A quick entry this morning before we get on the road to the Guatemala border.
We covered about 350 miles yesterday with the first 150 of it pretty uneventful touring through the mountains and decending to the Pacific Ocean. The temperature went from mild to moist and we both were commenting (read as: whining) about the humidity out on the flats near the ocean.
Our GPS (which has about 7 year old maps for Mexico) and our crappy maps didn’t do us too well and we got lost for a little while. After some discussion and some “I don’t give a sh*t – just try something” sort of back and forth – we just began using compass directions and eventually got back on track.
We hit some construction and things slowed to a grinding halt. About 2 hours of bad traffic trying to get back into Tuxtla after a 3 day weekend and the road conditions were ugly with a capital “U”. We rolled into Tuxtla about 5:30 and were pretty beat after 8+ hours of riding/gassing/riding/gassing. John likes to continues the “gassing” part even after the ride is over…
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We will throw up some pictures at our next internet availability – in the mean time, I also answered some questions people have asked and you can see them here on the FAQ page. It’s hard to keep up with everyones questions – so be patient - we’ll try to get to them.
Also: NO RAIN yet – so all guesses up to and including Feb 2 are worth about as much as all those Superbowl numbers you had… zippo!
Cheers!
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