The Road

The road to Las Moras has been labeled by my co-workers here in Mexico as the worst road that any of us have to travel.  It is rarely maintained.  When it is rainy, it can take up to 3 days to get out of Las Moras because of the mud (63 miles).  It is extremely bumpy – half of the time the speed doesn’t even register on the speedometer because you are moving too slowly.

So, I was mentally prepared for a very rough trip.  However, as we left the pavement, I was pleasantly surprised with a smooth ride – considerably fewer bumps than I had imagined.  My partners were pleasantly surprised, too!  We discovered the reason for the nice road as we passed the first town – a grader was out working on the road.  I was thanking the Lord for His timing. First of all, the road is rarely maintained, but our trip corresponded with the grader working on the road from the coast to the first town.  The grader’s timing isn’t very logical, because we are not yet out of rainy season (we have Hurricane Rick coming through right now) so the roads will  continue to get washed out until the rains stop.  However, we were very impressed with the road and I am praising God for His timing giving us travel-able roads!

So, we passed the first town where the grader was parked  and VERY quickly realized that the grader had worked no farther than where it was sitting.  So, the rest of the road was as I expected – very bumpy and muddy in places.  We are very thankful to God, though.  The muddy places were not too muddy to pass through.  There were no stranded vehicles we were not able to get around.  There were no mud/rock slides that made the road impassable.  And it started raining when we were only about 3 miles away from the village.  That made the last little bit was even slower as the rain made the clay road very slippery, but we are thankful that it wasn’t raining sooner.

All in all, half the road was better than my partners had ever seen it and half the road was the worst they had ever seen it!

Praise the Lord, we were able to make it in and out without any difficulties and the trucks ran great!!