Travel makes you smarter.
Our second day over the one hundred kilometer mark since arriving in Mexico almost six months ago; more than six hours of saddle humping found us without a place to stay in the middle of nowhere. With a little luck, a few smiles and a bit of diplomacy we were able to secure shelter from the night before it got dark.
We liked the turtle camp so much we even thought of staying another night and playing on the shallow crystal ocean rocks in front of the fancy abandoned bungalows or we considered just lying around under the palapas on the beach. Since we didn’t have any real food with us and you don’t get lucky and meet people who treat you to a delicious dinner every night, we opted to push on toward our next stop. Sabancuy was our destination, travel our motivation as we pointed our bicycles with thoughtful consideration.
What another great day today: cycling among beautiful seaside scenery, finding a sweet camping spot under a beach palapa and scoring a delicious dinner from complete strangers! The sun hung low and red as we sat on the beach with full bellies, rested and happy… ready to listen to another Red Ice Radio podcast before falling asleep.
Feet in the air, fish in the pouch! Splash! Splash! It’s early morning on the Gulf of Mexico and the pelicans are already out fishing. They snatch up to two kilograms of fresh fish a day. That’s a lot of fish so they need to start early. The Brown Pelican that inhabits the Celestún waters [...]
Tiger bird in Jaltun park Celestún is a small town in southeastern Mexico in the very northwestern corner of the Yucatán peninsula right at gulf of Mexico just about 1000 km (625 mi) due south of New Orleans. The blue waters, green trees and white sands offer an incredibly diverse ecosystem due to the mixing [...]
Dryness and the Wheel We took a little tour south of the town today with the general goal of finding a deserted ghost town kinda place we read about. We located it on Google Earth and created a route to it from our hotel which we uploaded to our GPS. So finding the place was [...]
I like you, do you wanna play? We only spent one moldy night puking in the terrible Santa Lucia Hostel and packed up our stuff Thursday morning to head down the way to the Nomadas Hostel. On the way Steven spotted something else, a guest house across the street with a cute little sign: “Casa [...]
Cute little floppy-eared scared sweetie Merida loop – day 8 and 9: Yesterday we took another rest day in Tecoh. We rode around the area and found a cenote but a bunch of people were swimming there and we didn’t want to crash their party so we explored a few kilometers of the bike route [...]
The hotel we slept at, and thankfully they never knew Merida loop – day 3: Our friend the little cute puppy with the cool blue eyes was sleeping soundly when we woke up in the morning, probably because he was alert guarding us all night. Well done young sentinel. Dawn is breaking and all’s well.
Can I sleep in your tent, please? Look how sweet I am. Merida loop – day 2: Quite chilly in the tent last night. Steven tried to go the whole night with just a cotton sheet but had to break out the sleeping bag early in the morning. It was nice to fall asleep with [...]
