la paz
we're in la paz. tomorrow we're taking an 18 hour ferry to mazatlan on mainland mexico. hopefully we'll be able to meet up with the rest of the guys, although i got an email from dale and he said they were waylaid because of the hurricane. if this image loads, it's a picture of the hotel we're staying in. it's pretty cool. everything is cement, even the beds. peter, erik and that british guy andrew and i are all staying here for $30. not too bad. la paz is cool. it's the first major city we've been in for a while, and tonight we went to a chinese restaurant, which was a nice change from beans and tortillas.
i'm really tired of having diarhea. it's exhausting to be sick on top of the heat and biking. i'm changing the name of the blog to diarhea diaries instead of jessie bikes. i might go to the doctor when we get to mazatlan.
it's really good the have peter back. here's what he looked like after biking 110 miles.
it's funny because really, this has been the nicest biking of the whole trip. the best road, least traffic, and most curtious drivers. but the heat and sickness killed me. people say that around december baja is like "paradise". but it's not right now. the scenery really is beautiful though. i wonder how long it will be this hot. people say that october is the start of the rainy season. maybe soon it will be totally hot, raining, and i'll still have diarhea.
We're still not totally sure whether we'll stay on the coast or go inland. inland we'll be doing a ton of climbing, there will be a lot of traffic, and we'll have to worry about stuff getting stolen (we haven't had to worry about this at all on baja), but we'll get to see a lot of cool mexican cities and it will be cooler with less mosquitos. on the coast it will be flat, hot and more resort towns. flat sounds nice though. also biking in big cities is stressfull. ok, hope everyone is good, and thanks again for the nice comments. i really miss everyone so much. all the guys are really nice, but sometimes i miss having friends who are girls, or maybe friends who are guys who aren't wearing spandex. love,
jessie
posted by jessiebikes at 8:44 PM
2 Comments:
It still amazes me how much ground you're covering. Peter looks like a clean-shaven war refugee! does he not grow facial hair? La Paz sounds like a solid place, concrete beds and all. I wonder what mexican chinese food tastes like. I could go for a mongolean beef taco... I wish I could hang out and have a beer, but until then, this bud's for you!
The hotel looks beautiful, I'm sorry about your intestinal difficulties...there was this pill for that problem that one of Al's travel photography teachers recommended to him if he wanted to go into travel photography (you can't be on an all day shoot on location and have to shit every five minutes). He called it "the plug" but I don't remember the actual name. I'll find out, maybe you can find it...miss you...
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