After leaving behind the butterflies and Michoacan, we entered the state of Mexico and stayed in its capital, Toluca. Although it was only a little over 90 km of riding between Zitacuaro and Toluca, we took two days because we hit another endless hill the first day out of Zitacuaro, where we went straight up, […]
Posted by Matthew on March 27th, 2007 | Filed under: Mexico | No Comments »
Between Morelia and Zitacuaro were two pretty tough biking days. Adding to the pain of riding, was the delay of two days in a row with flat tires, including our first mid-ride change The first day we had to climb the Pasa de Mil Cumbres (Pass of 1000 Peaks). We were hemmed in […]
Posted by Matthew on March 23rd, 2007 | Filed under: Mexico | 4 Comments »
The road east from Uruapan took us through the towns of Patzcuaro and Morelia, the capital of Michoacan. The centro of Patzcuaro is very uniform—all the signs above the businesses are painted in the same style, kind of like a Mexican version of the Bavarian village of Leavenworth, WA. Patzcuaro, in addition for being known […]
Posted by Matthew on March 19th, 2007 | Filed under: Mexico | No Comments »
We just uploaded our first set of photos from the mainland of Mexico, which can be seen in the photo gallery here. I’m a little behind on the GPS stuff. We did check out some of the KML files in Google Earth though, and if you look at some of the days between El Rosario […]
Posted by Matthew on March 15th, 2007 | Filed under: Mexico | No Comments »
We are now in the state of Michoacan where the best ice cream in the world is made. Tomorrow, we are going to Patzcuaro where the best ice cream in Michoacan is made. I am already salivating just thinking about it.
Michoacan has treated us very well so far. The scenery is beautiful. Our rides take […]
Posted by cindy on March 15th, 2007 | Filed under: Mexico | 3 Comments »
Hola from Guadalajara! When we left Tepic a few days ago, we had a goal—to make it to Guadalajara in four days time so we could see a futbol match with one of Guadalajara’s two teams, the Chivas (goats). We didn’t know it at the time, but the three days of riding we did between […]
Posted by Matthew on March 4th, 2007 | Filed under: Mexico | No Comments »