Category: Travel
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Mexico : Oaxaca → Guatemala : July 2016
It can be draining to be a solo traveller who stands out distinctly from the locals. I’ve had some taste of what it must be like to be a celebrity; gawked at by nearly everyone, and continuously approached by maybe 5% of these strangers, asking the same things over and over and over again.…
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Mexico : Mexico City → Oaxaca : July 2016
When we’re very young, all experiences are profoundly new, and limit expanding. As we get older, this is decreasingly so. Our ability to experience becomes more sophisticated, and correspondingly the experiences that we can consider limit expanding become more elusive. At some point, the basic experience becomes insufficient to expand limits and we use the…
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Mexico : Bosque Villiage → Mexico City : July 2016
I leave Bosque Village and grab some food from a stall in the nearby town of Erongacuario, then continue on another 20km to Patzcuaro, stopping in to check out the Temple of Santa Muerte. It’s been a relatively short ride, but I’m feeling pretty low energy and strongly considering calling it a day when it…
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Mexico : Guadalajara → Bosque Village : June 2016
I take a day to see the sights of Guadalajara, which is by some measures the second largest city in Mexico, but has a core that’s easy to cover by bicycle and contains most all of the notable museums and cathedrals. So, that’s what I do. Standard tourist stuff. I took some 3D photos which…
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Mexico : Puerto Vallarta → Guadalajara : June 2016
I spend a down day in Puerto Vallarta: Walk the Malecon, happen upon the cap hill (gay) neighborhood and have brunch, then buy $1.50 flip flops. I take an awesome afternoon nap, then a long food-walk with the new flip flops (mixed results), then I happen to catch the end of game 7 of the…
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Mexico : San Blas → Puerto Vallarta : June 2016
I spend the day in San Blas, eating from 5 different places and taking a surf lesson from Stoner’s surf school. My instructor is not the longboard champion that is advertised (and runs the place and speaks english fairly fluently), but a young guy that speaks little english. All the same, the lesson is well…
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Mexico : Mazatlan → San Blas : June 2016
I was all but decided that I would take a hiatus from the bike tour, flying home to Seattle from Mexico City to wait out the heat come mid-July. The seed was planted as I started my North-South traverse of the Sonoran desert, and the notion flowered as I took on this arid expanse, day…
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Mexico : Topolobampo → Mazatlan : June 2016
It’s really funny how some prejudice mixed with a little lack of friendliness can taint an impression of a place. Yes, Sinaloa is home to the worlds most powerful cartel, but does that mean that it’s a bad place to tool around on a bicycle? I think I was reasoning “well, it can’t mean that…
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Mexico : Hermosillo → Topolobampo : May 2016
I say goodbye to Moises, and as we part ways, so too do I return to the shameless ways of a budget vagabond. I buy breakfast makings, along with calories for the trip to Guaymas, at the near by Walmart, and eat them under the shade of a tree near an entrance to its parking…
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Mexico : Santa Ana → Hermosillo : May 2016
I’ve got good 3G-ish coverage in Mexico so far, but not a lot of WiFi/broadband, and the only real grief I have with WordPress and blogging from my phone is around the pictures I try to include in the blog posts and what a crappy job the WordPress android app does of uploading them. The…
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