Just some observations from our bus ride.......I haven't done much traveling in Mexico by highway before. Usually I am taking small buses or vans around town or for short distances between towns. Our bus trips on Thursday were in big luxury buses that drove on toll highways, first from Cuernavaca to Puebla and then Puebla to Cuernavaca. There were two lanes in each direction. The lane near the middle was of regular width, but the lane on the outside was the width of half the other lane. it seems that most of the time our bus and cars drove strattling the line between the regular lane and the half lane. That way there was a half of the lane unused toward the middle. When the bus passed other vehicles we moved over into that empty half lane with half of our bus in the on-coming lane which seemed to work out fine as the on coming cars were only half in their regular lane, too. They seemed to pass whether the yellow lines in the middle were solid or broken. Occasionally there was a red Line down the center of the full lane, but I couldn't figure out what that meant.
On the water, with boats there are international rules that apply where ever you are. For instance, if you are leaving a harbor the green lights are always on your right and when returning you always keep the red lights to your right. Same rules on lakes, on rivers, and on the ocean. However, on land each country has their own rules as to what side you drive on and how you are to drive on those roads. Wouldn't it be easier if there were international laws for land as well? I know......who would get to decide.
Just a crazy thought.
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