Day 37

Day 37  12/2/2021

Odometer   28,535  – 28,555 ——20  Miles  (5855 Miles Total)

Tulum, Mexico

I went to bed last night with a downpour outside and it put me right to sleep. It was lovely! I made some friends from Canada and germany in my room was I was going to sleep, I have a feeling ill be hanging out with these gypsies the next few nights since they seem like a ton of fun. I woke up at about 6:30-7 and laid in bed for a while.  It was steaming hot this morning since the guy sleeping next to the AC decided he was too cold so we all suffered.

I got up, showered, and reorganized most of my bike since it was a disaster with last night’s events with the flat tire and getting here so late in the rain. I went out and exchanged some money, bought myself a nice linen button up shirt so I can go out and look like a decent human being at the cost of an arm and a leg. I dropped off some laundry, searched for the right motorcycle oil for my bike since it needs an oil change with no luck. I decided I’m not going to fix the patched tube here. I’m just going to wait till I get another flat. Maybe it’ll hold up for another 10,000 miles. I also don’t have tools here to pop the bead so I’m not going to get frustrated with that after how long yesterday was. If I get a flat, hopefully the bead will break like it did yesterday and it’ll save some work or my tools will be here before then.

The hostel I’m at is so much fun. We had breakfast this morning while I was running errands and they do some sort of activity every day. Today was a group beach day which is exactly what I was looking for. They all walked over to the bus stop to take the bus to the beach 15 minutes away. One of the girls I met last night wanted a ride on the bike so I gave her my helmet and gave her a ride to the beach. I was going to give her friend a ride back from the beach since they both wanted a ride. On the way there we got pulled over by a cop which was so sweet. He said it was illegal to ride without a helmet in Mexico which blew my mind because literally 80% of the people riding here don’t wear a helmet. I told him i’ll pay the fine if he lets us finish the 1 mile ride at 20mph on the beach so he went over and talked to his boss and decided he would let us borrow his helmet and he would follow us down to the spot we were meeting everyone at and then go back with the helmet. That was very sweet of him.

We all got to the beach and just chilled out. It was pretty cloudy most of the day but we welcomed the clouds after the sun popped out and showed us what kind of heat it can produce down here. We played volleyball for a while just bouncing the ball around to each other. We threw a frisbee for maybe an hour and then three of us guys challenged the two girls to a real volleyball match since that’s what they did. They crushed us. We swam some more after to get the sand off and went back to the hostel.

We got back to the hostel showered up and went out for some tacos before the hostel hosted a huge dinner party for everyone at the hostel. We all hung out, maybe 30 people or so. It was a blast. They made a nice BBQ with skewers, it rained a bit so we all ran inside and ate dinner there. There were so many people here from all over the world it was nice to meet them all. A few of us were still hungry so we went out for more tacos down the block after dinner and then a few of us made it to a bar. These kids kept me up till 1:30am. They’re killing me! haha

Got home pretty late and passed right out.

Hostel pre dinner hang out