Day 35 11/30/2021
Odometer 27,835 – 27,845——10 Miles (5145 Miles Total)
San Cristobal De Las Casas
Theres a festival about to happen here in San Cristobal.
Ask me how I know.
Well from 8pm – 8am there’s fireworks going off. Literally. I don’t know why these people stay up all night long to shoot off the same boring fireworks that don’t even explode at the top. Well they do but no show just noise. We barely got any sleep with these explosions going off every single minute.
We got up around 8 or so and decided to burn off some of that food we ate the last week. When we walked outside I looked at my bike and something looked different in a tenth of a second. I walked up to my bike and everything was missing that I usually leave on my bike overnight.
Toolbag, tools, spare parts like wheel bearings, yeti bottle, solar lanterns for camping, camping stove, cooking pan, both front and rear extra motorcycles tubes in a expensive waterproof bag, fuel stabilizers, and a god damn microfiber towel. All in all about $1200 of stuff no one will be able to use for the most part. I bet they walked down the block, went through it all and threw it in a trash can.
I was fuming most of the morning. We made it out to Crossfit and that got rid of some of my bad energy from the morning. I was in a rush all day ordering parts to get shipped to a friends place in NY so whoever is coming down here next can bring them to me. I went to Autozone in town and bought some tools. Bare minimum to get my bike fixed if I get a flat. My biggest issue is they took my bead breaker for my tires. If I get a flat I have to pop the tire off of the rim since its sort of locked in there and then I can remove it to change the tube. They don’t sell things like that here so ill have to use the old school method of using my kickstand to pop the bead which I’m sure will be a huge pain in the ass. Im praying someone comes down here asap and can bring them. We got some breakfast, took Lilly to a medical center because she got hit by a car.
Joking, she took a covid test so she can fly home in the morning. I found an internet shop and I paid to get some decent wifi. I got to upload pictures to the blog that I haven’t been able to upload in a week because of the internet and how slow its been everywhere. I have a feeling its only going to get worse the more south I go.
We went out for some Peruvian food. I think its safe to stay its my favorite food ever. Such clean tasty protein and its been so cheap. After dinner walked around and did some more Christmas shopping for friends at home at the city center. I bought a Baja Sweater its called. Just a fancy little knitted sweater they sell all over Mexico. I totally look like a local now.
Tomorrow I have a 16 hour ride to Tulum. I decided as of this morning I’m going to take the dangerous road. Route 199 hoping someone would mess with me because I have a lot of anger to get rid of after this morning events. But after cooling off a bit more I think I’m going to play it smart for once and take the long “safer” road to Tulum. I hope I like this part of Mexico. All I hear is drugs, cartel and expensive hotels. Im gonna get up at 5:30 and hit the road. Ill probably camp ten hours into the ride in the middle of Yucatan Mexico from looking at the map. Well see what happens. Time for bed as I have a long long long day of blasting over speed bumps all day tomorrow. Sorry suspension and everything else attached to my bike.
I will try to upload pictures either tomorrow but if were being realistic here till be in three weeks with the internet situation.
