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Hi Paul your having good weather looking at your pictures. The road works you wouldn't want to ride into at night.Is that the the way the police collect the parking fines. RIDE safe:sbike:Barry.:byesmiley:

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Originally Posted by Mort (Post 179672)

every little town has armed police or army for protection from the cartels

Out of Galena in the morning, the road was good but with the occasional pothole big enough to swallow your front wheel�but somehow they all seemed to be in the shadows of the trees lining the road, funny how that happens

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Up and over an 8000 foot pass and down to Villa de Guadalupe and then on to Charcas for lunch.

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doing some people watching

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drinking some very large beers (2 liters) can affect your vision slightly

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Doesn�t matter what country you are from as a kid chasing pigeons is universal worldwide�just never seems to get one, and wouldn�t know what to do with it if you did!!!

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Bike of choice for this town is a CG 125 whether riding alone or with the whole family

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�stayed in the Le Terminal Hotel for 260 pesos with secure bike parking in the courtyard

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to finish the day we asked for a recommendation for a restaurant from Reynaldo and Antonina from Sol y Luna - they suggested Taco Don Felix, they told us he used to have a taco stand with table covered in white linen, but now he was in a building outside of town but it was worth going...the drive there about 30 pesos in cab takes you through 'the ghetto' kind of so don't be surprised...but what i was surprised at was one of the absolute best pepper steaks i have ever had (and i have had many around the world) and very reasonably priced if i might add

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the plan for the day - Zacatlan....FAIL...but in a really good way!!!

out of san miguel in the morning

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another one for the reasons not to ride in the dark south of the border...wide load here is a lot wider than in the north

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here's another

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and another

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riding parallel to the mountains in the high desert

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route planned to find this back road to Zacatlan, thru the mountains...this is what it looked like on a map, makes the tail of the dragon look like a straight road, and this is all dirt

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this the real view, if you are even the slightest bit bothered about heights this road is not for you, some corners had atleast 2-3000 foot shear drops

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...and this is the view from the top of Barranca de Tolantongo and down to la Gloria Tolantongo

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