Woke to rain, again!\u00a0 Made a bad choice on where to go to breakfast, and wasted a bunch of time.\u00a0 Gassed up at Flores, then off to the south.\u00a0 Good road, bad weather.<\/p>\n
Somewhere between Modesto Mendosa and Castillo de San Fellipe, I lost control on a wet curve, and went off the road, into a concrete drainage ditch, and ended up against a large bolder on the side of the road.\u00a0 By some miracle, I was not badly hurt, and the bike sustained no damage.\u00a0 Out of nowhere, a truckload of Guatemalans appeared to help me get the bike back up out of the ditch.\u00a0 After a quick field-dressing for the small hole in my right calf, we continued south to an ugly cross-roads town called La Ruidosa.<\/p>\n
There we hit a new low, as far as bad hotels go.\u00a0 Cigarette butts on the floor, broken out windows, and huge lizards living in the bathroom widow.\u00a0 No hot water, bad beds… this place had it all.\u00a0 But I had the shakes bad,\u00a0and was cold and wet and sore and tired, so we had to stop.\u00a0 Lots of pain meds, and I was able to sleep.<\/p>\n
The leg injury really was not too bad;\u00a0 my right shoulder and ribs are bruised and very sore.\u00a0 But it was really amazing that I was not more badly injured here.\u00a0 “Que milagro” is the first thing\u00a0I said when I got up off the ground!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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