I had every dog in Loreto chase after me today as I drove through the residential areas looking for the beach and hotel district. I'm staying at the Hotel Oasis, which is clean and overpriced but offers wireless Internet. I almost stayed in one of the beach bungalows you can see in the pictures below but I didn't have any food. On the way down to that beach I had to go down a sandy hill and the bike started to lose control near the bottom. I had my feet out and kicked to stay upright; I didn't think it was going to work. That was the other reason I didn't stay there, I didn't want to go up that hill first thing in the morning.
I didn't wake up very early this morning but I still made it the full distance to Loreto before dark. I saw lots of cows grazing near the road but none actually on it. I scared a calf down a hill as I went by a small group of adult cows. There's a custom in Mexico of using your left turn signal to alert the driver behind you that it's OK to pass, many slow-moving cars and trucks did this for me today. Every time I pass a road crew all of the younger guys give me the peace sign. For breakfast I had huevos rancheros at a very new-looking restaurant (Restaurant Marthita) and for dinner I had beef brisket at a Texas BBQ place near the beach here. They put on a Ricky Martin live DVD. He's got Mexico on lockdown. After that a Mexican customer came in and asked them to put on a Roy Orbison DVD; he sang along to Only the Lonely. It was projected onto a wall of the building one story up and was kind of bizarre. Hanging out in a Texas BBQ joint in a tourist town in Baja Mexico watching Roy Orbison projected 12 feet high while a Mexican man behind me repeats the chorus over and over again.
It was at that point that I thought about how experiencing all of this alone is good for some things and bad for others. Sometimes I wish I had someone to turn to and say, "What the..."
Tomorrow I'll be in La Paz at Joe's grandma's house. After that I take the ferry to Mazatlan and from there make my way to Mexico City and eventually Guatemala. Very tired from the ride today... I think I'm going to sleep very well.
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Beau, You may want to consider buying some dehydrated frijoles at the CCC store near Mary Lou's place, just up the street. Easy to prepare and it isn't a can. Also if you run into Memo, he lives around the corner, ask him to take you up to the bar and play pool, it is fun. ( It is quite close ) You usually play with some local Mexican guys, very friendly and would marvel at your trip. A couple good spots for breakfast "The Dock", at the Marina de La Paz( On Friday nights Jorge the Blues playing Mexican does a gig there... and La Perla Terrazo, on the malecon across from the bay. A little touristy, as La Paz is not very touristy, but open air and nice. Lunchtime must is "SUPER BURRO" on the main drag to town, Phil or Mary Lou will know. Have fun down there and at least have one Margarita at Mary Lou's....