Southen Mexico

Trip Start Nov 2006
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Trip End Feb 2007


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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

It is amazing how the only thing dependable about our schedule is that it is always changing. When we left Molaque I was sure we would be making pretty close to Acapulco, but we barely pulled into Ziwatinejo before dark. It didn't help much that I spent the night being sick, so wasn't feeling like charging down the road that morning either.

We pulled into Ixtapa and cruised around there just long enough to get pulled over for going the wrong way through a turn around. Apparently there are some traffic rules down here. So after figuring out what we were being pulled over for, and asking kindly if the policeman would be willing to take the payment instead of us waiting to go court, we were back on the road. Come to find out later we could have paid nothing, or way less than we did and been just fine. Learning all the time.

We then decided that Ixtapa was most likely out of our price range so we proceded to the the town of Ziwatinejo, looking for a place to stay. We ended up finding this little place on the side of the road just outside of town, thinking it would be good and cheap. It was an odd looking place but what the hell, we were tired and anything would do at this point. The lady running the place came out, gave us a funny look, and then explained that we could have a room, but it was going to cost us 150 pesos (15 bucks) for 3 hours. Then it sunk in that this probably wasn't the place we wanted to hang out.

We made it back to Ziwat in the dark, which doesn't sound bad, but driving a motorcycle down here in the dark is not a good idea, and found a hotel where we could park our bikes. The next morning we went into town and found that Ziwat is a very cool place. Downtown is very busy, and driving there is nuts, but it was worth going in to check out.

On to Acapulco next!
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