Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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D.A. Good 1980 Journal Berkeley to San Bernardino, Calif 6 December Left Berkeley ca. 1400 with Dulce Rogers + Ed Heube for Mexico. Arrived San Bernardino late that evening + spent the night in a motel. San Bernardino Calif. to El Paso, Texas 7 December Drove all day today from ca. 0700 to 2300. Spent the night in a motel in El Paso. El Paso Texas to Mexico City, D.F., Mexico 8-9 December Changed money at the border, got insurance + took care of some other little matters + crossed the border into Juarez, Chihuahua at about 1200 (Juarez time). We then drove straight through to Mexico City, arriving at the Dirección de la Fauna Silvestre (where Ed and I needed to pick up our collecting permits) ca. 1300. We travelled along the following route: Juarez to Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua on Rte 45, then Rte. 49 to San Luis Potosi, S.L.P., then Rte 57 to Mexico City, D.F. On arriving at the Dirección, we found that the man in charge of permits was out and would not return until the next morning. We therefore rented a room in a hotel down the street + spent the night of Dec. 9-10 there. Mexico City, D.F. to Puerto Aristia, Chiapas 10 December We waited around in Mexico City until the permit man got to work ca. 1030. We then picked up my permit (Ed's was not there - they had never heard of him). We left ca. 1100 and headed for a collecting locality in Veracruz that Aube