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Well Amigos and Amigas, in Acapulco, the iconic resort and slum of nortamericana dreams! staying in an upper market hotel, on the 11th floor so the views are positively panoramic, the only drawback, except for my persistent habit (sorry Mark) is the only 2 lifts and they are slow, and even slower when some little shit from 1103, yes, we know who you are, punches all the buttons before running off laughing....the trip down then takes about 35 minutes....but at least when it happened last night <I was joined in entrapment with a young woman who helped me with my language problems.....

Curvas Peligroso and other road signs

Bill Shum
2006-03-24 22:21:22

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to these huge butterflies...like half a metre windspan, all spread out in their glory, or at least the last thing that went thru their minds is about all thats left...building up some nice layers on all the front facing surfaces....every now and then I pop the visor to get some air in the helmet....and I can tell you the inside of the helmet is getting a little putrid, yuck, I doused mine in bug repelent the other morning, even the awful taste of DEET was preferable....anyway, as soon as the lid is up you can guarantee a bug will fly straight in and lodge in your ear....oh man...this is soo bad..desperately trying to get a finger up inside the helmet....almost impossible...twisting the helmet around, wriggling the sunglass arms...its driving me crazy....then oops another curva peligroso...another warning this is a 126 kmh corner...aaarrrggghhh....so its find a spot to pull over...or palapa...off the gloves, off the helmet, peer inside...nada!!...check the earhole...nada...where did the little fcuker go?...helmet back on, gloves back on...check the road, back away again....2 kilos down the road...yes, she's a bit shy but tres prettyyou guessed it....this was the secondary reason for spraying the helmet with DEET....I figured that at least if anything got in it woulfd die!....

And all the people we come across have been really cool, and everyone is blown away when we get talking about where we are going...and more and more people getting onto our blogs to track where we go....lots of Mexicans and Mexamericans on hols at the moment, so lots of them speak some or lots of english, makes it a bit easier...I'm able to get by asking for stuff, its just trying to interpret the answers that still has me stuffed......and here in Acapulco english is widely spoken as it is a big tourista resort...mostly Mexicans tho' at the moment...

Passed a car and got past by one also...started thinking about passed and past..passed over, passed by, passed wind, passed thru, Passover, xmases past, you get the drift...the brain does go funny and Cuz, 1 is the lonliest number, but there's also the oneness of it all which is more comforting...

Well, I can´'t seem to get into much more than this fairly straight one today...too long off the bike maybe...this morning we found a bike shop just around
map on servo wallthe corner and these fantastic guys just dropped everything, made space for us to get the bikes in and changed the tyres while we did oil changes...just another chance encounter that has turned a seemingly degree-of-difficulty-9.5-days-work into a 3 hour interaction with these salt-of-the-earth local bike guys...sooo helpful, handy and obliging....and I got dirt under my fingernails, lying on the dirty floor, getting at the nuts under the sump, burning the fingers as the hot oil comes, getting the filters changed...well at least I enjoyed it!...and my tyre was probably the worst altho'still another 1000kms in it maybe but it was not too good on these wet roads and much more liable to puncture now its smooth....and she desperately needed an oil change ...so its all good...bueno even...now we just have to kill the rest of the day as we're booked in for tonight already...and tomorrow somewhere down towrds Puerto Escondido...
Crikey, look at the time...its almost nap o'clock...just pick up a couple of cervezas for the balcony, another marlboro light or 3 and a little lie-down...
This is so awful just writing mundane crapola...sorry...I'll be eback soon...thanks for the comments...and a couple of newbies on the dist list, welcome...and I still servicing the girls in Acapulco at MOTOMAR such cool guys, even let me help...love youse all...