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, [...]
Filed under: Mexico on March 27th, 2007 | 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 by [...]
Filed under: Mexico on March 23rd, 2007 | 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 [...]
Filed under: Mexico on March 19th, 2007 | 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 [...]
Filed under: Mexico on March 15th, 2007 | 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 [...]
Filed under: Mexico on March 15th, 2007 | 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 [...]
Filed under: Mexico on March 4th, 2007 | No Comments »
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: General, Mexico on February 17th, 2007 | 1 Comment »