EVERYTHING CHANGES
Below some quick unscientific rough math for cost of travel between 11-30-2013 and 12-4-2013. Two withdrawals at two different cash machines gave us two different exchange rates based on charges to our credit union accounts in the US. This includes all charges/fees to give a true cost to us per pesos so may not be the same as other published rates.
CHARGE . . . FOR . . . . . . . PESOS PER $US . . . .US CENTS PER PESO
233.29 . . . 3,000 pesos . . . 12.8595 . . . . . . . . . . . 0.07776
384.49 . . . 5,000 pesos . . . 13.0042 . . . . . . . . . . . 0.07689
617.78 . . . . 8,000 pesos . . . 12.94959 . . . . . . . . . . 0.0772225 AVERAGE OF TWO WITHDRAWALS
Diesel fuel is now up to 12.38 per liter and will soon be 12.49 per liter as there has been a steady increase of 11 centavos per month for more than a few years now. Our notes say we were paying around 5 pesos per liter in 2006. Here is a rough idea of costs per gallon in US $$. Before we left AZ we paid $3.619 as the lowest price we could find.
12.38 pesos diesel per ltr X 3.78 = 46.796 pesos per gal = $3.617US per gallon
Approximately 1,000 miles Nogales to Lo de Marcos at approximately 7mpg =142.86 gal at $3.617 = $516.71US
Tolls continue to go up. We think this is all the tolls we paid from Nogales to Lo de Marcos.
TOLLS for 2 axle motorhome pulling 2 axle car Nogales to Tepic
177
60
175
175
175
175
109
57
164
132
66
164
301
268
270
244
486
120
2283546 X .0772 = $273.75US(tolls) + $516.71(fuel) = $790.46 US Nogales to Lo de Marcos (about $00.79 per mile)
Other posters/travelers may be better at math.
