{"id":279,"date":"2009-01-03T18:48:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T02:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2009-01-06T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T19:22:36","slug":"jan-1-zihauntanejo-to-san-marcos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/03\/jan-1-zihauntanejo-to-san-marcos\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan. 1 &#8211; Zihauntanejo to San Marcos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Got a late start, as usual.\u00a0 Cold showers;\u00a0 good breakfast across the street from our hotel.\u00a0 Fresh squeezed OJ; what a treat.\u00a0 Walked to playa for picts, then easy out of town.\u00a0 Easy trip to Acapulco, except for the bullshit toll road.\u00a0 Somehow I got stung by a bee while riding, and it hurt like hell for a long time. Levi wanted to drive through Acapulco, just to see it, and it was the overcrowded zoo you would expect.\u00a0 Persons crammed onto the beach like sardines in a can.<\/p>\n<p>We did good getting out of town and back on mx-200, until I hit an un-marked topes from hell (speed bump) at 50 mph, and got both wheels off the ground.\u00a0 Definitely an unexpected and unwanted thrill.\u00a0 Levi said he wished he had a video of it.<\/p>\n<p>We stopped at a little town called San Marcos, in Oaxaca state, at dark.\u00a0 We both had enough topes for one day.\u00a0\u00a0 We found a $15 motel room, with a nice pool and air conditioning.\u00a0 Had to settle on lengue tacos for dinner (not my favorite), but SanMarcos turned out to be such a friendly town.\u00a0 One family at the restaurant tried to flirt with Levi and get him interested in their 20 year old daughter.\u00a0 A very nice experience here;\u00a0 everyone seems to love US citizens;\u00a0 can&#8217;t imagine why!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a late start, as usual.\u00a0 Cold showers;\u00a0 good breakfast across the street from our hotel.\u00a0 Fresh squeezed OJ; what a treat.\u00a0 Walked to playa for picts, then easy out of town.\u00a0 Easy trip to Acapulco, except for the bullshit toll road.\u00a0 Somehow I got stung by a bee while riding, and it hurt like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[6,9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longridesouth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}