to texcoco around mexico city

may 31st. 174 miles with out orizaba
We headed out towards Mexico City with the hope of staying somewhere outside, in a smaller town. Without knowing how long things would take we kept on going. We stopped for a late lunch in Rio Frio due to cold, pouring rain. But there were no hotels so we continued.
We decided to head towards Texcoco when we got to the city. At the turn off the city traffic was really bad and there were lots of red lights in the distance, so we turned around and thought we could head through the city on the highway faster.
We couldn’t find the signs we were hoping for to get us north. I think the scale is just so big that we had to go much further along. We turned around thinking we could catch an over pass, but man, they just don’t let you back in. we drove miles back down the highway and took the biggest road north – After lots more traffic, rain, bad neighborhoods, more rain, we ended up back on the original road we didn’t want to take (136). So we took it. More rain, more puddles, more rivers and ponds. Sunday market was closing up , lots of traffic. Roads are flooded. A couple hotels look really seedy and what the hell, were soaked already. We keep going. Trucks splashing us. Laughing at our predicament.
Luckily we decided to go into Texcoco because there was not much beyond that for sleeping. (The road turn off says 142 instead of 143 as it says on our map). There are two hotels here, we got a big room with lots of space for clothes lines. I don't know if anything dried in the saturated air. Hotel Castillo and a good restaurant across the street. I'm cold to the bone.