Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-27
WHAT about the trip to Mexico
w nv AUTOMOBILE. inauIre

tbhuy ulotofists VI JVstf eos'ssf''ss
This question your automobile
clubs should and will answer In
detail.
But your columnist will give
you briefly some essential facts.
and will surely not recommend any
motor tour In Mexico where the
roads are not perfectly paved and
the hotels strictly first class.
An American motorist actually
wants to travel with "alI the COM
forts of home," and this he can
uneuestionably dp II he sticks to
the paved roads--quite as good as
we have at homeland spends his
nights intelligentIy where there
are comfortable modern hotels.
At present writing, the west
coast highway from Nogales to
Guadalajara is under reconstruc-
fion, being paved and surfaced in
modern manner.
Consequently, IL Is more or less
impossible so there Is only one
perfect paved road over which yon
can travel In complete comfort
from the United States TO Mexico
City.
You enter the Mexican country
at Laredo. Texas.
You stop at Monterrey the first
night---at Wales the second night
and the third night you spend
In the City of Mexico.
Laredo Is fine city and old
one--for the United States.
1t was founded In 1863 by a
Spanish hidaigo--Laredo by name.
The Spanish king ordered Don
Juan Fernando TO survey the
district and TO aIIot To every
family which settled there 5000
acres of land and loo yards OF
river front---a pretty liberal allow
ance--don't we wish we could get
II today:
However, you would better tear
yourself away from Laredo early
and get 10 Monterrey, Mexico, in
time for luncheon. This you can
easily do. a. the distance il only
$50 miles.
MONTERREY il one OF the liv-
lvl est cities in Mexico and a
beautiful. city. too.
II IL the most important manu-
featuring center of the republic.
You knew about the beer--(that
made Monterrey mous)--beeause
that golden liquid inyades the
states TO soothe the parched
American palate.
But that pleasant product II
only one of the many important
manufactures OF this much Amer
icanixed city.
You will have the afternoon at
Monterrey and after you have
eaten your luncheon you Will wish
TO see the city.
The best view OF the picturesque
town can he had from the old
bishops palace at the top Of the
Chepe Vera Till.
You win enjoy the lovely piano.
rama. and YOU viii also enjoy
wandering through the attractive
plazas of the city in the baimy
evening after dinner, listening to
the military band and observing
the pleasant people.
On the morning of the next day
out of Monterrey, one of the first
towns of consequence which you
reach is San Miguel de Allende.
named after a hero who fought
fer freedom
The architecture In this town is
particularly striking.
singularly enough. most of II
was designed and constructed by
seyerino Gutierrez, an Indian who
had no trained and technical
knowledge and who drew all his
various monumental plans with a
stick I'm the sand.
Reincarnafion may be fantas-
tic theory. but this Indian genius
could not have inherited an amaz-
ing talent which none of his
ancestors possessed.
How then, could he have ae-
quired 1t except by personal eN-
perfence In some previous exist
ence.
However, we have nos time to
delay for abstruse argument.
THE trip Is long from Monterrey
TO yalles--nearly three hun
dred miles.
Nevertheless, the road Is won
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