Velowander

I can't access Blogger at this internet cafe, so I will try posting by e-mail. I don't know if this will work.

 

We left Tijuana yesterday on Tuesday. We ended up riding part of the way on highway 1D toll road which is forbidden for bikes, because the other road dead ended in a village. It is a shame because 1D has a shoulder unlike the regular hwy 1 which does not.

 

We have been using our Katadyn Vario water filter to treat tap water to drink. After we filter it, I have been putting in 1 drop of concentrated bleach to kill viruses, which a filter doesn't stop.

 

We spent the last night in La Mision on the way to Ensenada. Our riding distance is of course constrained by available daylight. The north part of Mexico has quite a bit of trash and is rather barren, but the poverty is less than I expected. The waves of trucks, when they occur, can be quite heavy and there is no shoulder so it rattles us. At other times, traffic is quite light.

 

We spoke to a gringo in the La Magana restaurant in La Mision who told us the terrain is barren and there isn't much to see between Ensenada and Santa Rosalita, so he suggested we take a bus to Santa Rosalita and ride from there. Today we rode from La Mision to Ensenada on the regular hwy 1, which is only about 45km however it was quite hilly so it was a good ride for us.

 

I got a Mexican number with Telcel, please use it only for important calls. It took a long time in the queue and then various procedures to get the SIM for my mobile.

 

We are taking care of errands in Ensenada then we plan to take a bus to Santa Rosalita tonight. They said they would take our bikes but we don't know specifics or cost yet. The ticket itself is 800-some pesos which struck me as expensive but probably better for us than riding through the desert. I got enough desert in Nevada to last me a while.