In Tequila – and tonight, tequila will be in me! I didn’t have long enough in Tequila – just one night. First stop was the Jose Cuervo tasting rooms. I thought I should have a finer appreciation of the tequila genre, and sipping a few different styles seemed like a good way to do it.…
Mexico
Durango and the Devil’s Backbone
Made it to Durango the next day where I met up with 2 Aussies, Ken and Carol, who I’d first met in Creel. They’d found a great old hotel right in the center of town, off a pedestrian mall next to the main plaza. The plaza is all lit up with christmas lights and with…
Mazatlan has High Curbs
Kicked butt on the Batopilas road, tamed the Devil’s Backbone… crashed in front of a Mazatlan hotel! What a dick 😉 My right foot just did a ‘swoosh’ through empty air where I thought there should be pavement. I thinking “I wonder if this hotel will be OK?”, put my foot down without noticing that the gutter is really deep…
Heading for Durango
I headed east from Guachochi, hoping to make Durango the next day. I had decided to take 24 south, just before Parral, for two reasons – it looked shorter but also twistier than the other option, Mex 45 from Parral. There’s a Pemex gas station and an OXXO store at that intersection. In front of…
Back from Batopilas
The trip back up was a bit different to coming down – what were downhill sections before were now steep climbs. Mostly they were ok, but a few were steep enough and rough enough that you have to pick your route at the bottom, cos it’s going to be difficult to change course on the…
The Long Way Down (to Batopilas)
Here’s the video of the trip down into Copper Canyon. It’s about a 160 mile round trip from Guachochi, and fairly challenging on a big bike, but geeze was it fun! It’s long, but that’s deliberate so that anyone considering the trip can see the varied terrain on the way down.
Into the Copper Canyon
Today is B-day – Batopilas day. Seems like is it kind of a challenging road, rough dirt winding down the side of the canyon to Batopilis at the bottom. I’m trying to tip the odds in my favor by leaving most of the gear in the hotel at Guanchochi. Cheating I know, but not in…
Into Mexico (Again)
Entering Mexico for the second time in a week, this time through Nogales, south of Tucson. My entry to Baja the week before was planned that way because, although I wasn’t “scared” of Mexico, I thought it might be better to avoid the northern border region. That’s where a lot of the trouble is, no sense…
Mexico and Baja Dirt
So up to now it’s been a very very nice trip. But it’s not really an “adventure” until the unexpected happens and you have to figure out how to deal with it. I’m now in Mexico, so I’m expecting the unexpected! First up – I was told by Al Jesse that the east coast of…