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Re: Uxmal Ruins Yup, the entire town is all one way cobblestone streets and tunnels. One of the most unique places I've ever been. Guanajuato is definitely a place to put on your radar if you ever make it all the way down here.

Nice! Even though I'm partial to the ST, the KLR will definitely take you places the ST won't. Have fun mate.

We had this happen a few times in the same month coming down the Pacific coast. First time I think the timer ran out. The second time we got locked out was because we made several attempts to use the card at a gas station. The transaction at the pump didn't go through the first time, so I tried...

Re: Uxmal Ruins Taking a break on the steps of the House of the Governor. No dwarfs in sight to challenge, probably a good thing since I forgot my magic tortilla. Considering when all this was built it's quite impressive. There was so much thought given to the orientation of every building...

Uxmal Ruins We've gone from 1400km's in 4 days to about 200km's in nearly 3 weeks. Taking this “slow” thing to a new level, we put down another exhausting day riding a whopping 83km’s from Merida to Uxmal (pronounced oosh-mahl). Lori found another excellent deal online at a hotel only 2km’s...

Cathedral de San Ildefonso, built using stones from ruined Mayan pyramids and temples, it was completed in 1598, making it the oldest cathedral on the continent. Peeking inside the cathedral. Some of the 5-0 were riding bigger bikes. Out with the old, in with the new! A new...

Re: Happy Holidays So with a few shells, some photos and an abundance of mosquito and ant bites we hit the road again. Just wanted to point out that we got more skeeter bites here than Newfoundland and Alaska combined O_o ! Moving inland we had an exhausting 30 minute ride to Merida on perfect...

Happy Holidays We’ve mentioned a couple of times that we had hit a low spot on our travels. I’m not going to belabour the low points though because we’ve already kind of flogged that horse. We have been overwhelmed with the positive energy, comments and votes of confidence we have received from...

Not every road is paved with gold In the hope that some sun and beach time would lift our spirits we booked an ocean front condo in the Yucatán over Christmas and spent the next few days motoring east. Something we would later come to regret, not only because we blew through 8 states in...

Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Back when we visited the Geo Centre in St John’s, Newfoundland, we saw Flight of the Butterflies, a fantastic 3D movie about the Monarch butterflies and their migration from eastern Canada and the US all the way down to Mexico. Canadian zoologist and...

Gravity Sucks! We didn’t roll out of our hotel till the crack of noon and encountered more bumper to bumper traffic pretty much right outside our hotel door. We eventually found ourselves in a very ritzy part of town after missing a turn the GPS wanted us to take. Beautiful new homes...

Re: Morelia Plaza de Armas also goes by the name Plaza de los Mártires (or Plaza of the Martyrs), named in honour of those executed here during the Mexican war of independence. We found ourselves walking around Morelia in this weird state of ambivalence, still very much feeling the...

Morelia We had a very short 174km’s to Morelia and our 8th state (Michoacán), and even with our morning detour to Guanajuato, we made it there with plenty of daylight left. We managed to hit another huge traffic jam navigating our way downtown to the first hotel on our list. Nice place but...

Re: Culture Shock Ok apparently I missed a photo above. If anyone found a fish in the (mis-captioned) photo above lemme know.

Culture Shock Somewhere over the last few days we've began feeling pretty homesick, almost 7 months on the road and it hits us now? With Christmas fast approaching it’s only going to get harder I think. There’s no doubt that there are good days and bad ones but we’ve noticed we’re having more...

Drivers Ed...Mexican Style While loading up the bike in front of the hotel the next morning, we were approached by someone from a Mexican magazine, Enlace, and ended up doing an impromptu interview. We fielded questions about Durango and whether we felt safe, about the missing students and also...

Durango, Durango The next morning we found a little cafe a few doors down from the hotel. Like a lot of places in Mexico, it didn't really look like much from the outside, but they had this cute little outdoor patio at the back. Perfect spot for morning coffee and brekky. We’ve actually...

Durango, Durango “Where do you want to go next?” “I don’t know, where do you want to go?” This is a conversation we’ve had many times during our trip. Without a specific plan or agenda for Mexico, it was one we’d have again many times. Sometimes looking at a map will help us make this terribly...

Mexico...Take 2 Our second attempt at Mexico went a little better, or at least we lasted longer. We checked out of the hotel in Tucson and hit the Cracker Barrel for some of that hashbrown casserole one last time before heading south. On the way we rolled over 40,000 on the odometer. Crossing...

¡Hola Mexico! You learn a great deal about yourself when you step outside of your own comfort zone. Of the two of us, I would have to say that Lori has pushed that comfort bubble much more than I have so far. Mexico however seems to have levelled that playing field. We have both kissed whatever...