I hate to break the news to everyone but I will not be doing updates until I get home. It has been so frustrating first trying to find a computer and then sitting down and finding every other button does not work or sitting there for an hour typing it up and then somehow loosing it all. I know waiting until I get home kind of misses the point of updates but that is how it has to be. I would love to tell everyone where I am at right now but that would ruin the suspense.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Monday, February 11, 2008
Text Message Update 2008-02-11
In mazatlan. I think i am done updating. It is too frustrating.
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Text Message Update 2008-02-10
In Manzanillo. I tried to update today but the computer sucks.
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Update Day 29, 375 Miles
February 8, 2008
It was a sad day. Even though most of the people here were freaks it was still nice just to hang out and do nothing. I know, I do nothing at home but, here no one told me I need to get off my ass and do something.
I left the hotel at 9am and finally got out of town about 30 minutes later. In my few days off I must have forgotten how to ride and navigate because I made every wrong turn possible trying to get out of a town that is no more that a square half mile. Anyway once out of San Pedro it was a tight twisty road that turns back on itself about 50 times as you rise out of the valley. It was a little rough for the first part of the day but I survived. It was really nice once on the main road as the temperature was cool and the sun was shining. As I got near the border of Mexico the elevation dropped and the temps increased.
By the time I reached the border at 12:45 it was 95 degrees and I was not looking forward to waiting in lines. As I got to the border and the building to exit Guatemala it was very crowded with people but lucky for me they were just locals. I took 5 minutes to exit Guatemala and another 10 minutes to enter Mexico. That’s right, I said 15 minutes total. I could not believe it but I was not going to question in either.
From the border it was bout an hours ride to the town of Huixla. Here it was time I had lunch. As I rode along you could smell all of the food cooking on the grill by the side of the road. I stopped off and had some great Chicken Asado and actually got to have some real hot sauce with it now that I am back in Mexico. After lunch I made my way towards the town of Juchitan and arrived as the sun was going down at 6:30.
I found a decent hotel, checked in, took a shower and hit the town. I found the town square which is where all the activity is in every town here. I walked around for a little while and finally decided to eat some tacos. It was some kind of meat but I can’t be sure what it exactly was but it was good. I tried to do some updating but every place was closing down for the evening and so did I.
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Update Day 28, 0 Miles
February 27, 2008
It was another day of lounging around in San Pedro. All of the other days here have been full of sunshine but not today. It is clouded in but not like it was going to rain. Around noon I took a 20 minute boat ride to Santiago, another town that is obviously on the lake. It was supposed to be a tourist town but I did not care for it too much. The only thing that was very touristy was the line of local souvenir stores that lined the street as you get off the boat. I did go up to the town square and it was full of locals. I tried to get a picture of four men sitting on a bench dressed in the local attire but as soon as I brought my camera out they took their hats off and covered their faces.
Later on that evening it was dinner and a movie. On a recommendation I skeptically went to watch Little Miss Sunshine. Much to my surprise it was a very funny movie.
Pictures will have to wait as the computer I am on is a piece of crap.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Update Day 27, 0 Miles
February 6, 2008
I am still in San Pedro at Lake Atitlan. It is nice to just sit around and do nothing for a little while. I am not sure on when I will be leaving but it will either be Thursday or Friday now.
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Update Day 26, 0 Miles
My plan is to leave in the morning and head for Mexico but you never know, I might have a life changing revelation and never leave.
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Update Day 25, 203 Miles
I usually start each update with my 7am wake up but not today. Today’s update is going to start with my 1am wake up. As it turns out the temperature continued to drop during the night and I turned into a Popsicle underneath the one sheet on the bed. Luckily they did have spare blankets which helped a little but not enough. When I finally woke back up in the morning the temperature was a little bit more tolerable but still cold, 48 degrees.
It is about noon now and I am getting hungry when I get to the town of Sacapulas. I pass a small shack of a place that is cooking something. At this point I figure it is probably good food even though it looks like a place I will get sick at. I turn around, park the bike and pull up a chair at a table. I ask the lady for a menu and she tells me Carne Asada. I guess you get whatever she and her four daughters are cooking at the time. She brings me a plate of meat, beans and rice as they all watch me like I am the side show at the local circus, which I probably am. For the second meal in a row the food was fantastic. I even have a glass of the Horchata made from the local water which scared the hell out of me but it tasted good anyway.
I arrive in San Pedro at 4:15 and locate the hotel that another guy from the Adventure Rider Internet group that I frequent is staying. I meet up with John who is here taking some Spanish classes for a few weeks. He takes me on a tour of the town which turns out to be mostly gringos and 99% of them are the Hippie type. I have never seen so many people with dirty hair and baggy clothes in my life. Later on in the evening we are at a bar by the name of Buddha Bar. Lucky for me it is open mic night and I get to hear all of the world’s problems, in bad song form. I got to hear one girl sing about how every man she ever loved ended up hurting her in the end. I finally had enough when some guy started singing about how we are destroying the earth, giving his political views and telling us how everything is wrong. I turned to John and said it is time to leave. I am the type of person who does not believe in telling you my problems so why in the world would I want to hear yours being sung like a damn three year old. Anyway, we head out to another bar, have a few more beers and call it quits sometime around midnight.
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Update Day 24, 244 Miles
It seems like my body has reset it’s internal clock which wakes me up at 7am every day. I hope for my sake it is not permanent! My hotel for the night also included breakfast so I decided to eat it since I paid for it. It was the worst meal yet. It looked like it was leftovers from days past. I just moved it around the plate for a while then decided to leave.
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Sunday, February 3, 2008
Text Message Update 2008-02-03
In Guatamala. In the mountains at a lodge type hotel. First hotel witout tv and it is Superbowl. Will be in Lake Atitlan tomorrow.
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