We made it to Tepic…just barely. To finish the saga of our journey from Mazatlan—we rode for two more days on the nearly finished toll road without much in the way of traffic. Seemed like every other time we stopped to rest in the shade of an overpass, some highway worker was coming over to [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 27th, 2007 | No Comments »
We are on the mainland and back on the bikes after a long (16 hr) ferry ride from La Paz to Mazatlan. We went the cheap route and didn’t get a cabin for the overnight ferry. The cabin might have been worth the extra money as we ended up sleeping on the floor in the [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 23rd, 2007 | No Comments »
We are finally leaving La Paz this morning, a little later than we anticipated. It turns out our information about the frequency of the ferries to Mazatlan was a little out of date, so we had to wait a few extra days for the next boat to leave. The ferry terminal is actually north of [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 19th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One of my lesser known talents is changing the words to songs to fit my own perspective. It started as a way to divert my attention from the subzero cold while walking home after classes at the U of MN. One of my first songs was about the mac and cheese I was looking forward [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We thought while we had a moment in La Paz, we’d write a little post giving you an idea of what our days are like. We’ve kind of gotten into a routine on our biking days that seems to be working for us so far. As you might imagine, when we’re on the bike, most [...]
Filed under: General, Mexico on February 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
Well, we finally made it to La Paz, after 4 weeks and over 1200 km of cycling! We have had several firsts since our last post—our first 7-day consecutive stretch of cycling, our first day averaging over 20 km/h (amazing what you can do when riding downhill with a tailwind), and our first rear tire [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, we’ve spent the last four nights camping. First in an RV park in Mulege where we got some laundry done and ate tacos. Then we spent two nights on the public beach of Playa Coyote (pic above) in Bahia Conception next to about a million US and Canadian RVs and Campers. Last night we [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 9th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
We pulled into Santa Rosalia today just before dusk, after two grueling days of battling fierce headwinds and hills (we didn’t even get any rest on the downhills). I’ve been downloading the GPS data from the bike computer daily, and I usually give a check to see if we’re picking up wireless, and sure enough, [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 4th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We ended up spending three nights in Guerrero Negro waiting out the storm that came through. The first day, even though there was evidence of rain in the air, we decided to go whale watching in the afternoon. Had we known at this point we were going to stay an extra day, we probably [...]
Filed under: Mexico on February 2nd, 2007 | 2 Comments »