Traveling Through Mexico - Day 2, Puerto Peñasco to Hermosillo. Contributed by TangerineTravels

After doing some more research on the TIP before leaving our Puerto Peñasco Airbn​b, we found out that some Banjercito locations have recently begun requiring an original copy of your car’s title.

Banjercito = Government office where you buy the temporary import permit.

We had the car’s registration and we had our tourist visas, both of which are required for the TIP. However, we only had an HD digital scan of the title, not the original.

Once again, we asked our trusty Facebook group what our chances of success were. We got about a dozen responses with the personal experiences of others. About ten said they didn’t need the title, and two said they did.

Side note: I think that before long, it will be a Steemit community where we’re asking these questions, not a Facebook group.

Given those responses, we thought our chances of getting the TIP were pretty good. However, if the Guaymas Banjercito does end up requiring the title, it’s not the end of the world. Our family back in the states have access to the title, so if we need it, we can stay in Guaymas a couple extra days while we wait for it to arrive via UPS.

Off to Hermosillo!

It’s a 5.5 hour drive according to Google maps, but since we tend to drive slower than average, it will probably take closer to 7 hours. Thank goodness we’re driving in the daytime today!

It has been a pretty uneventful drive, and there’s not a lot of scenery in the Sonora desert. Hermosillo isn’t a place we actually wanted to visit, but rather it’s a place for us to stop, so we don’t have to spend an exorbitant amount of time on the road today.

The roads are nice for the most part, however there’s some stretches with potholes all over the place! You would not want to be on this road at night! These potholes will ruin you. Fortunately, we were able to avoid nearly every one of them.

Arriving in Hermosillo, MX.

It’s a sizable city with nearly a million people. The first thing we notice is the pollution. There has been worse pollution in Phoenix, but it's nothing that we want to be around. Even if everything else is perfect about a city, and it’s exactly what we’re looking for, pollution will keep us from staying there.

There’s a lot of industry here. We’re seeing many factories, in addition to a lot of brands that we see in the states: Auto Zone, Costco, Walmart, McDonalds, Applebee’s, and KFC to name a few.

Our Airbnb

We pull into a nice gated community, and ours is the first house you see. It’s a sizable place with an enormous bed, fast wifi, and washer/dryer. It has just about everything we could want for a relaxing stay after another long day of driving. That’s what $28 gets you here in Hermosillo.

We meet our host, who as it turns out, lived in Tucson, Arizona for a while and speaks English very well. It’s nice to be able to communicate in a familiar language when we’re this tired and hungry.

There’s a supermercado (super market) next door, so we were able to walk over and get some food that works for Maddi’s allergies. Everything in the super market is much cheaper than we’re accustomed to in Arizona: A sizable package of cheese = $1. Pre-cut and packaged fruit = $0.50. Bottle of hot sauce = under $1. Large bottle of purified water = $0.40.

We don’t really care to explore this city, and we’re too exhausted to do that, even if we wanted to. So we’re going to call it a night, and we will see you tomorrow on our way to Guaymas. We’re finally going to be at the beach!

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If you'd like to follow along on our adventures through Mexico, you can find us at @tangerinetravels.

Until next time, amigos!