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The trip really begins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bd18d3fc-f33a-4227-bd4c-0f07e29c7ff5/20220716_105728.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) We had a great ride through an old logging road with a stop to see Alsea Falls. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8271d81e-2bdc-474e-a60b-909c66310061/20220716_105744.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/17fde9a5-cdc3-42d9-89c4-68fbede247a0/20220716_105929.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/314a15f7-1093-40c2-b6a8-2bb166691212/image000000+%281%29.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6d1caabd-9e2a-4b77-a0f9-7ac96b809d49/20220716_113339.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) While we were in the area we stopped into the Alpine, OR cemetery. My dad's memorial is here along with a number of other extended Rhodes family members. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/66da6044-906d-41ea-89a9-394cdb449dce/20220517_085601.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) I took this pic flying back to Vancouver from Las Vegas on May 17th. Crater Lake was still in winter mode at that point. What a difference a couple of months can make. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a53edcf5-234a-4839-a224-0e16cbeeed49/20220716_163015.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Crater Lake and Wizard Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/446bd8cc-ab14-4a2a-838a-9bb240b7666e/20220716_165351.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) The first of most likely many obligatory motorcycle shots :-) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d060432d-8437-492e-85dc-2c7c4d282c73/IMG_20220717_162218.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) We had a great day riding around Crater Lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/479602a7-262d-4556-8f12-60e400007b3b/20220716_170646.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e3db7ff4-8692-4edb-a340-11e5ef9e91c3/20220716_172237.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2b89c431-a8b6-48e0-a646-82201de3a588/20220716_174850.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Waterfall on the outside of the crater rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/40cd9a68-2a0f-458a-ab1f-1f981c3e5bb9/20220716_194350.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Pickings were slim at the Mazama Campground store. I have to say that this is my first can of wine. I can't say it was great, but after a day's riding it tasted pretty good to me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7ddd0281-c3ad-4a70-995a-227394a80b6c/20220717_154830.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) This is at the Hat Creek RV park campground. It's where we wound up after leaving Crater lake. The creek made a perfect beer cooler while we relaxed after the day's ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/88d013a5-8c50-41b2-96fd-35b33df6dc59/20220718_100528.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Sulfur springs in Lassen Volcanic NP. Many of our picks from Lassen are on our Go Pro's. I have to figure out how to extract and post those next. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5be4a2bd-fe98-444a-b06c-55ba7b34fd81/20220718_163026.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) The first roadside medical treatment. I have the 1/2 inch wide strip of skin on my right wrist that seems to always be exposed to the sun because the sleeve of my riding jacket pulls back as I ride. I was starting to get sun burned on that little strip of skin. So a quick stop on the side of the road and some athletic tape from our med kit and problem solved. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8e5febc7-534a-40cc-a00b-7540568bd13a/20220720_105852.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Mt. Wheeler in Great Basin National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f02181c8-a3b5-481d-820a-1a9a472511db/20220720_110206.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Mt Wheeler - Great Basin National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/eaba62c3-a530-4699-a574-75b0ff23265a/20220720_110054.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) And one more of Mt. 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We plan on returning to this park when we come back north once we leave Bullhead City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/64d88c38-4c5c-4c59-97c3-eed94f2982c4/20220721_100825.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) One of the gas stations in Hanksville, UT. The convenience store part of the stations is built into the cliff. This is across the street from the gas station I left my wallet at in 2012 when riding with the boys and my friend Darrell. I didn't realize it until we stopped at the turn to Moab 77 miles down the road. On that trip I sent Darrell and the boys on to Moab while I went back to Hanksville to retrieve my wallet. In 105 degree heat that day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/378a6dd2-6850-41a7-add6-68f22c351089/20220721_113222.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) This van or one like it has been at Papa Joe's Gas and Go at the turn to Moab for at least 10 years. 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A grand total of maybe 30 bikes between the two classes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1e183b4a-103b-4855-89b7-82bfe5d244be/20220725_084845.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Our view from the RawHyde camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d005ecb7-3a0d-4cc9-87d2-392eab6494b8/20220725_100737.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) The valley view as we came in to Buena Vista , CO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/75c92bcd-453f-437c-a2a0-3402381ab658/20220725_145810.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Great Sand Dunes National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5d204b0f-838f-4c13-90de-1678d2e960db/20220725_134715.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Great Sand Dunes panarama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/45d7bf95-411f-40b1-a5e8-eb50bd52e895/20220725_141948.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) We started climbing the dunes, but our weekend of riding classes wore us out. We only made it about a quarter of the way up. Although it might be more accurate to say that dad wore out and Neil didn't want to keep going by himself LOL. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fac9e0a9-1eef-42c2-85aa-e01bde10c0c4/20220725_140154.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Lots of people hiking on the dunes. Dune sledding and boarding were the main activities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8edb804d-b8c1-4063-8c45-0c8e25a08b40/20220726_123818.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) The view up the valley from the ruins at Chimney Rocks National Monument, Colorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1565ba6c-292b-445c-a963-27346c9315d9/image000002+%281%29.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) When we turned into Chimney Rocks National Monument I assumed it would just have an interpretive display about the geology of the rock formation. As it turns out there is quite an archeological site here as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3d0edc03-2635-40ab-bef9-1f95f082f7b8/20220726_122450.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Atop the hill is an array of ruins that were part of an astronomical observatory kind of like Stonehenge The ruins are set up to track the sun as it rises and sets between the two chimney rock formations.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/85d45c88-4454-41f8-8d4e-7b358e40fc41/20220726_122431.