After leaving the village I headed east again on Mex 175. That road is great both from the west into Oaxaca and to the east, heading for Tuxtapec. I planned my fuel situation a bit better this time.
From Oaxaca you head up into the the mountains again, road surface is ok for a while but then it starts getting pretty patchy. There’s a point where you reach the crest of the range, at about 7200 ft, and look down to the other side. This is what I saw.
From this it was pretty obvious I’d be inside the cloud layer pretty soon, so tried to have a bit of fun on the road going down…
This video demonstrates one more reason why we love adventure bikes, and the Tenere in particular… The road is pretty badly broken up in a lot of places, but el Caballo Azul just soaks it all up and lets me maintain a nice pace through it all. This road would not be much fun on a sport bike or even a sport tourer…
After a great ride through the mountains and fog, it was back to the flatlands for a while. Decending from 8000ft to around 300ft in a fairly short space of time, you really feel the heat and humidity as you approach the bottom. I was back in sugarcane country, in fact passed through Tuxtapec where I stayed a night three weeks before. I’d managed to close a big loop that went as far south as Palenque, touched both coasts and returned to Tuxtapec via Oxaca. Really great ride, especially crossing the mountains, twice.
