Sometimes you just get lucky

Guadalajara besides having a plethora of “a’s” in the name is a huge city. It is the second largest in Mexico, with 1.4 million people living in the main city and 4.3 million living in the outside area (if I am wrong blame Wikipedia).  Driving Moby our petite Ford Excursion can be challenging on empty roads but getting to a huge city, where we have never been (I am not counting when I was 5), and then trying to find a hotel is next to impossible. 

Before we left Tequila I did a quick search for hotels, which accept doggies, in Guadalajara and came up with 7, 3 seemed woefully expensive, and one was next to the airport which left 3.  Two were on the way into to town and the 3rd was a hostel right in the center of town, with no parking.  Our first bit of luck was having purchased and downloaded the Garmin Mexico Maps.  It took me a while to figure out how to enter the names of the streets but the first hotel finally made its appearance after about 5 tries.  Our next bit of luck was being able to understand Ms. Garmin… “Turn on cal Fred Rick O deli Valley”.  But she still faithfully led us to our first hotel, which luckily was sold out.  We couldn’t locate the address of the second one and so off to the 3^rd one this one a hostel, with no street parking...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We found it easily enough, I entered into this...

 

 

 

 

 

Love at first sight. And this little paradise is located a 5 minute walk from the historic center. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Parking well that is also a lucky story, the senora told us there was parking a block and ½ away, not thinking we would fit, we drove for about an hour and a half being turned down at all the other parking lots in the town, we were too tall, at night it isn’t secure, they have tenants that take all the spaces at night, etc… only to return to the one she recommended, fit and have locked secured parking overnight… Now that is what I call luck, dumb luck!