Good drive today. Sunny but much cooler. First time we have crossed the Sonora Desert without having to start the generator to run the aircon. Highest temperatre we saw on the rigs outside thermometer was 74. Great for driving, but in Ajo AZ needed long pants when the sun went down!
Road was great in spite of the construction. think I qualified for a Mexican Drivers Licence: Passed a fladbed Semi in a construction zone on a double yellow line at twice the posted speed! (Long straight, flat, wide new concrete section. No curve, so maybe not quite fully qualified!)
Turned onto Highway 2 at Santa Ana, the 2 in pretty good shape to Sonoyta except for a few short sections.
Note: turning in TIP at Pitiquito; The building in on the left just after crossing the RR tracks. this crossing is ROUGH. Crawl across. Turn in just past the outbound lane, very tight turn past a row of concrete barriers. DW walked into the office and an agent came out to remove the Jeep's decal. U turned at the unmanned inspection stations and exited the way we came in. The place was almost deserted NO staff outside. Southbound traffic went through with no agents in sight. Back on the road in 15 minutes.
At the "Old station, (KM 21?) there was lots of building construction going on. No sign of this place being replaced by Pitiquito. Almost the other way around.
