Cycling:
From Jamay to La Barca was straight and flat road, unfortunately we had strong head wind. From La Barca we took old road to Zamora, quite hilly, no shoulder and not in the best condition, but not too much traffic and the hills were not very steep. Mostly agricultural countryside, for a while we went through valley with a small river. We are almost in 1600 m above the sea level.
Learning:
- that when I am first, Baška is always far behind me, no matter how fast or slow I am cycling
- that crushed pumice can be used in cement, instead of sand
- that landscape in this height looks almost like in Slovakia
- that there are idiots on the roads everywhere
- that to rely on students during the time of final exams is not the best idea
- that just to know location coordinates is not enough
Living:
~ cleaning the tent after night "shower"
~ we had to pay for water in La Barca - it's for the second time on the mainland of Mexico
~ many times we'd heard that it wasn'tgood to stick on the side of narrow roads, because then drivers are trying to pass us even with cars passing in opposite lane, and there isn't much space, which is very dangerous for us. It is better to take the whole lane instead, so the cars have to slow down and wait until there is enough space on the road to pass us. Anyway, usually we ride as close to the side of a road as possible. So Piatok tried to take the whole lane this time. It worked very well until one car almost hit him; after that we decided it was better to stick on the side of the road :-). Later that day some crazy driver in opposite direction was passing the truck and didn't bother to think about us - he missed us only about centimeters. Well, another day on the road...
~ our warmshowers host in Zamora didn't send us directions to her house; when we came to Zamora, even though we had her location on GPS, we couldn't find her, GPS just lead us into a part of the town with many houses, all looking absolutely the same, and there were nor door bells, either name tags. So we rode out of Zamora and camped in a strawberry field :-)
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