(Nick) This morning, Amy and I woke up at around 4am, having spent most of last night celebrating in the rooftop jaccuzi of our hotel. Amy's flight home was leaving at 6am, so we had ordered a taxi for 4.30am. We also managed to rouse Dan to say good bye.

Taking our taxi ride to the airport, was a slightly scary experience, as there was very little traffic, the taxi driver drove as fast as he could, and as there were no police working at that time, he didn't pay much attention to the traffic lights!

After dropping Amy off, and taking the ride back to the hotel, Dan and I got ready to head out to Santa Fe, where the Mexico City Land Rover garage was located.

Mexico City is absolutely enormous, and Santa Fe is one of five Central Business districts of the city. unfortunately, none of our detailed maps showed the area, and reading about it on the Internet, we were worried to read that traffic and access to the area, was particularly bad.

To help us out, I gathered all the maps I could, and put together a route plan, while Dan phoned the Land Rover garage. We were very surprised when the person we were talking to said that our vehicle was already there, and that he was looking at it now!

On further questioning, it turned out that another expedition was in town with an English Land Rover Defender 110 in Orange. We were quite excited, as I had not met any other expeditions, and Daniel had not met any since Malaysia. However, it did mean we may have competition when coming to potential sponsorship.

The drive to Santa Fe was pretty horrendous, even though we had disconnected the trailer. It was not made any better by the lack of road signs, meaning we missed our turning on the motorway, then when we found our way onto the correct road, we sat in a traffic jam for 40 minutes. Once we got into Santa Fe, as we had no maps of the local area, we had to ask for directions. Unfortunately, no-one had heard of Land Rover or Jaguar, and had no idea where we should go!

We spotted a sign for Peugot Santa Fe, and decided that as with most places now, car dealers are usually located close to one another, we should head towards it.

Our decision paid off, as we eventually found the garage. Inside the workshop, I saw the other expedition, and recognised it instantly. It was the 180degrees Pole to Pole expedition. A couple of young English boys, who had been the youngest Britons to summit Everest, were going from the North to the South Pole by man power and wind. Unfortunately, the boys were nowhere to be seen, as we both wanted to speak to them about their experiences.

I found out later, that the boys were recieving honourary degrees from the University, and the Mayor of Mexico City had provided free hotel accomodation for the team. Suddenly, we felt quite envious, particularly as we were paying a fortune in hotel bills!

As it was already late, no work would be done on the wolf today, so we decided that we should drive back. We also arranged to leave the trailer in the customer parking upon our return. Without a hotel, Daniel and I returned to the Hotel in the Centre of the City, having still not checked out officially

That night, Daniel and I made plans for what we would do once we left Mexico City, and decided that if Land Rover Mexico City couldn't do much with our wolf, maybe the Land Rover garage in Belize would be able to do more, particularly as the Defender is sold in that country, and the British Army, who the wolf was designed for, have a garrison in the country.

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