Up early, for us, HOT shower, then load up and back to same restaurant as dinner last night.\u00a0 Breakfast was a feast, and again we were treated like visiting royalty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Breakfast was served with brewed coffee with real heavy cream,\u00a0 sweet bread, local fresh cheese,\u00a0 fresh OJ – the works! Left there stuffed with food and carrying a free package of homemade cheese.<\/p>\n
Off towards Tuxtla Gutierrez, started out easy road, then back to crazy mountain madness.\u00a0 I took and outside turn a bit too fast, and was 5″\u00a0 from\u00a0 death.\u00a0 Fantastic mountain views, again.\u00a0 T.G. was a HUGH city, then more mountains to San Cristobel de las Casas.\u00a0 We did not linger here, either, but did visit a very weird Mirador in the center of town.<\/p>\n
The next stretch of road was like a mine-field:\u00a0un-marked topes, sand-traps, washouts, pot holes, trucks and traffic,\u00a0 cave-ins leaving only one lane passable, blind curves; again, it was like a driving computer game – but\u00a0 not so much fun in real life.\u00a0 At one point, we saw the on-coming cars waving at us to slow down;\u00a0 when we rounded a blind curve we saw that a tree had fallen, and downed a power line into the road.\u00a0\u00a0A local Mexican stood at the side of the road, and lifted the hot line with a wooded tree branch so cars, and us, could drive under it!<\/p>\n
Now we were climbing, steeply and steadily, for mile after mile after mile.\u00a0 Very few villages, till we started to reach the top of the world,\u00a0 maybe 8-9000 feet.\u00a0 Cold, damp.\u00a0 Now there were\u00a0vary tiny villages, where the women were all traditionally dresses, in dark blue shalls and dressed, each village with distinct shades and patterns.\u00a0 I saw one woman than had to be\u00a0 no more than 40 inches tall.\u00a0\u00a0 School-age kids in blue or red uniforms walking home from school.\u00a0 One village appeared to be in a volcanic crater, with a lake.\u00a0 All very cool.\u00a0 (picts to be added later).<\/p>\n
Passed some ridiculous road construction projects in the mountains – lord knows what they are building up there!<\/p>\n
We had to continue to drive after dark, and I ran out of gas;\u00a0 it appears that\u00a0 my bike will not use reserve.\u00a0 Levi’s bike if now running perfect.\u00a0 $5 part from another model bike fixed the problem!<\/p>\n
Got to Palenque after and hour of night driving.\u00a0 The town is a complete zoo, Burger King and\u00a0 all the rest.\u00a0 We rented a palapa for $10 a night, actaully inside the zona!\u00a0 Good\u00a0 spaghetti dinner\u00a0 for cheap, with lots of hippies to look at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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