Diane and I met in Melaque and stayed at the Lalora hotel.  In the morning we had to get to the tour bus early but leaving the hotel proved a bit tricky.  Early in the morning before sunrise with no hall lights and an open metal spiral stair case to be navigated in the dark gave our adrenal glands a work out.   To get to the front door  we had to hold our phones up with flashlight on and our suitcases in our other hand then descend the open staircase.  At the exit we realized we were locked in the hotel.  We had to wake up the front desk guy to get out!!

Crazy drivers on the 6 lane highway over fabulous bridges, not so fabulous bumps and potholes and lots of speed bumps. Men on the tops of pickup trucks and horses in the bed of pick up were common place. Miguel the bus driver, had a pumping style on the gas pedal my innards did not like.

We past a couple volcanos, the Colima volcanos, one which is the most active in the world with a parasitic volcano on the side. 

Dan the tour guide was good at giving us information about the area we were driving through. We went by salt flats and Ciudad Guzman, a town where all the avocados come from that are shipped to Canada thanks to the US tariffs and that is why our avocados are cheaper now.  Apparently a bilateral agreement happened when truck loads of avocados showed up at the border to US and were stopped as they declined to pay the tarrifs.

We passed close by the place where the drug cartel kingpin  El Mencho was killed last week, that was interesting. We didn't get too close.