San Luis Potosí aka: San Luis Potosi

I was travelling with a group of exchange students around Mexico for three weeks. San Luis Potosi was a stopover city, our destination was Zacatecas, about a 4 hour drive away. There was a mix-up in communication and I ended up being stranded in San Luis Potosi by myself, waiting for our charter bus.. that never did come. So, I started talking with the traffic officer to see if he had seen the bus: nothing. He then flagged down a police officer, asked him the same thing, they got on the radio, asking around if anyone had seen this bus: nothing. So, after about 4 hours of waiting around in the supposed meeting spot, I ended up going back to the “Public Security” police station or something. After several long distance phone calls and eventually getting a hold of the group, which were already lodged in Zacatecas (to give you an idea of time: we were supposed to leave San Luis Potosi at 3 or 4pm and by the time I finally got a hold of them, it was 11:00pm). Anyways, long story short: the police officer that had been with me from the beginning offered to DRIVE me over to Zacatecas, the hotel the group was at, once he got off shift. For the mean time, he drove me to grab some food and then offered his pad to me to rest at until he was done his shift and could come back and get ready to go. I was nervous about the whole idea, the idea of corrupt/bad police officers isn’t a new one in Mexico. However, this guy was sincere and definitely didn’t do anything to cause alarm. He and his friend ended up driving me four hours to Zacatecas, to get there by 2:30 am. As I had mentioned in other entries of Mexico, the hospitality is absolutely amazing – these are “people”-persons. Do not be discouraged or turn down one of their offers of hospitality; it gives them great reward to be able to do something nice for someone – as long as you return the favour sometime!

I studied here in the Summer of 1974 with a group of students from Indiana State University.