Day 15

Day 15 11/10/2021
Odometer- 26,000 – 26,050—– 50 Miles Today (3350 Miles Total)
Santiago de Queretaro – San Miguel De Allende

My GPS tracks for the trip. When you open the link it starts out in Nashville Tn where the company is based out of and then zooms out to show you my tracks. Give it a second to load up!

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

So last night I took an edible to help me sleep and while waiting for it to kick in I was writing out the email. It kicked in a bit hard and at one point I almost fell off my bed while I was just sitting on it. I shut the screen about 60 seconds later and went to bed. Hope their email was like the rest of them and not too weird! :insert weird face here:

I stayed at a gorgeous Hostel last night my friend Gareth recommended me to. I’m realizing this trip is going to be much different than my last one with the prices of hostels and how easy they are to find. I did alotttttttt of camping on my last trip mostly because where I went there were no hostels or airbnbs and if there were I didn’t want to spend that much on them. But this is a nice change of pace staying in hostels for sure. I get to meet people and get the lowdown on good places to eat and things to see from the person that works at the front desk. I’ve stayed in 2 or 3 hostels now on this trip in Mexico and they’re usually about $8-11 which is wild for how nice they are and they come with breakfast too sometimes.

This morning was the first morning I actually hung out where I woke up. I got up at 6:30am and did some research on what other things I should go find in Mexico. I crushed through the pins I saved on my google maps before the trip so it was time to fill up my saved pins on Google maps again. My plan was to be in Mexico for about 15 days maybe. Grandpa Yak did it in ten days, he said. Way too fast old man! I’m thinking I’m gonna have to do maybe 25 days here or so but we will see as I’ve only spent 5 nights here and I made it pretty far south already. When I got to San Miguel De Allende and checked into my hostel I booked another night straight away. This is the first city I have been to in Mexico where I would feel safe at night time walking around which is nice to see. The city here is so beautiful and much cleaner. All the streets are cobblestone with so many colors on the houses and buildings. There’s many churches here as you’ll see in the pictures. So after putting a lot of miles on the bike the last 5 days it’s time to slow down and enjoy this city and the next few i’ll be in. I sure saw a lot of beauty in the mountains and side roads getting here that’s for sure. The photography will change quite a bit for the next few days as I’ll just be in the city taking shots there so I hope I can get some nice shots here! Still trying to figure out this whole photography thing. I paid for an editing app so from now on I’ll be editing photos before they go out in the emails but it sure makes a huge difference. Thanks for the motivation Demi! And great, more work for me to do!

I got some recommendations on places to eat from my buddy Mike Conti and Christina. They both pretty much gave me the same places to check out so I’m sure the rest will be good. Thanks guys! I stopped in a few bakery’s to get some homemade snacks and treats and I think I should pretty much wave goodbye to the 2-1/2 abs I have on my stomach. Bye guys, nice knowing you. 🙁

I took a little nap today after eating some sweets, and shot over to a Crossfit gym to get my workout on. Knee is acting up a bit after that hike in Monterrey. Shot back to the hostel after the gym, showered up and went out to experience my first solid nightlife in Mexico! My friend Mike recommended some street tacos which he claimed are the best in this city and god damn he was right. My favorite part was I paid $5 for 6 tacos with a coke, I even went back for two more on the way home! Got some delicious drinks at a restaurant near the center too. Walked around and took some shots of the city at night time and listened to a Mariachi band play for people in the streets for about an hour! I stumbled home after all of that like a drunken amateur and here we are!

This is definitely my most favorite night out of the trip so far. Beautiful city, people, food, atmosphere, drinks, music. It’s got everything! On my walk home I said to myself, Screw Argentina. I’m not going to be in a rush to hit Argentina by May. I’m pretty sure I’m going to slow it down quite a bit and wherever I end up when it’s time to come back the trip will end there, i’ll throw my bike in storage and go back in October again to finish it off! I feel like tonight was also the turnaround point in this trip where my anxiety is completely gone because of how much fun I’ve had and I hope I will continue having. This city is magical!