Day 31 11/26/2021
Odometer 27,230 -27,395 —— 165 Miles (4,695 Miles Total)
Oaxaca, Mexico – Puerto Escondido
We packed up all the things in the morning and loaded up the bike. Damn was this bike heavy. Not very happy about the weight. It was gonna be a rough ride with all the speed bumps! We were on the road before 8am. GPS said we had a 6:45 ride ad I was praying Lilly’s butt could handle a ride that long since my ass 100%b goes numb after about 4 hours. Ive been looking forward to this ride for a very long time. It’s just pure twisty roads through mountains all the way to the beach from Oaxaca which is at 7,000′ elevation. We stopped for breakfast about 2 hour into the ride and get an incredible home cooked breakfast from a family selling food on the side of the road. It was so god I even ordered my meal a second time which filled me up real nice.
It started to get warm and we took the glove off. I was so excited to get to the heat and not be cold anymore. About two hours later the roads turned to complete shit. The side of the paved roads were gone from land slides and washouts from heavy rain. There were a few turns where the road just suddenly disappeared off the side and we were inches from nearly exploding if my tire clipped it. As the roads got even twister which I just couldn’t believe, the air started to smell different, the heat was getting more intense and the trees were very very green with so much foliage everywhere. It felt like I was in Puerto Rico with the way the scenery looked especially with tropical plants everywhere, big big leaves on these trees, palm trees and clean rivers everywhere. As we passed a beautiful waterfall I turned around to Lilly and said want to go for a swim. I already knew the answer. We turned around, pulled over, stripped down to our underwear and jumped in the water with the other locals cooling off too. We sat there for about 30 minutes just staring at this waterfall knowing I would be really sad to leave it. I wish I could just live there. We put our riding gear back on and off we went. We rode about another hour until we pulled into PE. We checked into the hotel packed a few beach towels and immediately shot down to Skydive Puerto Escondido to try to work something out with the place to take Lilly on a jump. A bunch of skeptical questions from the other instructors and a lot of funny looks later we were filling out paperwork to jump. The guys didn’t quite believe anything about me. I showed up in sandals, short shorts, half a shirt on, my hairs a mess, no ID and I’m telling them I have 13,500 jumps and I want to take my friend on a Tandem. I showed them a video of me doing a jump with one of their friends last week at Skydive Cuautla and they were convinced, this guy might know what he’s doing! hah
Next thing you know were taking a shuttle with everyone else to the airport down the block where they take off from. They’re blasting some Spanish music dancing in the shuttle, the guys are twerking, everyones having a great time and this is exactly why I love this stuff! We get to the airport, Lilly isn’t sure if she should trust me, I’m telling her all the dad jokes scaring her. A few minuter later her feet are dangling off the side of the plane 13,500′ over the beach in Mexico. I throw a few backflips, get stable and get to finally enjoy this view. I opened the parachute and we were good. My god was it lovely. We flew up to the other Tandem Instructor under the parachute said hello to them and waved. We get to land on the beach here which they do on a daily basis. I haven’t done that in years.
We landed next to everyone else, walked a half a block back to the office dropped our gear off, said our goodbyes and ran right back down to the beach where we jumped in for a long long swim. We got some ceviche on the beach with too much Mexican Coca Cola, walked back out to the beach for another swim watching the sunset and then shot back to our hotel room.
I got a bit sick the last few days. My stomach was hurting after every meal and I think it was because of too much hot and spicy things I put on all of my food. We will see what happens!