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Chimney Rock National Monument https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e0225ee0-ec7a-46eb-a4b3-63876526ffca/20220726_122130.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) it was a 2.5 mile ride up a very wash boarded road then a short hike up to the ruins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dee16e2a-f860-43be-b159-0628f4054ef9/20220726_121830.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) We had to have an official "We made it" picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/607b6c9b-db1a-481f-8563-fd3e4609e745/20220726_103456.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) This is from a pullout we stopped at on Colorado Hwy 160 just after we went over Wolf Creek Pass. Its a 10,000 foot pass and we were cold so on the way down from the pass when we saw a view like this it was time to pull off and warm up a bit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/393016e8-73f3-4b71-975d-a9a3e94a779e/20220727_110437.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) This is another national monument we just saw a sign for and decided to take a detour and check out. Ruins at Hovenweep National Monument. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b400c9ba-5031-4c6a-a75d-ef932aaa02bc/20220727_110140.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) More Hovenweep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b2b7dbab-9c8e-4473-96fc-ed53e2b73169/20220727_110107.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Hovenweep https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cbca12ba-fb43-4750-9b36-60f075c20255/20220727_110055.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) And Hovenweep again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/78d0c9fc-6636-4b78-911e-076302bb68ba/20220727_123056.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Twin Rocks - Bluff, UT https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/285a73e8-2eed-474c-83d0-2286b4590cfa/20220727_123126.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) A panorama of Twin Rocks from the back side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fa2ae10b-029c-430f-b880-9ecd93a93145/20220727_133941.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Entering Monument Valley. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/21b6edce-7b6f-45a4-8f1c-08a6ebb4f300/20220727_140355.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Monument Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/91e1daf8-4ecb-4ab4-80d9-518709b385f9/20220727_140351.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Monument Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f5439937-384c-4499-b605-6833572be4c3/20220727_135205.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) And Monument Valley again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/61241e4e-8a78-4019-bc1a-238758feff11/20220727_060745.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Sunset from our camp site in Page, AZ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/570024c6-5ba8-4f8a-9abc-355ad365baec/20220728_091913.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Horseshoe Bend - Page, AZ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/97f3bbc9-651e-4490-8031-f072a13eb27f/20220728_091721.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) We took pictures for a mom and daughter so they returned the favor and took our picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dd6c104b-91b7-481f-b209-554a6064af78/20220728_091544.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) There are actually 3 kayakers on the river floating it in this picture. If I tried to zoom in so you could see them all you could see is dots on water, but it does look like a nice section of river to float. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/99a80ddf-9a2d-4fa0-873f-62a5ec34c17e/image000001+%281%29.jpg Vancouver to Bullhead City (Updated 7/31/2022) Neil found these during a gas stop and found them amusing. That said he didn't buy them and tell me what they tasted like either, haha. https://www.northrider.me/bullhead-city-to-bullhead-city daily 0.75 2022-08-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1e36090c-bb9c-499a-86f6-0fc2512c1d7f/20220802_155957.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Gabe, Me and Neil at the top of the Palm Springs Tramway. It's just outside of town and at 8,500 feet in elevation a great way to beat the heat in Palm Springs! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2eb79c5a-84ae-4527-85f4-ed78d747499d/20220802_162201.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The three of us took about an hour hike around at the top of the tram. The trail lead to a series of "notches" with views down to the valley floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c5cbb0db-c96e-456c-85c2-f723e866e63f/20220802_155435.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) More from the top of the tram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2d6af408-b4c3-4b8a-bd16-27a8d6c6ed57/20220802_163323.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/15efccde-a020-4bc5-9bd1-70bc0c5944ff/20220802_155235.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) another of the notch views. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cfb0c105-46ab-40b9-af45-c84e70a1144e/20220802_163647.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) I couldn't get my phone and camera ready in time for a good picture, but it was cool to see this hawk on the ground. A few seconds later it flew off with a mouse in it's talons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a7a3721e-7cf1-4f82-b1ba-08cb11125586/20220803_112455.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) A Cholla cactus in Joshua Tree National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8f0f79ff-a6a4-42fb-bcac-f946799a712a/20220803_112345.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The Cholla garden. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1e9f10ec-08e1-4ee8-80f8-2ae80c8b46d7/20220803_121550.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Our little bouldering expedition in Joshua Tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/862775a5-3f89-42a6-a332-1d25e3077be2/20220803_120724.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) We were aiming to climb to the top of the arch above the hole in this rock formation. In the end we wound up on a different section. Going up was easy but dad's old knees weren't so good at coming down! LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a555a38b-1bd9-4b0e-991e-127448dc36ac/20220803_115705.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b47ecd60-8976-4628-8a87-008985938d1e/20220803_114604.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) A Joshua tree and an old man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/85d2e3e8-e789-4cf9-b4f1-5760fdf03dd4/20220803_114543.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Joshua Tree and a young man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f83960b7-567c-4ef9-bcf6-760b8a5ea759/20220803_123441.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Skull Rock - Joshua Tree National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1660612909023-1WWOIHQJSWEPYOKNVQNT/20220811_110303.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Zion National Park panorama from the top of Scout Lookout. This was the top of our climb on our day in Zion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2863112f-43f4-4e8b-82d6-08ed953cca2f/20220811_111649.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) A view up one of the valleys as we climbed up to Scout Lookout in Zion NP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/022f4e93-d7c3-4c2f-bb96-0da6ebeb62d1/20220811_111952.