From La Laguna on the bottom of the volcano to Santa Maria del Oro it was 7 km uphill. From Santa Maria del Oro to hwy 15D it was another uphill ride (with one nice downhill) and the rest of the day was almost all the time uphill too.
Learning:
- that fear from 7 km steep uphill ride is worse than to actually climb up that hill (actually it was quite easy)
- that our water filter (Katydin) works very well even after all those kilometres (about 12 500 km so far)
- that you are never alone
- that coral snakes live here
- that sugar cane is the best candy
Living:
~ woke up early just to start late (as often happens to us)
~ found dead coral snake on the road, some locals passing by in a car stopped and said in terrified voice: "coralillo" (they thought it was still alive)
~ from Huichol Indians we bought massage oil made from peyote & cannabis, maybe it will help to our sore legs muscles :-)
~ after we left Santa Maria del Oro (where we had lunch break) and got on hwy, we just rode uphill till the evening ~ met two other cyclists (from Spain and Singapore), they met at Gabino's place in San Quintín in Baja California and since that they travel together - destination South America, same as ours :-). It was funny that they had already known about us from Gabino - people on warmshowers are like one family...
~ nice evening ride with even a few downhill moments
~ our campsite was under a small volcano and beautiful crater, in the field of sugar cane, we had sweet dreams :-)
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