Off Again and glad of it
Trip Start
Jun 23, 2009
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Trip End
Oct 19, 2009
San Gabriel Mixtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
Thursday, July 9, 2009
The hilss and flats were a mix of trees, bushes, banana, and cocanut palms mixed in with small plot cultivation. The plams must be harvested as in some places the plantations were quite large.
Now and again there were shallow lagoons filled with water hyacinth. I crossed numerous bridges some over dried up river beds, others green with growth but no water and some full of muddy brown water hurrying down to the nearby ocean.
Good mix of roads but still plenty of speed bumps, corregated corners and animals, goats donkies cows and dogs.
Had my first sit down and talk in Spanish of sorts, well absolutely no ingles!
Restaurante Casa Blanca
! At a stop for lunch. It wasn't exactly flowing and the dictionary was out.At Puerto Exondido it was thereatening to storm but I didn't want to stop at another seaside resort and as it was only 16:00 I decided to head up the 131 to Oaxaco. This I found out later was the old road (and it showed), plenty of broken surfaces and deep potholes.
Then of course the storm broke and I had to stop and drop my trousers to fit the liners. Wearing the liners when its hot is like sitting in baking foil.
Continued on up the mountain (Sierra Madre Miahautlan) more carefully and eventually came across San Gabriel Mistepec. Pulled into the hotel San Gabriel, out for a meal at the Casa Blanca then asked where I was.
It was my cheapest night $15 for the and $5 for a meal including a beer.
It sas an amazingly noisey place, the local scool was doing drum and trumpet marching practice and there appeared to be a PA system blaring out I don't know what over the town at regular intervals which started again at 7 in the morning.