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The final group of switchbacks on the trail to Scout Lookout in Zion. This was a tough climb but a bit easier for me than the hike at the South Rim since that one was done in stair steps rather than the ramp style trail here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1f2f2691-10ed-461c-aa2d-23cd0c20f7df/20220811_112407.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) You can see the trail up to Scout Lookout on the left side of this picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/54c2a750-087c-4bd4-870a-cc63a8f69a4e/20220811_113426.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The base of Zion Canyon. With all the rain lately it's very green and the river it pretty high for this time of year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c870f118-afed-4130-93cf-1fdefe024f6c/20220811_113436.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) It's hard to see in these pictures just how steep the trail is in some parts. In the background you can see the end of the trail as it hits the valley floor also. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/587e5d52-cff8-4755-b433-bdb78656d598/20220811_113659.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) More of some of the lower trail switchbacks at Scout Lookout. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6a48571b-3441-4d75-8b80-5444339d94bd/20220811_110232.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Angel's Landing. If you look closely you can see the people on the ridge climbing to the lookout at the top. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/92959c00-e7cf-4280-af7f-785e2411f07a/20220811_130105.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Zion NP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dd886402-d666-473f-9f36-4bfc6cefcb21/20220811_130750.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) After we finished the Scout Lookout trail we came back to the Zion Lodge and did the Emerald Pools trail. This is the waterfall that feeds the Lower Emerald Pool with the trail we take to the Middle and Upper pools. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9a1e06d3-9c07-464b-9d45-854eb652f4ba/20220812_155457.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Hoodoos at Bryce Canyon National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/31d8c30c-6cd8-4eb8-9301-11770f8ba7a5/20220812_155549.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Hoodoos in The Amphitheater at Bryce. This is my third trip to Bryce and Neil's second, but this is the first time either of us have had a chance to do a hike down through the hoodoos. It's an amazing hike to do! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/42e78616-5d0b-43f2-b752-06379b5a2680/20220812_160629.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Taken from the rim down into the amphitheater. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5837d674-f15c-4614-9dc9-16bfbf1724d8/20220812_162214.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) One of my favorite views in Bryce Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7c672719-3a58-4929-9ded-4e442803e716/20220813_094443.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The holes in the rock formations at Bryce are called windows. This is looking up from the bottom of the canyon during our hike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ad552dd4-35b8-49d9-8d67-2d276c94e383/20220813_094826.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Looking up from the bottom in Bryce. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fa33acdf-0816-4cca-9fa2-13b5e1a4445d/20220813_095030.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Several of the trails go through tunnels cut into the rock. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b4fd6e46-c1dc-4b36-a2f3-7ef2f170ab73/20220813_095218.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Yet more switchbacks on the hike. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/10a108a3-7f66-408f-9d37-431c57f7b88b/20220813_102643.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Our goal was that point up on the rim. The total distance on this hike was about seven miles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e67f93c4-d3e5-4a5f-b238-e8d5d387c5eb/20220813_103054.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Me in another of the carved out tunnels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7eb63a35-8803-43aa-b11d-e6ab6acdc77f/20220813_104710.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/71f3fc49-7a15-45ed-9a89-e6a72c642bc5/20220813_104838.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e5c7aa0d-a068-44df-848e-8547329d117d/20220813_104929.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1660614625881-PNY8B6JGMSNMKA5SUJQC/20220813_111924.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/32e3ad2e-cc52-4e2e-915f-41013a08fc8a/20220814_063820.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Bryce Canyon sunrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/75276aca-5803-4036-b182-5fc84593cdba/20220814_064033.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Another Bryce sunrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/77036679-5890-438d-9bab-2da39dbeaf9c/20220814_145344.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) These pics are a bit out of order. This shot was coming into Grand Junction. We hit a pretty heavy thunder storm. We had lightening around us and the wind was so strong that we weren't safe to ride on the freeway. We had to pull off the freeway for about 20 minutes and let the worst of the storm go by before finishing the last 50 miles into Grand Junction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/199dc700-0b9e-4866-be40-3ef3805fca46/20220815_143134.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) We had an oil change and a new set of tires installed in Grand Junction today (8/15).. The rear tires we had replaced still had some tread left on them so we decided to keep them and will use them later. Unfortunately we forgot to bring straps along to tie them to the bikes when we went to pick them up. So it was wear a tire bandolero to get them back to the hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3de63ce8-3596-4b8b-b2e8-191188af4a65/20220815_143152%280%29.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) One for each of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6afeb72a-f78d-4a4e-b9e6-4e90a172f653/20220808_115826.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Along Route 88 near Peach Springs, AZ we found Grand Canyon Caverns. The caverns were closed but we ran into this guy on the road in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/234951c1-1641-4fe3-8f3a-a3066238d0f1/20220808_120358.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Our official Route 66 sign picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/61768710-f981-46c7-94a3-38f44a2b820c/20220808_132603.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) This is a pretty regular occurrence for us to this point. Another thunder storm on our way to the South Rim. Luckily there was a gas station here and we pulled off and hung out at the station for an hour to let this one go by. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1298760f-61f2-4245-b206-c5d016a94b0b/20220809_071226.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) South Kaibab Trail view at the South Rim - Grand Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bed868d8-6322-45c6-af2c-4979215586f4/20220809_071921.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The switchbacks on the South Kaibab Trail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ad4071e4-b899-465b-a90d-bd4baf5092de/20220809_073036.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Grand Canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9d74ea46-7fca-46a9-8111-314cb0a0f0bd/20220809_074659.