Tuesday, February 2, 2010

San Cristóbal, Eloxochitlan, and Molango

The bike is fixed!!!! And I´m on the road again!!!  Yesterday I left San Cristóbal and the amazing family that fed me and helped me out for a few days, and took off to the mountains for Eloxochitlan.  It was raining and the road across the valley was totally mud mud muddy and it took 2 hours just to slog through it.  I finally hit the carretera and went rose up into the clouds.  3 or 4 hours of huge mountains and cold rain later I arrived cold, wet, and hungry to the town in the clouds.  I asked around for a restaurant and was directed to a house that was a quai restaurant.  They fed me caldo con carnitas y unas torillias bien calientes, un cafe, y frijol.  Oh gosh was it good.  It was getting late, around 3, which doesn´t sound all that late but when you´re looking for a place to sleep it´s good to get there before dark.  They directed me to a place where rooms were for rent, but there were none available.  I explained that I only needed a tiny space for my tent, and they put me up in a back room that was full of power tools, but it had a bed.  I slept like a baby.  In the morning I got my things together and headed out, the room ended up being free.  Breakfast at the restaurant house, an exchange of info, and some delicious gorditas later and I was on the road again to Molango. It took 3 hours slowly winding down rocky dirt roads in the mountain to get here, but here I am.  Again, apologies for the random and kind of crappy story telling, I´m in medio camino and I want to make it to Lalotla tonight.  It´s foggy, so we´ll see.  And, here are the photos.

























2 comments:

Javier said...

QUE TAL, you remember me am the girl you leads to the convent in Meztitlan, SALUDARTE AND BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO KNOW HOW YOU GONE ... SALUDOS ..

Marps said...

Javier, que tal. I´m good, I just got to Tamazunchale. Ya estas en pachuca? Mañana me voy a Xilitla para ver un castillo. Sera genial yo creo. Esta noche voy a quedarme aqui en mi casa de campaña. And how are you?