{"id":525,"date":"2009-11-28T21:06:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T02:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/?p=525"},"modified":"2009-11-28T21:07:44","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T02:07:44","slug":"leaving-monterrey-and-northern-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/?p=525","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Monterrey, and northern Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-531\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/costumes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-531\" title=\"costumes\" src=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/costumes-540x407.jpg\" alt=\"Matachines wearing traditional dance costumes\" width=\"540\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/costumes-540x407.jpg 540w, https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/costumes.jpg 760w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matachines wearing traditional dance costumes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/food1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-532\" title=\"food\" src=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/food1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"food\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/candles2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-530 alignleft\" title=\"candles2\" src=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/candles2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Candles offered to the Virgin\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will be leaving Monterrey Sunday morning, and go south direction Tampico. We need to move faster, but were happy be in Mexico, and to eat plenty of great food.<\/p>\n<p>We went yesterday to visit the Basilic of Guadalupe and witnessed one the hundreds of pilgrimage dedicated to the Virgin Mar\u00eda.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe is December 12. This is one of\u00a0Mexico&#8217;s\u00a0most popular event.\u00a0She is said to have appeared to\u00a0Saint Juan Diego near\u00a0Mexico City between December 9 and December 12, 1531.<\/p>\n<p>I bet we will see more related ceremonies on the road, going through Mexico.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_539\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-539\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-539\" title=\"nick\" src=\"http:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nick-540x283.jpg\" alt=\"Mustache contest\" width=\"540\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nick-540x283.jpg 540w, https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nick-1024x537.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/nick.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mustache contest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will be leaving Monterrey Sunday morning, and go south direction Tampico. We need to move faster, but were happy be in Mexico, and to eat plenty of great food. We went yesterday to visit the Basilic of Guadalupe and witnessed one the hundreds of pilgrimage dedicated to the Virgin Mar\u00eda. The upcoming feast day &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/?p=525\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leaving Monterrey, and northern Mexico&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[311,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transworldexpedition.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}