Bustamante or Bust
 

Love reading about all of your adventures!! First time poster :)

Our Texas club is looking to make a road trip down to Butamante for a few days but more than a few are concerned with the safety of the travel (NL1) and that local area. I travel quite a bit in the Yucatan and in Coahuila and have never had a problem. Does anyone have any experience down that ways and can lend some advice?

:innocent:Go for it ; The NL 1 is excellent and lightly travelled , a quick entry from the Colombia Bridge . Good hotels in Anahuac 80km to south , so don't wimp out and stay overnight in Laredo Texas . There are NO hotels in Colombia on either side of the border .
Riding north from either of the Laredo to hit NL 1 at COLOMBIA is very amateurish ,not in keeping with adventure motorcycling . If you hit the border late get a hotel in Nvo Laredo and in the morning ride west out of that city on Tam 1 which runs straight into the NL 1,east of Anahuac.

Anahuac has very nice hotels and the Los Abuelitos restaurant will give you great food. It is situated on east side of NL1 and at south end of the bridge over the dry creek that separates the town into its north and south parts. The north part lies all west of the highway and it has a very modern and tidy arrangement around a circular central plaza .The Plaza Real Hotel on north side of that plaza is great, has lots of secure parking for bikes. If you guys need more rooms then the older Hotel Anahuac & Restaurant on the highway east of Centro and beside Pemex is also worth recommending , And the Casa Grande Hotel cabins is very luxe and well off the road and railroad east of the NL 1 just south of the old rr station .

South of Anahuac you will eventually pass the NL80/Coah 30 exit which runs west to Monclova .Just west of the exit you can see the castle-like structure of the abandoned railway station , Estacion Candela , which is worth a short visit, no services though. The railroad is run by Kansas City Southern , a lot of freight trains only .

Bustamente has various tourist lodgings for Canyon visitors. Vilaldama 6km south of the Bustamente exit on NL 1 also has motels and Oxxo .
NL 26 runs east from Vilaldama to Sabinas Hidalgo and Mex 85.This is an alternate route one might use from the east to reach Bustamente

Sjoerd,

You are a deep well of Mexican knowledge. The HUBB is lucky to have your continued contributions. I hope we meet up one day.

Thanks ,Peter, :smartass: but SARugby the o.p. has not come back to haul up his bucket to read the answer to his question .
O r so it seems judging by his total lack of acknowledgment. No reply to a pm either when I asked him if he had read it .
Perhaps yet another one of those questioners who like chipmunks bury food and forget where .A one post wonder never to be heard from again ???

SA Rugby - where aaaaare yoouuu ?