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) South Kaibab Trail - Grand Canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7e222546-e0b9-4f58-92c6-e2203a8f0afc/20220809_075104.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Con trails over the Grand Canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e5696586-0351-4357-87d1-f51754fed1ba/20220809_080745.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) We made it to Cedar Ridge. It's as far as we went on the South Kaibab trail before turning around for the climb back out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/97e1aa5e-3cb5-4a22-9c06-d9dd77554d88/20220809_080900.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Back to the canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7cd1a5f6-2ff9-4d21-b0aa-7b8e66dae52a/20220809_084843.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) If you look closely you can see other hikers on the switchbacks back up to the canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/414a3349-f6bc-467e-b7e9-f84e1baa80a4/20220809_114517.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) A beautiful view of the canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/621dd238-7dfc-4573-8ca9-8bf06110fa23/20220809_120349.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9cbb0866-63b6-4a50-951c-f35c87a359fb/20220809_154046.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The Colorado River from Navajo Bridge at Marble Canyon. This is on the road as we road from the south rim to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ef8b36c8-53d4-4a8b-a9f1-8f80ea1bd642/20220809_154132.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Looking the other direction from Navajo Bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/66234cae-032c-488f-8818-967ef47577d3/20220809_194312.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The moon over the north rim of the Grand Canyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/27d3bd4f-6908-4349-a0fd-bfa9beedcc62/20220810_072935.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) North Rim panorama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4cb5a404-da54-46fc-b775-742d78ea8309/20220810_074126.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) These two again https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e77e936a-422a-4103-b158-4ab5c921c3d5/20220810_115155.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) From a short walk we did at the North Rim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/63f1d6d0-6391-4c95-9d68-3ff2683858e7/20220810_124743.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The view from Bright Angel Point - Grand Canyon North Rim https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0986c237-740b-4924-84ea-c85c270da4b4/20220811_103745.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Scout Lookout Switchbacks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/94b9a8ec-798a-41b6-9467-444a9a59f13e/20220816_095501.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Big horn sheep along the highway on our way between Grand Junction and Gateway Colorado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dcb2d2c5-b696-4e1a-b79a-959281d15e1f/20220816_115648.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) The Dolores River and canyon near Gateway, CO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/99b961c7-f1d2-4fc2-a7dd-1625456e4bd7/20220816_115757.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Dolores canyon was a great ride along the river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6292cb67-bd56-43ba-b006-b30ddb316280/20220816_120420.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Dolores Canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9c784189-4179-40da-92c8-c73098b9b60b/20220817_075935.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) View from a lookout on the road into Mesa Verde National Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/575735db-d1a8-44d2-bd4b-ce5928358f47/20220817_090723.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/89492d68-a434-41f2-9bb1-0c36139e8f25/20220817_090736.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4bf86645-fbc5-4513-893a-fbaaca304097/20220817_090911.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/483d74f5-056a-4d66-b023-87821d79b4f6/20220817_092011.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Cliff Palace - Mesa Verde National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d881a5d9-fae1-4c44-b6bb-18a5f2a5e113/20220818_102049.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Landscape Arch - Arches National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f2420e4f-999c-49c8-82c3-55382e520ee8/20220818_103938.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Arches National Park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/446d62f4-e893-4a4a-9374-dbc5c0d4346e/20220818_105150.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Partition Arch - Arches NP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e172ebe5-90b9-446c-8ba4-0d81f45e7bbe/20220818_105456.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Partition Arch - Arches NP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2fa90830-3f10-4ff7-b04b-f5a85799084b/20220818_105617.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Navajo Arch - Arches NP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/98cd0b7c-2581-45ae-b1c7-4731cac129b5/20220818_112923.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Double O Arch - Arches NP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9fa5f5a4-6c60-4b9d-8575-a55e66f31283/20220818_114521.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) This is the official park service trail we took on our hike in Arches. It's difficult to tell from this picture but the sides of this trail are sheer and quite high. It was the most high and narrow trail I've seen in a national park without any safety rails, ropes, etc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1612d381-b3b1-4f67-8cf8-f9ee52dbd2bc/20220818_114632.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Neil on the trail to Double O Arch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8e143aa7-4ea8-41f6-9fa9-5a57a85fc434/20220818_124825.jpg Bullhead City to Bullhead City (Updated 8/7/2022) Balancing Rock - Arches NP. https://www.northrider.me/pagem daily 0.75 2022-09-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c7a55d30-b36e-4f13-a158-c6bd0d1fa725/20220915_141232.jpg Mexico A bay we stopped at on the way from Guerrero Negro to Loreto. Time to get off the bike, give the butt a rest and have a drink of water. Each of us has 1 liter of water in the bag strapped to our gas tank. We can drink from a hose in it with a bite valve. The water in the hose is pretty warm, but the water in the bladder stays nice and cool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/24cfc68e-2545-4a9d-ac08-b796215f1f60/20220915_141245.jpg Mexico Same Bay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c1fe9641-986a-457a-9afa-01ca8458d4ce/20220916_141017.jpg Mexico We arrived! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f653d8d4-648b-417e-8eeb-9a5b89ca1550/20220916_141050.jpg Mexico Both of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/da4d0c35-8245-44ee-a0d1-b3c0377e9601/20220916_125155.jpg Mexico Looking up the street our hotel was on toward the water in Loreto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fa8ef34c-3136-429e-a920-be997ad86249/20220916_130920.jpg Mexico The main street in Loreto along the beach. Well, there is a beach, just on the other side of the marina behind where this picture was taken from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1cd63f06-2a1e-485d-82b0-71585be13d00/20220916_105301.jpg Mexico Speaks for it's self. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2091d2c4-e69e-4b30-9aa0-76bda2bef789/20220916_140638.jpg Mexico A pedestrian shopping street. Most everything was closed since we were in Loreto for Mexican Independence Day. No that is not May 5th. