La Toubana Ste. Anne

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 ...

... Zipolitega huvasti j2tta viis Jade ja Jorge kiire otsus ka oma teekonda Guatemala poole j2tkata...kellel samuti illegaalseks muutumise oht v6i kellel lihtsalt maastiku muutust vaja... j2rgmised kahe p2eva jagu aega mooduvad maanteid kulutades ja poidlakuuti puudes, omades omajagu p2ikesekuumust, kuivusest kipitavat kurku ja kripeldavat n2lga...tunde oodates ning tunde r2ndavas "camionetas" veetes, samm j2llegi kuhugi l2hemale... esimene 66 v66rsil viis meid rahulikult ...

... 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 ...

... trip !!! hot water was an occassional luxury as was furniture other than a very soft bed, we both ended up in the middle......BUT HEY.......this is what travelling is all about....isn't it ? people were friendly, the markets were colourful and the food interesting !! but cheap. We did enjoy a few beers though. We went to see Uxmal ruins which we didn't think could surpass Chichen Itza......but they did as it in a jungle setting with 75 ...

... concrete, blacktop, rebar, truck tire recaps, large diameter rope, and any other thing that is sturdy and will reach across both lanes and on to the shoulder. Some are well marked, some are not marked at all! Being on a bike makes going over them at a reasonable speed (faster than most other vehicles) easier than in others. If you hit one of these with out seeing the sign or with out having a sign there, and ...

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...

... formed by sediment deposited over the years. We spotted a couple of crocs on the way home, the driver floated us right up to within a couple of meters of one "statue" sunning itself on some driftwood. Some of the people including Larry couldn't see it, but as soon as he got a sniff of it he tried to climb out the other side of the boat. After the tour and lunch our little convoy of 3 headed through the city of Tuxla Guiterrez and after ...

... map, and we knew to go the entrance of the city and look for a certain restaurant, and then to go down the street and ask for the Castillo family. So we found some Castillos but the guy seemed to not remember the names of his nephews that had gone "to the other side" or "al Norte" (to the North). So we continued on to the other ...

... mezcals and tequilas and having the same conversations over and over: "where have you been so far", "where are you going next", "where are you staying" etc etc. The following morning we woke at 8am (after 4hrs sleep), with no hangover and no tiredness all day. We have been trying to work out why...and havent got a good reason yet. After a quick dip, we hopped on the next bus out of PE heading east and ...