Chilingo

Yesterday we decided that we would get out of the house and drive up to the state of Queretaro. We needed a few more big chest-like baskets to hide the toys that litter our living room.

I had gone to a market up there one time on the way to Pena de Bernal. I thought, “I’ve been there once, I can find it again.” Well, I was wrong.

We drove the hour and a half to the exit for “San Juan del Rio,” but that’s when we started to get lost. We missed a turn but realized soon that none of what we were seeing looked familiar (to me…I was the only one who had been before).

So we turned around and followed a route that felt a little more recognizable. We drove and drove, but we didn’t find the place. By now, we were really hungry, so we turned around to go to a restaurant for lunch. Little did we know how close we really were.

After lunch, I asked the waitress where there was a market to buy local “artesania.” Her response was, “You are probably looking for Tequis. That’s where there is lots of arts. I’m not sure how far it is in Kilometers, but it’s about 7 minutes down this same street”

So we got into the car and went the same way we had just returned from. After about 15 minutes, we arrived at the market I had been to before. We found it! It was exciting.

We bought what we were looking for after driving through three states of Mexico and paying 240 pesos in tolls. It’s a good thing the chests we bought cost us a lot less than what they would have cost here in our part of Mexico City.