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7c7fc017-dfc6-4a0c-a228-1d2d0cbab9c2/20220916_142049.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5439b8e4-812e-49b5-9a10-71b45d01f893/20220916_201540.jpg Mexico Town square all lit up for Independence Day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c1285ba1-b4bd-4212-b3dd-b97967ac65fd/20220916_201613.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5fa2e8b4-f7e3-4f99-a85d-d307deb1fa3c/20220917_092137.jpg Mexico Just south of the actual town on the ride to La Paz. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/102ba341-8ba6-4536-abca-79bde4b743b4/received_462861479140947.jpeg Mexico Pictures taken by Serge as we rode down to La Paz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/289c635e-fc32-4f3b-a935-4f8756431535/received_593356025770990.jpeg Mexico Some of the road conditions we've found so far on the Baja. Hurricane Kay really did a number on the roads the whole way down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0b388f75-d1e5-439d-b64f-17dbeb8881a1/received_1125606641679023.jpeg Mexico On the way to La Paz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/551ef626-8b36-468d-89db-1931cde2e60f/20220914_152824.jpg Mexico The border between north (Baja California) and south (Baja Sur) Baja. Once in Baja Sur you switch from Pacific to Mountain time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2a716b18-2ea2-480a-9182-a99c99e6fc5e/20220914_113227.jpg Mexico Highway 5 rock slides. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6cf95014-aff3-4824-8f5a-cd1a51ca2103/20220914_113303.jpg Mexico Remnants of hurricane Kay on Highway 5. The section of highway 5 through the mountains toward Chapala had many sections of rock slides like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d01917e9-b09a-4fd4-9dfd-030fde869d51/20220914_101312.jpg Mexico Gulf of California near Puertecitos, Baja California. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/efd44dab-57fd-4f39-bc52-2e784c4c0d75/20220914_101604.jpg Mexico Serge, Neil and the Gulf of California on the way down Highway 5 south of San Felipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/799110df-d6a9-48ad-82cf-6a41febb987e/20220913_095425.jpg Mexico The San Felipe lighthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0bf27038-a000-4964-8fe5-878df40a983c/20220914_062100.jpg Mexico Sunrise in San Felipe bay. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0d0430ea-1383-467f-b0f0-2e88807c7324/20220913_095416.jpg Mexico The view south along the bay from San Felipe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/57f63f8e-27f7-44f2-90e2-d1ebac78b4f2/20220913_095332.jpg Mexico Looking north from the San Felipe lighthouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ceefbbe1-be06-4192-9295-38eb1bd10671/20220912_151142.jpg Mexico The name of the town on big concrete blocks seems to be the norm in Mexico. I've seen this all over. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8d41e782-a179-4925-a8c9-1dbbe52d8344/20220919_132001.jpg Mexico Tying down bikes on the ferry from La Paz to Topolobampo. There were 5 riders total on the ship. A pair of Mexican guys on a Harley and an Indian, Neil and I and then Bob who is on the little Yamaha in the foreground. I had messaged Bob several months ago on a biker website when he mentioned he was traveling in the same area and around the same time we thought we would be. It was fun to run into him out of the Blue and chat for a while with him on the ferry ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/12b9a824-2382-4023-93f9-3cda7288ec47/20220920_095159.jpg Mexico The town of Topolobampo the morning after our arrival on the Mexican mainland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c6c9e37e-5450-4e4b-af23-546dcf5cd409/20220921_132115.jpg Mexico Beautiful country on the road to Yecora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1cfb0e06-1669-4274-ae25-159f31ecbe81/20220921_114503.jpg Mexico Starting to climb into the Sierra Madre Mountains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dc387df5-64c4-4057-bb4e-4442d43f75d4/20220921_132159.jpg Mexico Neil climbing up to get a picture out over the trees on a roadside picture stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ed966a55-b3d8-481a-90aa-369c1db4a4cd/20220921_121759.jpg Mexico On the way in to Yecora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b434421d-a8db-470f-b1c4-5bb301780b88/20220921_121826.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/079a13ca-c2e3-434c-808b-c62e3a076c49/20220921_121924.jpg Mexico This was a very windy and narrow section of road. Just time to stop and take a break for a minute and soak up the scenery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bc922acd-2c93-4fb5-96df-9f45b5982bcf/20220921_125625.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/025b16d9-6381-4c2a-8ee6-1f2088d7941d/20220921_125721.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4833a4f2-5006-49b9-b696-42572f7f58d8/20220921_133436.jpg Mexico Starting to get a feel of what Copper Canyon might look like, but we are still a hundred miles or so away from it here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f9a06827-59f9-43cb-a58c-82de40255c3f/20220921_133443.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/74c11fc8-3830-4d5d-896f-ba787bbb5441/20220921_133447.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8365ce5f-8fec-4732-92f8-17bbdfb68c76/20220921_134553.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f96e6e8f-3c81-450f-9dee-6cc8c0cd8800/20220921_134620.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c4cfa7a4-ea3f-46d4-93fe-802f8465d8fc/20220921_163330.jpg Mexico Thunder storm rolling in from our hotel porch at the King Hotel in Yecora. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/38c1b317-03d2-441e-a410-32c386f71691/20220921_164954.jpg Mexico It's hard to tell from this picture but this may have been the hardest rain I've ever seen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/eb927920-2b79-4b04-a08a-fd38d9c7a69f/20220922_084051.jpg Mexico Leaving Yacora though the fog on the climb to Creel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a7fb8a3a-ab5c-4c6b-bf97-96e28f70eec3/20220922_084059.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6b9c4da2-be6c-49ea-93eb-52fd9bc94d4b/20220922_095308.jpg Mexico What passes for a roadside pull off on the road to Creel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cad6ce54-e532-46ee-89ef-f36e651bda46/20220922_095340.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f2cb5454-d472-467c-8c60-bdc4ea8828ba/20220922_133531.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a570edb9-cf1c-4744-9356-066b8e5fefb1/20220922_133536.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fd59620c-007d-4479-bd2c-22eb06d1bd8d/20220922_135859.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8b5ccc1e-58f6-49a3-8cad-93a664c1d8c9/20220922_135905.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c1dc235a-630f-4805-8b99-521f818b9887/20220922_170837.jpg Mexico Downtown Creel. The jumping off point for our ride down to the bottom of Copper Canyon and the town of Batopilas the next day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/96727932-372e-428c-9d5e-38b1725c122d/20220923_105737.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/616617fd-b59f-4d03-89cd-5cd420f9a48c/20220923_105747.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8cab5e14-fffe-4467-b104-ba015ce1d521/20220923_110952.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3115132c-7aa3-4b80-bb15-22293cc79b47/20220923_111012.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/14a3a97a-c0dd-4f1b-937f-ea94b61c668a/20220923_111054.jpg Mexico Neil on the canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6a8cd322-8eb8-4e4f-85e4-e008f9d95acf/20220923_111120.jpg Mexico Me on the canyon rim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9aa08b90-f9a1-487e-b51c-e42b153c3ed5/20220923_112133.