Category: Mexico
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19. TM Sur: Oaxaca, Veracruz + Chiapas
Another update here from Mexico after getting back on the road following a long Christmas break, full of lots of major landscape, linguistic and cultural change and even bumping into more cyclists on the road. From Puerto Escondido I headed back on the bus to Oaxaca in the new year, but not before I had…
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18. CDMX to Oaxaca – time for a holiday
This update started in a car (sacrilege, I know!). Dave once again gave me a huge hand in driving me south away from CDMX to pick up the Trans-Mexico as it heads towards Oaxaca, avoiding riding city traffic and dropping from 2400m to 800m along the way. We saw a small eruption out of Popocatépetl…
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17. Trans-Mexico 2
This little update comes to you from a hill in the middle of rural Morelos state but I’ll rewind to the beautiful city of Guanajuato, a world heritage city no less, where I spent a few days off the bike exploring the narrowing streets, markets and steep hills and getting utterly lost in the city’s…
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16. Trans-Mexico
It feels like a long time since I last updated everyone, so here we go – my second post from Mexico and excitingly my first since joining the Trans-Mexico route which prioritises quiet roads and dirt tracks and I’m hoping to follow from Durango all the way through to Guatemala. First goal out of Durango…
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15. Mexico – Chihuahua & Durango
So my time in Mexico started at one of the more infamous borders of the world. I definitely felt a lot of nerves approaching the border at Palomas, with its tall fences and guards and guns and that feeling of having done something wrong. The crossing itself was very easy – too easy in fact.…