From San Isidro to hwy 80 heading to Colima. The road is pretty much down hill untill village Buenavista where is one hill. Then continuing on hwy 15 till the town Jocotepec where we turn left to laguna Chapala heading to the town with the same name. There were just small hills.
Learning:
- that the best and easiest cycling is early in the morning
- that you cannot buy lighter on the gas station
- that even I can speak some Spanish
- that laguna Chapala is surrounded by residences for retired Americans and Canadians
Living:
~ started very early because we didn't want to pay for another day in aqua park, but it was cool because then we rode the first 30 km without even noticing that we were cycling and should be tired
~ cooking breakfast at the corner of a street - we are attraction for the locals again
~ we stopped on a gas station to use their toilets and I found out two things, they don't sell lighters and I can quite speak Spanish too :-)
~ to get to laguna Chapala we had to bike up only one steep hill, otherwise we were biking mostly downhills
~ on the way to Jocotepec it looked like local volcano was smoking but it was just one cloud, the closest active volcano is about 200 km south-west, near Colima city
~ from San Juan Cosalá we felt like back in USA, so many residences and houses for rich people and almost no access to the water
~ but finally we were lucky and found nice place hidden from sights and right next to the lake, for the rest of the day we were accompanied only by pelicans (which are white with pink beaks and yellow legs), herons (also white and tiny with black beaks and legs), cormorants, gulls, ibises and sterns
~ in the evening we heard fireworks and music from the town across the lake, it's time to celebrate Saint Mary Guadalupe. But why were they cracking fireworks till the midnight and then since six o'clock in the morning?
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