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3c8baf49-bce9-4986-8082-e06ddcb2bcb2/20220923_112438.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f943a1c6-6770-40ef-9480-e297ab8af4eb/20220923_121925.jpg Mexico Time to start the descent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/669768ae-1a32-47a0-bd3a-053e8411583c/20220923_122557.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4666868a-6f99-499c-83f4-19490c9d27f6/20220923_122837.jpg Mexico Some "traffic" coming up behind us while we stopped for a rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/36d24021-a965-47fc-996b-b79539e6a4d5/20220923_122855.jpg Mexico She just threw rocks on the side of the flock to guide them where she wanted. It was interesting to watch her shepherd the goats to a place to graze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e8903889-32da-4fa1-9ca1-fc0ee643c128/20220923_123143.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ee814f42-e553-4dcb-92f2-373070da9d95/20220923_123820.jpg Mexico Some of the switchbacks on the way down. It was in this section where the washout I describe in my update was located. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2e127e47-59bc-40cd-8b5f-5017536f519b/20220923_124138.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/af92578c-ae73-453c-bc31-7710f66794fb/20220923_131710.jpg Mexico Neil going around one of the obstacles we encountered on the way into Batopilas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6fee4445-cb6f-438b-9949-b09859e58159/20220923_131725.jpg Mexico Absolutely beautiful country down in the canyon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/627f2590-7d9a-4e6e-aba8-f721cfe98ab5/20220923_133711.jpg Mexico And we made it!! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f4d7a268-6f02-4a70-9f35-1c5256a82624/20220923_133931.jpg Mexico The entrance to the town of Batopilas as we cross the bridge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/202a646f-7551-4a28-9a8c-f80e4a02a21d/20220923_135652.jpg Mexico The aftermath of me fording the mud puddle on the way into Batopilas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/757c1d6e-c893-41c5-bd97-daf18d8cf012/20220923_145216.jpg Mexico All the buildings on the main street were painted these pastel colors. It's really a pretty little town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6399fb71-55e9-4285-bcd8-3afcaf87a69a/20220923_170334.jpg Mexico The town hall and police station on the town square. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cbcc6049-ce29-447a-ab39-da8ebda0a009/20220923_170356.jpg Mexico More of Bato. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fc7f81de-ec16-4fc2-9a2e-53d1b8214f74/20220924_085651.jpg Mexico While trying to leave town we ran into the construction crew putting a new pipe of some sort. The had the ditch dug across the one and only road in and out of town. So we had to wait for them to bury the pipe and tamp down the dirt before we could start the climb out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/91683f2c-943c-4d74-b4cf-5687ba7e9fc8/20220924_092306.jpg Mexico Up we go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5d2af98e-0eec-440f-a9ec-3f1c88a825c8/20220924_090346.jpg Mexico Different views but just has pretty on the way out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/459a1082-cbe7-4762-bc60-b1934028ff05/20220924_091823.jpg Mexico A foot bridge across the river to reach one of the tiny settlements along the canyon floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/451f0fb2-b9bd-4d27-84f0-aca8e1f5a1f6/20220925_113747.jpg Mexico Our trucker friend syphoning the gas out of Neil's tank into the coke bottle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2902a3cd-cdb9-46f3-aab6-c26f14cf331d/20220925_113916.jpg Mexico Neil, getting ready to try and start the rig as the driver squirts gas into the air intake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/69e2fabf-bb46-42cb-894a-d5fcaf0b03b6/20220925_113955.jpg Mexico And it roars back to life! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/be4efc24-0e27-4b96-a1e6-5f8bd7d26332/Durango+Title.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7b30a250-4378-4924-93ac-10bd282333a1/20220926_124030.jpg Mexico Tire changing time in the parking lot of our hotel in Durango. Much thanks to Bob whom we met on the La Paz ferry for giving us instruction and help in this task! We will get more practice as we have three more tires to switch out while we visit friends in Ajijic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7c65fa8e-639a-485c-a0e9-aa5935d8049b/20220927_111417.jpg Mexico The view from the old highway 40 between Durango and Mazatlan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d15e3a01-eafb-47a3-b156-c63c949c3951/20220927_111432.jpg Mexico More Hwy 40 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a9c1b213-173d-4e88-98db-a9a7f52dfc7d/20220927_111915.jpg Mexico Still Hwy 40 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8ad4e701-7d0f-4efa-8e96-0db6c67a0639/20220927_115521.jpg Mexico This was a very slow but scenic detour around one of the toll plazas between Durango and Mazatlan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/eb763f3a-d9cb-483b-8433-3618dc2a721f/20220927_115528.jpg Mexico Highway 40 begins just across the boarder from McAllan Texas and goes from there to Mazatlan. The old road was built in the 1940s. The new toll road was completed and opened in 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/03db527c-7fdf-4072-b5b7-82b3be0a452b/20220927_111915.jpg Mexico Last Hwy 40 pic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/59c4d8b9-46ca-458f-aee3-f3303e08c63d/20220928_173215.jpg Mexico Our bit of luxury in Puerto Vallarta for 3 nights. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4fcb6937-05e8-4c8f-b8dc-282b14dfa815/20220929_100014.jpg Mexico The view from the Puerta Vallarta Malacon (beach walk). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f0b89f7a-cc7d-4bfc-91e2-28927eb2543a/20220929_100230.jpg Mexico On the Malacon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2682497b-19f4-424e-8ec7-4b314867b317/20220929_101754.jpg Mexico It seems that every town of any size has one of these signs. Had to get PV's. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7b5ea966-f40a-4945-9e85-41d9f0a8b6c1/20220929_122259.jpg Mexico The view from the rooftop pool of our Puerto Vallarta hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3a3f186b-512e-45d2-b998-e0b204bf568c/20221001_153458.jpg Mexico Our view for two days from the hotel in San Patricio/Melaque. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/88066658-92f8-49f9-a83c-45aa75b06373/20221003_084522.jpg Mexico No real winds as we were on the very outer bands of the hurricane, but two days of pretty much constant rain when we first arrived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/29ea243f-2728-41df-806b-1e10d24b087c/20221004_110529.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f00266d5-c4a0-4642-9e4e-62874e978a31/20221004_110600.jpg Mexico The bay at San Patricio today (10/4) on a much nicer day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b319fbaf-7f45-4ed8-8e48-09fc5bda5664/20221004_111328.jpg Mexico And Melaque's town sign https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b42f673c-9dae-4634-a3f2-b011f812d9fb/20221005_080255.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e3a180be-b701-44c1-822d-bf125ce5f486/San+Patrico+to+Tequila.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7acfc11e-2a5d-407e-9ee8-df3f14c42866/20221005_153104.jpg Mexico The start of the repair of my flat as we arrived in Ajijic. At least we got the wheel off before the rain started. