Me other bikes a horse...

Wooden saddles are even more uncomfortable then leather ones.

Views from the road - Oaxaca to Puerto Escondido

Puerto Escondido - Tubes & Dumpers

The holidays ruined - Monte Alban

Oaxaca, City of Churches... and Chocolate

I ate the chocolate before i got a chance to take a picture... but here are some pretty dominican churches

Coastal Camping

Camping under a Palapa

Hammocking by the side of the road

Big Sur a la Mexicana

The coast line here is just like the coast around Big Sur Calafornia, except the hills are bigger and steeper and well everyones mexican...

Mexican Maddness - Fireworks

So a guy with a flaming horse goes into a crowd and starts spinning around shooting off streams of flaming rockets... the kids scream with delight and everybody runs... loco

Towering inferno mexican style, pity it's not lit up in the photo... but you get the idea.

New Camera!

Q: What have i been up too for the last few weeks?
A: Not much... lazing around at the beach, staying with a local couchsurfer in Puerto Vallarta (www.couchsurfing.com it's the thing to do when travelling...)
- The couch

Fredo, Abi & Alex (I have been cycling with Alex for a while now but we split in PV)

What the camera missed...

Cameras can´t see everything, can´t see what mexico smells or sounds like... interested... no!? well I´ll tell you, it smells just like anywhere else and sounds at least 83db louder.

The people are among the friendliest and most accomodating you´ll find anywhere, the food is absolutely delicious so long as you like meat beans and tortillas, and along the coast the seafood has been wonderful too.

The roads are frightening in places and cycling in the midday heat is only to be attempted by mad dogs, most of whom in my experience end up as roadkill.

More updates to come...

Just Imagine...

Just imagine what Mexico looks like... you´ll have to because my camera has broken.

Crazy Carnival Floats

Carnival in Mazatlan, apparently the 3rd biggest celebration of Carnival in the world, started officially way back in 1898 and is a great excuse to party every night for a week...

Views from the road...

Cycling along the toll highway hasn't been that scenic, (Never ending corn fields) but 2 lanes a shoulder and only moderate traffic was wonderful after the horrors of Baja California.

Possibly a cemetery in the corn field?? More birds then you can poke a stick at
Civilization and beach in Mazatlan

Camping in Mexican

In a Police station
In a Pemex Petrol stationand in a hammock

Copper Canyon - more snow

We took the train over from La Paz to Los Mochis, and then tried and failed to take our bikes on the train to Creel in the Copper Canyon, so we decided to go without the bikes. It would have been cold and the riding exceedingly steep, I'll have to come back someday. Though we did end up hiring a bike for the day when we got there.

More Baja.

A Blizzard of Buzzards - (Turkey Vultures) probably due to the great abundance of road kill Topiary - their mad on it.

The Loreto Mission - The first mission in California, founded by the Jesuits in 1697.

That road again - Baja Sur

Yes Sur

The scenery has begun to improve dramatically as cross over to south (sur) Baja

Christmas 2007

I spent Christmas at Coyote Cal's Hostel (near the town of Erendira, Baja California)