From Yago back to hwy 15D and then to Tepic. Although the signs on the road showed something more than 40 km to Tepic, by the end of the day we did more than 60 km. Tepic is quite long town. Another challenge was the elevation from 30 meters above the sea level to more than 900, so we were biking uphill almost whole day (with two nice downhill rides).
Learning:
- don't forget to count with elevation because then even 40 km can be pretty far, especially if you want to climb into the volcano :-)
- that even to ride downhill can be actually the ride uphill
- that sunny day can be worse than rainy day
- that even right next to the beautiful waterfall can be dumping site for gravel and building materials
- that we can survive the night ride on the main roads in the crazy Tepic traffic
Living:
~ we took it pretty easy in the morning, somehow we forgot to count how many steep hills are between us and Tepic
~ near by Yago another tarantula crossed our way, this time the big one
~ the first hills were easy, but after we realised that even hills which look like they are heading down, are going up; and after we climbed to the top of the hills and find out that there is still more uphill to go, it started to be a little harder. The sun and temperatures about 30°C and smoke from semi-trucks and cars (engines of some of them probably remembered Spanish king), didn't help either
~ there are two old men sitting in the shade under the trees on the edge of the road. One looks like Carl Marx and the second one like Gandhí :-).
~ we arrived to Tepic after the sun set, tired, covered in dust, sweat and salt and just realised that to our warmshowers host Jose we had about 15 km more to go ~ night ride through Tepic traffic was dangerous but exotic too: scents of different kinds of food from small restaurants and stands was mixing with emissions from cars and smell of dark corners, people were laughing, yelling, banda music was roaring from speakers and sometimes from local bands, automobiles were honking, small cars were trying to get in front of the big ones, buses were trying to get in front of everybody just to stop immediately, motorcycles weaved between all that chaos, sometimes the traffic lights didn't work; and then there were us, trying to avoid holes, missing bars on sewage screens and cars and checking the map often to make sure we didn't get lost. But finally we made it, maybe a little bit deaf and almost poisoned from exhaust fumes but more less ok. Our host Jose is very nice young guy, he took us for taco dinner (after we took shower -one of the best moments of this day :-)).
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