Chapter V - Since this chapter of my life with Skippy and the dogs ended, a new one opened. Follow my latest adventures and travels here: https://www.youtube.com/@wolfiunterwegs
Then we arrived in San Juan Cosala - Thermal bath town without the smell of rotten eggs!
Hot water everywhere.
Plenty of Americans and Canadians here. Mostly in high-security premises.
Mexican style - combined restaurant, shop and living area.
Stylish house number signs.
Beautiful colored flowers. Eye therapy!
Drinking water delivery. The canisters are reused or recycled - already much better compared to West-Africa.
Mexican style window with integrated barrier.
San Juan main street.
San Juan also offered a promenade with playgrounds and picnic areas.
Plenty of bird life.
Looked like hay in the wires.
Houses with plenty of flowers.
Interesting mix of religious painting and bread/bakery add.
Tower house.
Plenty of stray dogs in the village.
Looks like he found something delicious.
Our track (370km)
The pictures and story from the pilgrims is in the previous post. Check it out here.
Life was ok until I noticed this: Some crucial parts from my Telelever ball joint (Kugelgelenk) incl. the nut was missing. Shit hit again the fan. Another major effort in getting the spare parts and finding the tools to do the repair. It feels right now like a series of devastating major repairs.
Finally I found Negra Modelo! It was ok, I think I lost my taste for beer.
And my GoPro grab-bag spare parts came.
Wild waves attacking the tree.
Fresh donuts delivery on the beach (no need to move one's fat ass to get more fat).
We left Los Ayala and it was supposed to be an easy 230km ride for this day which would brings us some 30km beyond Mascota. What I did not knew was that right after Mascota, we would encounter thousands of pilgrims, more like tens of thousands. People everywhere! Buses everywhere! It was unbelievable. Instead of my GoPro taking cool clips it only took a single picture which did not show anything - disappointing. So here are some pics from the internet of people walking the "Ruta del Peregrino". As a consequence there was no free hotel. In fact the hotels were so full that there were extra mattresses everywhere to allow people to sleep on the floor.
From Spanish Wikipedia translated into English with Google translator:
"La Ruta del Peregrino is a
path with more than 200 years of tradition, one the covers some
communes of Jalisco, Mexico. The most popular route is the pioneer in
Ameca, although there are other paths to the same end; mountains of
the Sierra Madre Occidental are crossed and ends in the town of Talpa
de Allende, specifically in the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Its length is 117 kilometers and is traversed by about 3 million
people per year in March and particularly in Week Santa."
Pilgrims (source unknown).
Pilgrims (source unknown).
One-night-stand in Ameca: secure parking, spacious room, clean, Wifi and cheap (about 15EUR/night).
Went shopping. Bike smelled like petrol and I stopped to check it out. Then I saw this:
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??????? For all those who cannot see the issue: the ball joint sheared off at the leading link. Kugelgelenk am Längslenker abgerissen.
And then Skippy is doing her thing and nobody there to give me some support :( :(
