From San Juan Cosalá to Chapala, following the lake shore. Easy ride, just some small hills, the biggest problem was traffic.
Learning:
- that when I think that Baška thinks something which she doesn't think, and she thinks that I think something which I don't think, then we both get hungry
- that the best and the cheapest food is in small streets in small family owned restaurants
- that water in laguna Chapala, the biggest lake in Mexico, is disappearing because Guadalajara is sucking it up, and nowadays the water is so polluted that you really don't want to eat any fish from it
Living:
~ we were lazy today, our host Valentino in Chapala will be home at 7 pm so we had a lot of time
~ riding to Chapala we realised how lucky we actually were to find that nice camping spot, the rest of the lake shore seemed to be built up
~ I was waiting for Baška to decide where to go eat (we wanted to try the famous "tortas ahogadas") but she awaited the same from me, and we came to Chapala quite hungry
~ we did the mistake of looking for food on the main street. We found it and torta ahogada was good (but we had expected a little bit more, this one was just bun with meat, onion and salsa and it cost about 30 pesos); if we looked on the small back streets, we could find nice small restaurants with better options and prices (as we found out later with Valentino)
~ the celebration of Saint Mary of Guadalupe was today, the parade was just a small one, but pretty noisy
~ until we met with Valentino's brother who took us to Valentino's house (Valentino got stuck in traffic from Guadalajara), we were on the malecon and wondering why the water level in the lake is so low. Later Valentino told us the reason - Guadalajara used too much water from it. Who knows how long this third biggest lake in Latin America will be the third biggest...
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