Mexico City
Hotel Monte Carlo, Mexico City, 5th March
On my second day at the Hostel in Zacatecas a couple of guys riding from New Zealand turned up on their motorbikes. Jon and Josh had left San Francisco five weeks earlier and are heading for Rio on their Kawasaki KLRs. Their timetable for reaching Panama is more or less the same as mine so we’ve hooked up and spent the last few days traveling together. After couple of nights in Guanojuato, another beautiful colonial town and built in a narrow valley with a shocking one-way system and a terrible traffic problem, we left for the mountains near Angangueo, Michoacan state, to see the gathering of the wonderful Monarch butterflies. Or we intended to leave; having got our stuff together Josh’s bike wouldn’t start – he’d left the lights on. No problem, a bump aught to do it, but as it fired up petrol started pouring out. We had a look and found some bastard had ripped the fuel line off the carburetor. It took a couple of hours to figure out a repair so we didn’t make it to the butterflies that day. Next day, after a night in one of those motels that rent rooms by the hour, we set off again. This time we had to wait while the local bike mechanic straightened both of Josh’s wheels. He’d been up early tinkering and thought that tightening the spokes would be a good idea. So, it was three days before we saw the butterflies; millions of them, fluttering and gliding in pools of sunshine between the trees, gathering in huge orange swarms on tree trucks and branches and settling to drink from the small streams - looking like a carpet of constantly trembling orange leaves.
However, it turns out that Jon has lost his passport. Last seen when he opened his bag to give our websites to a guy we met in Guanojuato. So we’ll spend a couple of days here while Jon gets started on getting a new one issued. I can’t stay longer – I’m going to meet Nushka in Lima, Peru in about six and a half weeks. I’ll fly the bike from Panama City to Quito, Equador and ride from there to meet her on the 20th of April. Mileage 10438
On my second day at the Hostel in Zacatecas a couple of guys riding from New Zealand turned up on their motorbikes. Jon and Josh had left San Francisco five weeks earlier and are heading for Rio on their Kawasaki KLRs. Their timetable for reaching Panama is more or less the same as mine so we’ve hooked up and spent the last few days traveling together. After couple of nights in Guanojuato, another beautiful colonial town and built in a narrow valley with a shocking one-way system and a terrible traffic problem, we left for the mountains near Angangueo, Michoacan state, to see the gathering of the wonderful Monarch butterflies. Or we intended to leave; having got our stuff together Josh’s bike wouldn’t start – he’d left the lights on. No problem, a bump aught to do it, but as it fired up petrol started pouring out. We had a look and found some bastard had ripped the fuel line off the carburetor. It took a couple of hours to figure out a repair so we didn’t make it to the butterflies that day. Next day, after a night in one of those motels that rent rooms by the hour, we set off again. This time we had to wait while the local bike mechanic straightened both of Josh’s wheels. He’d been up early tinkering and thought that tightening the spokes would be a good idea. So, it was three days before we saw the butterflies; millions of them, fluttering and gliding in pools of sunshine between the trees, gathering in huge orange swarms on tree trucks and branches and settling to drink from the small streams - looking like a carpet of constantly trembling orange leaves.
However, it turns out that Jon has lost his passport. Last seen when he opened his bag to give our websites to a guy we met in Guanojuato. So we’ll spend a couple of days here while Jon gets started on getting a new one issued. I can’t stay longer – I’m going to meet Nushka in Lima, Peru in about six and a half weeks. I’ll fly the bike from Panama City to Quito, Equador and ride from there to meet her on the 20th of April. Mileage 10438
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