WARNING---DO NOT DRIVE AT NIGHT IN MEXICO!
Mexicans do not drive at night if they can avoid it only big rigs and cargo trucks do that, private citizens do not drive at night or try to avoid it as much as possible, specially when the road is not a toll road but a road that is referred as "libre" no toll.
On the toll roads if you get to go 60 to 65 mph that is fast, there are pot holes on pot holes, and some are hard to see, then you have the famous topes "AKA speed bumps" that every one loves both tourists and locals, some are painted and have signs that they are coming and some you only see at the last minute.
You are better taking an airplane to visit your friends, the distance might not be a deterrent if driving in the USA, in Mexico the speed on the roads is the time consumer and most roads tend to go through the town rather than around it, school zones and speed restrictions mean that you will travel at 25 to 30 mph trough town and slowing down for the "TOPE", that is provided that the pavement around the potholes is drivable at slow speed I have been driving in Mexico since 1965, I am currently living in Mexico City.
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