Travel makes you smarter.
Dodging speeding semis and bulldozer tractors amid heavy construction on a road with no shoulder, watching a drunk Mexican girl take a pee in the hotel and getting stung by a black scorpion are all fun things to do in the summertime; but all in one day?
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.
Beautiful campsite We were on the road before 6:00 am today and stopped a few times for various refrescos (refreshments). Our ride was a wonderful and cool breeze along the seaside. By 2:30 in the afternoon, we’d traveled close to 60 km and agreed on a well deserved break. So half way between Villa Madera [...]
It was still nice and cool out after only about three hours of pedaling, so it was a pleasant 60 km (37 mi) ride from Pomuch. We arrived in Campeche mid-morning along a beautiful breezy ocean-side roadway which is partnered with a really lovely all-purpose path that actually had three separate lanes: one for bikes, one for skates and one for walking. So healthy!
Famous bakery Our room at the mini-palace was just too hot to even try to sleep so we attempted to sleep outside on the terrace. It was quite pleasantly cool but the sucking mosquitoes were too thick to try and ignore. So we went out back to the tall green grass, pitched our tent and [...]
The house that slavery built We woke up at 4:30 am, nice and early and left our private little apartment through the restaurant, locking the door on the way out and tossing the keys back inside through the window. We stopped in the main square and found Jesús asleep in his churro tent. We decided [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