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4eba7856-01dd-4c2d-8879-339b91ad2005/image000000+%283%29.jpg Mexico Getting ready to start the change process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/eabe87f6-2217-4240-969e-be56779beb5a/image000001+%282%29.jpg Mexico We were able to get the old tire off pretty easily. This is the start of that process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b9576cf2-79fa-43c1-9435-0f51de00aaf7/20221005_163931.jpg Mexico My shelter during the storm. Unfortunately Neil was off taking my wheel to the tire shop to see about getting the new tire mounted. The owners of the stand were very nice and let me pull everything under the awning to keep things dry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fed6dcf8-d5e1-491d-924b-5313a64bdfb3/image000002+%282%29.jpg Mexico This is after the flat repair. This is in our friends driveway starting to do Neil's front tire. In the end we just took them to the shop to be done by the pros. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5ac210bf-0232-4d2d-9fcc-2ea18cbc626f/20221006_152501.jpg Mexico After all the time on the road and all the tire changes it was time to give the bikes a wash. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6096df9e-e56c-48a2-9485-321b09663da8/20221007_173652.jpg Mexico Sitting on the roof terrace of our friends Jim and Christopher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9d89c4f3-525b-40c5-8e8f-b5144413743a/20221007_173707.jpg Mexico The view from the terrace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9953e034-c6a8-4272-b915-42f2cef38eec/20221008_104318.jpg Mexico Lake Chapala during a walk while one of the tires was being mounted at the tire shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a93ae673-1467-4725-b380-607c78b9b0b2/20221008_105446.jpg Mexico A quick snack for the a burro during our walk in Ajijic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6b0414c9-2f5c-4352-a261-39a312228d8b/20221010_083528.jpg Mexico The Tequila cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2755617d-5d86-4b7f-aabc-8f4e331359bd/20221009_160917.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/471e6fc2-bd67-40e3-911b-3611b6d4e54c/20221010_083304.jpg Mexico The obligarory town sign. Every town seems to have one of these somewhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/711954e7-cc92-4bfb-ba86-efce1f466a71/20221010_083400.jpg Mexico Tequila main square and cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dc616615-8693-4b7d-b542-483a87a0e12f/20221010_105552.jpg Mexico Agave "piña" halved and ready to be put in the oven. All of the work in this distillery is done by hand including the packing of the piña into the ovens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/07f29ca5-2d93-4b21-9b02-639a99ce5a2d/20221010_110544.jpg Mexico On the tour of the distilery grounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/23cc7e48-f799-4f9b-baef-78c9582fc695/20221010_111503.jpg Mexico Agave fields at the distilery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a5f85f8f-a071-4323-b3a9-aff9cf784567/20221010_111805.jpg Mexico View from the "mirador" (balcony or viewing platform) of the town of Tequila. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a752d812-65c5-4329-98d7-22335746cfd3/20221010_111846.jpg Mexico The town of Tequila https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3a880211-af53-4e4a-9b86-351347e2409e/20221010_112917.jpg Mexico Each section of an agave field has a stone like this that records The sign has the section location, year the agave were planted, It's section number, number of plants in the section and number of rows in the section. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3048acde-a70e-4de1-9a6f-f83917638430/20221010_114022.jpg Mexico after the piña are baked in the ovens they are brought here and a big stone grinds them into this pulp. The workers then manually fork the pulp out so the liquid can be sent to the next phase of the process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/82755fd9-7889-4660-9e6d-ea3b86a9821e/20221010_114502.jpg Mexico Tequila fermintation vats. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ae0196a8-1fa7-4360-9a82-54291331a761/20221010_114816.jpg Mexico Neil checking out the fermentation vat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9ff383d6-6cdf-4c42-a71c-2813dc7d1fe6/20221010_112120.jpg Mexico I don't know how these guys got in the picture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a7e3e5c3-842c-4849-a033-0c74cdb52aaf/20221010_115306.jpg Mexico This is the name of the distillery. However there was another company, in Europe I believe, who used the Abuelos name so everywhere except Mexico it is sold and labeled as Forteleza. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dd8f2cac-22d9-43e7-b61e-8bbac5a5516f/20221010_115820.jpg Mexico Aging barrels. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/62f90463-c26b-438a-8744-71e2e2e0fae4/20221010_120713.jpg Mexico The hand made cork bottle stoppers. The top is hand cast plaster, hand painted and then the cork is attached by hand before they are used for bottling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a69fb65e-3ff4-442a-a936-4e30236fb621/20221010_120917.jpg Mexico More stoppers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c37d28e3-d285-479a-9126-af0fc0e7a089/20221010_121258.jpg Mexico The tasting room is in a cave at the distillery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7e1752df-1765-48c2-bb39-caa901bc29a4/20221010_121328.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d28ba69e-a55a-4555-b925-df1152a683f2/20221010_121539.jpg Mexico The first of five types we tasted. It's very good! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c9ed0a28-e757-4156-834f-dcd2a0296db2/20221010_123305.jpg Mexico The Forteleza offerings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/48d10a0b-064f-48fa-9177-7cc4efa8e2b3/20221011_171411.jpg Mexico We are out of Tequila here in Morelia for this pic. The hotel we stayed out there was offering a free Avocado Beer tasting. I'd say it was not terrible, definitely beerish, but not something I'd order again. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/41755742-9dbf-4081-8239-e50e154ad643/Clipboard.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/91b05fb0-7017-454b-915e-df69c92c466e/20221014_090152.jpg Mexico Morning balloon tours over Teotihuacan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d7ddfc98-d738-400b-a785-8a73b05b0271/20221014_090545.jpg Mexico Balloons over the pyramids. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0aaf001c-3880-4b8a-8282-0b7896ba8a0b/20221014_091206.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/96fde264-6c8d-44b4-9297-03f59629f8b5/20221014_091534.jpg Mexico Teotihuacan main plaza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d1b1f312-43c7-46ca-b181-2609df6aff48/20221014_090326.jpg Mexico 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the Sun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7b64b30e-a477-4839-a48b-bdb1e189057e/20221014_102207.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/85e69b34-b829-4fc2-8269-f1528c28a6a1/20221014_104058.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fa27b57e-7c83-42c1-b14f-8152506ed0e5/20221014_104603.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/093f3d6c-f864-41cf-add3-0cc8507090c9/20221014_104756.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/85f2c6e4-3e45-4e0d-9068-3006c32b144d/20221014_121215.jpg Mexico Mexico National Theater https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e6e6acbc-15e6-4a3f-9f3a-a902cd2e9f70/20221014_140238.jpg Mexico Neil and Paxon at the entrance to the Metropolitan Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8e789282-0f77-465e-92ad-28b16870fef6/20221014_141333.jpg Mexico Zocalo Square and Mexico City Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/96d2e0d8-000e-41ec-8640-eb890d5f4ef6/20221014_141540.jpg Mexico We could go in the cathedral but due to construction major portions of it were closed to viewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e8dbded3-d2f3-4ae6-8553-b4597f26b289/20221014_142654.jpg Mexico Mexico City Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/67e3717e-d85b-47e5-b510-456243d97b9c/20221014_145618.