San Luis Potosi Plaza De Armas

The next morning, we popped up and prepared for a day to explore a place we'd never been before. I had been hearing nothing but good things about this town and my time spent in it would not find any contradictions to those reports. San Luis Potosi is located in a large and expansive plateau that sits in much of northern and central Mexico. The average elevation is about 6,157 feet, -700 feet less than what I am accustomed to in Guanajuato. Just like most of the central Mexican states with a Steppe Climate, there is variation of weather that you will get depending on where you are in the state. It was March 2007, with cool mornings and short-pants weather by noon and for most of the afternoon.

In the upper regions of the state, you will find agriculture with an array of crops consisting of wheat, maize, beans and cotton. In the lowlands, you could see sugar, coffee, tobacco, peppers and fruit. Cattle ranching is also a thriving industry. Some, but not a lot, of wooden furniture and handicrafts are available. There used to be a great deal of silver mining, too, but that industry has declined.

After showering, I had to fight my way out of a bathroom that was only big enough to accommodate one butt cheek. I managed to slide out of the gang shower, out of the bathroom, and into the hotel room to dry off and dress.

Sometimes, mainly in older Mexican hotels, not a great deal of thought goes into bathroom construction. I had to back into the bathroom in order to use the toilet, then creep sideways like a crab to enter the shower. There just wasn't room to turn around without bumping into the sink, falling over the toilet, or tripping over the inch-high lip that was supposed to keep the water inside the shower stall. The shower had no door or curtain, just a partial wall, so water went everywhere and soaked everything in the bathroom. I had to leave my tissue-thin bath towel (it was only slightly larger than a hand towel) on the bed so it would at least, in all its expansive glory, be dry!

So, enough of that, we were off to breakfast.