Canella Beach Hotel Gosier

It's a cool wet morning, just like home. I get the bike out of the ballroom and head off fully suited into the mountains. I manage to get onto the free roads again, I must be getting the hang of it.
Once again there are whisps of white clouds drifting above and below, and really high black ones dropping on me! This is probably the best road so far (Mex 190) to Santa Domingo Tehauntepec, really good surface well generally ...

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... Int**essant war auch das alte Marktgebäude. B**eits zur frühen Stunde bieten dort die V**käuf**innen und V**käuf** ihre Ware feil. Die eigentliche Sehenswürdigkeit d** Gegend ist jedoch d** angrenzende Monte Alban. Auf dessen Gipfel, rund 2000 m.ü.M., befindet sich eine d** grossartigsten Pyramidenanlagen Mexicos. Das einstige Kulturzentrum d** Zapoteken wurde ca. 500-200 v.Chr. auf ein** k ...

... decorations on the intact roofs....this was the home of Pakal one of the greatest kings, we saw the exquisite sculptured sarcophagus in the museum.......it weighed 10 tons. We moved to private buses as gave us flexibility to stop a waterfalls en route to San Crisobal. We went swimming at Agua Azul falls which was special as something we haven't done before. San Crisobal was very cold indeed as in the mountains, so chose to do horse riding ...

Well no trip report from MX would be complete with out a discussion on Topes. We North Americans would refer to them as Speed bumps. If you drive in Mexico you will quickly learn not to ignore any sign that looks like or is spelled like tope. I have seen them called Tope, Tope, Topas, and Reductors. All are designed with one thing in mind, to slow traffic or create and accident if you don´t slow. They are made ...

On to Puerto Arista, a relative metropolis, plenty of shops, some of them even open! Out of high season seaside towns tend to only fully open at weekends when the city dwelling Mexican hordes descend. Found a nice little place near a smelly lagoon and not far from the beach, but sadly, as often happens in Mexico, the workers started banging around at 6am - because it´s really hot later, they start work early but with no concern for their sleeping clients.

Just a stop over in this small town, where a Saturday night is spent drinking until falling asleep in the streets. It was quite funny arriving there so late, everyone just coming to us so drunk and talking to us and then after one hour seeing them sleeping outside. This time has not much apart from good hot dogs, we went to eat them at a stand where they were showing a Mexican boxing game, and i had to stasy the whole 11 rounds and cheer up with the locals...

... here so after getting permission from the local lifesaver we boondocked right on the side of the road under the shade of a huge tree. We also met a local guy Carlos, who offered us the use of his well and it's nice fresh water 50 meters down the lane. Our friend Vern carries a bit of dry dog food and befriends and feeds the undernourished uncared for local dogs as we go along. None of us were prepared for the sight in the morning ...

We arrived here in the afternoon. First we were looking for Darinel´s family, the guy that got pneumonia and maybe Tuberculosis that was gonna come with us. He had sent some things, a DVD player, chainsaw, sewing machine and a small suitcase. But the thing is, neither Galación nor Bolívar knew where he lived. We did have a small poorly ...

... thief is a thief in any culture and she should pull the blinders from her eyes. Eventually I cooled down and we wandered back to the beach. Then it was kind of magical because as we sat on the beach drinking beer and eating Mexican junk food, we noticed lights on the sand, which turned out to be plankton that becomes phosoresant (sp?) and washes up with the tide. Very cool and a romantic night but Innis wants nothing to do with me ...