Day 14

Day 14 11/9/2021
Odometer- 25,758 – 26,000—– 242 Miles Today (3300 Miles Total)
Cascadas De Micos in Platanito – Santiago de Queretaro

NOTE: I’m loving the replies I’m getting back. Thank you! Please please please though make sure when you reply you don’t include all my images i sent in the email because it’s killing my data!

My GPS tracks for the trip. Btw. When you open the link it starts out in Nashville Tn where the company is based out of and then zooms out to the whole world. Ignore my tracks in Europe from the last trip. It’s a bit of a complicated system where I had to use two different software companies to make that map on Spotwalla. Enjoy!

https://new.spotwalla.com/trip/8354-102e3c09-202f/view

As lovely as last night’s camping spot was, the first night is always pretty rough in that tent. It was pretty hot last night but cooled off around 5am. I woke up at 1:30am and didn’t sleep much after that. A few bugs got into the tent as well and were definitely crawling all over me through the night. Ugh!

I got out of the tent at sunrise. Tried to take some shots of the sunrise but there were too many trees around. Went for a swim in the water….or should we call it a bath? Packed up the bike and went into town about 30 minutes away. My friend Gareth that I met in Montenegro two years ago is in Mexico too riding south. I have some motorcycle gear I ordered for him to bring down and not sure if i’ll catch him before he leaves to go back home for Christmas so i stopped at DHL to mail his stuff!

I was going to go to a wild art display in the jungle that Gareth found but it was closed. So I just hit the next pin I had on my maps and it was to a small town in the mountains. 4 Hours to ride 120 miles….that sounds like a fun ride to me. About 30 minutes into my ride or so I saw two adventure bikes like mine in a gas station and something made me think they’re from the US. I pulled in and I couldn’t believe it. New York license plates. Two guys from the bronx! We chatted for a few minutes, exchanged information and went on riding.

During the ride the amount of smells I kept smelling that reminded me of my grandparents’ lives in Serbia was wild. Burning wood and with what they burn I guess makes it identical to smells i had as a kid when i was visiting my grandparents.

At one point I was riding and for miles there were just wild trees with oranges and limes growing on the side of the road. most of the towns had all kinds of things for sale, one of them even had 25′ tall palm trees for sale! Stopped for some tacos in a little town. I eventually made it to a town called Bernal which has a huge rock formation right in its backyard. Took some pictures and then rode over to a city called Santiago de Queretaro which I’m staying at for the night. Pretty normal day!

BTW a lot of people mentioned to me that i shouldn’t let their tap water get into my mouth or i’ll get sick from bacteria. Being Marko you know how that would end up. I drank a bit of tap water every single night I’ve gotten to Mexico and nothing yet. Kinda surprised I haven’t gotten sick yet.