very busy town (can't remember the name though). I was leaning out the side window making sure DH did not hit anything on the passenger side.
A shoe shine guy was not pleased that we were only inches from his chair and foot stand. He got even - when got through town and got out to take a breather, we noticed a streak of black shoe polish all along the side of our M.H. We laughed and considered it another Mexican experience.

We too got caught on market day in a very busy town (can't remember the name though). I was leaning out the side window making sure DH did not hit anything on the passenger side.
A shoe shine guy was not pleased that we were only inches from his chair and foot stand. He got even - when got through town and got out to take a breather, we noticed a streak of black shoe polish all along the side of our M.H. We laughed and considered it another Mexican experience.

Great advice. One year we entered one of the small villages and it was market day. They had the main street closed off. We were in a CC duallie with a 12 ft. camper! I started to back up but a local had parked his ox cart complete with 2 oxen in the middle of the street. We laughed when my wife asked him to please move his oxen!!

Moisheh

Great advice Navegator. Thanks for sharing.