Well that is one for the books. I left Mexico City before I wanted to in order to come down and meet back up with Mark and he finally replied to my text message that he is already 800 miles north and heading home. Happy New Year! If you fancy texting a [...]

I was really nervous about riding through Mexico City but made it only getting slightly lost twice. I decided to take the toll roads down to Oaxaca in order to make it down to Puerto Angel to meet back up with Mark for New Years Eve. It ended up costing 400 pasos (£20) [...]

I decided to spend another day in Mexico City as I haven’t been sleeping well and just wanted a lazy day practising my spanish lessons. This is a picture of the view of the place I am staying out over Mexico City. It was gorgeous at night. Thanks to Edmundo for letting [...]

On Sunday I went to the bike meet up which was pretty typical with guys doing wheelies up and down the main street with loads of bikes parked around. The rest of the day was spent catching up on my blog. The picture is of Edmundo with Fanny and her daughter.

Before I left Mexico City, Edmundo from the Hubb offered to show me the city so we went to Xochimilco meaning ‘the place where flowers grow’ and is an area of Mexico city claimed from a lake by the building of chinampas ‘floating gardens’. You can go and do a gondola tour stopping at [...]

I had mentioned to Mark (who I am riding with) that I thought it was a pity to be so close to Mexico City and not visit. So on Christmas morning he said that maybe we should split up for a while. My first reaction was dismay but after I got use to [...]

Christmas day was spent at Teotihuacan, 49km north of Mexico City, which has the third largest pyramid in the world and is a pretty impressive site.
I must admit that I am beginning to think that riding a bike around is a lot harder work than I had imagined it would be. I conveyed to [...]

We headed towards Mexico City stopping at Tula a Toltex site with ball courts and four huge warriors in black basalt. We then decided to follow the GPS which led us into a field on an non-existent road. Following a road between the fields and houses which was to gutters strewn with garbage [...]

Guanajuato is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Standing in a narrow gorge the city is a network of cobbled pavement and stoney walled underground streets. It is very European with outdoor dining and plazas to relax in. The main thing I wanted to see was the Valenciana mine which is suppose to be [...]

Airports offer a chapel for passengers to pray for safety. Today I noticed a small chapel at the service station and it doesn’t surprise me if drivers here are doing the same.
In Mexico you can either take the free roads (libre) or the toll roads (cuota). The toll roads are extremely expensive. [...]

The town of Tequila is surrounded by miles upon miles of acres of blue agave used for making tequila. The cactus looking plant takes ten years to mature a pineapple like centre which is baked, milled and distilled. The best tequila is 100% agave. Tequila used for mixing is 51% agave sugar [...]

We got up at six so that we could be on the bikes at first light to ride back up to San Blas as I had read that they did a jungle tour. It turned out to be a mangrove swamp tour to a crystal clear watering hole were I jumped in and [...]

The rest of the time in Los Ayala was spent swimming in a warm ocean, kyaking over to an island, drinking pina coladas, reading and hiking around. It still seemed like I didn’t have enough time to recuperate from the hard work of the road. This is my cut after a week of [...]

Mark’s sister’s boss has a place on the Pacific Coast of Mexico just north of Porta Vallatra which we decided to stay at for a couple of days. Originally it was only going to be 1 day but we spent most of the first day putting heated grips on my bike, deciding between [...]

Riding from Durango towards the coast is 200 miles of curves winding through many vertical-sided canyons including a narrow bridge with vertical drops on either side called the Devil’s Spine. Sometimes there are pine trees on either side giving you an illusion of safety but then you will come around a corner and [...]