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ad86323c-3c29-4313-b672-b0fc36f43d22/20221015_121744.jpg Mexico At the botanical gardens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/11496606-92be-44a0-8af6-8679cc80b79e/20221015_122833.jpg Mexico Botanical Gardens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a504452d-8607-412d-985d-0c3a7fa5a784/20221015_154608.jpg Mexico Inside the Natural History Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c9519ab0-3453-4acc-97aa-455dc61c623b/20221016_141932.jpg Mexico Craneos sculptures on display for the Day of the Dead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2da10e70-5d54-4d98-b1fb-10c31608ce41/20221016_142943.jpg Mexico This park had 100 of the painted skulls on display for the Day of the Dead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/15d4da5c-6631-4ada-9949-377afa00cac4/20221016_142954.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/45140d1d-e808-4539-9cfa-772025df0c03/IMG-20221017-WA0001.jpg Mexico Neil and Paxon at the Teotihuacan Temple of the Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2e2c1d60-7efe-4f74-93b2-5e6728e6ffe6/IMG-20221017-WA0003.jpg Mexico And all of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/61e67017-97ce-452e-bb1f-6c1d76e625e7/CDMX+to+Bacalar.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3fc16777-aef9-43f2-8b7a-d2704bdf29b1/20221017_143957.jpg Mexico I saw this Day of the Dead decoration in a doorway near our hotel in Mexico City on my way to pick up our laundry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d83438e5-fe9b-41f6-8502-5fa9924f0b49/20221018_115548.jpg Mexico Tenochtitlan ruins in Mexico City with the Metropolitan Cathedral in the background https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5c886200-e4f7-4086-967d-b011f8845541/20221018_121617.jpg Mexico Inside the Tenochtitlan Museum - Mexico City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ca78cced-0189-4a1c-a175-d47a62af9d51/20221020_141231.jpg Mexico Hotel parking at San Andres Tuxtla. The hotel was in the center of the old part of town and the only way in and out of underground parking was via the car elevator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c1921e36-0ea8-4d23-a679-8b23a4e20346/20221020_170651.jpg Mexico San Andres Tuxtla Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/06370c0f-fc6b-4841-b622-8cbac83f4814/20221022_122358.jpg Mexico This reminded me of similar things I saw on my trip to India. Flower petals arranged nicely and floating in water at the entrance to our hotel dining room at Palenque. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b3877950-3820-47de-b02e-9b42590509bd/20221022_131251.jpg Mexico On the hike in to Palenque https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/58879125-cdc0-49c6-a6c0-7e69da6cec87/20221022_131302.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a45b43d1-1f12-4c6e-b6ef-b797dbb1e774/20221022_131338.jpg Mexico There are two entrances to Palenque. The main entrance that lets you directly into the main part of the ruins and then the "archeological" entrance that we took. It's a hike through the jungle before entering the ruins proper. This is the stream under suspension bridge in the prior pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c939e0cc-56b1-4630-bfd2-46fd318632f0/20221022_132325.jpg Mexico Palenque ruins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9f53a8c7-84e6-444c-b499-7e79294d8a4e/20221022_132558.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fd0f647b-6cd5-495d-97a6-e967c7ec3997/20221022_132804.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/deb23219-7585-4f5d-bdf7-de77441394ae/20221022_134136.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/61df6f4f-5b3b-44e4-86a7-0bf0a1326c81/20221022_134601.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d34fc704-0722-4f19-b7fb-efa7c2ae22cd/20221022_134918.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6679c6fc-eb19-4af7-947b-429dd2f29829/20221023_121930.jpg Mexico Our first view of the Gulf of Mexico at the start of the bicycle race. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/074a8300-1a94-4335-a3c6-de909939959a/20221023_122515.jpg Mexico While riding to Chichen Itza we stumbled on the start of a bicycle race https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/917bbbc3-def4-4dae-abd7-e30af0cdeedd/20221023_145315.jpg Mexico We chose to stay in a little town named Seybaplya before going into Chichen Itza. Unfortunately it is a little town and it was Sunday. Almost nothing was open, but we found this one little outdoor empanada place open. So we sat here and enjoyed the view and had our dinner before heading back to the hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d45cf4a8-0df1-4bcb-a263-d910946c14eb/20221024_141430.jpg Mexico We officially arrived at Chichen Itza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/325ae3b3-84d7-4973-96b0-0a225340fa75/20221024_141750.jpg Mexico The "Ball Court" at Chichen Itza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ebe36639-136c-426c-8c4b-89de08684a7b/20221024_141917.jpg Mexico On the left of this picture near the top of the wall you can see one of the rings that the players were supposed to get the ball through in this game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2b3f3173-e4f3-4f4e-84d6-5a5c9ebf3636/20221024_143731.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/67a94835-68c4-4286-a4a2-6697625af5c0/20221024_143819.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b3d6ea3b-d409-4ae5-9014-1439cea1b99f/20221024_143946.jpg Mexico Chichen Itza main temple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2b74e750-cd02-4f98-be0f-167584e08c9b/20221024_144149.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fdabaccb-d51a-4c61-baed-444ddd2873f7/20221024_145216.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6004413c-c2a8-4b8a-b9d8-bfae8063fd8a/20221024_150502.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0ec2720e-39af-4d82-8b82-8926f80eab6e/20221024_150719.jpg Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6e3e3c23-efc5-420e-990f-80257fdfd3d4/20221024_151001.jpg Mexico The last of the Chichen Itza pictures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/364998bf-533e-4ac5-9a1f-d2323658faa3/20221025_144026.jpg Mexico Neil taking a rest at our hotel in Bacalar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dc389a2e-89c7-4a99-b243-e5b853db380f/20221026_105335.jpg Mexico Cenote Azul in Bacalar. One of the local swimming holes in the area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0f2699d4-f77d-4365-80c4-2c14da10f32c/20221026_120833.jpg Mexico Bacalar Lagoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b3ae549e-e272-479f-a659-795851907a9b/20221026_120843.jpg Mexico Bacalar Lagoon https://www.northrider.me/central-america daily 0.75 2022-12-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f113706a-61b2-4c31-b116-287325617655/Belize+Marker.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/73026ae0-aba7-45b5-882a-a584eff82760/20221027_141353.jpg Central America Our first stop in Belize. We had a nice night here after the boarder crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a631fba8-ffca-4d3c-9aa5-b41e6c213cf8/20221028_115043.jpg Central America The "Inland Blue Hole" on the Hummingbird highway on our ride to Hopkins. Neil and I had been here before and decided we needed to stop for a swim again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d1c2b9cf-ea24-43c2-87e4-ceea9742a1e7/20221028_120358.jpg Central America The Inland Blue Hole is really just a sink hole but it's a nice way to cool off on a hot ride. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c577a5c2-3a1e-47ca-83dc-32bbf903363c/20221028_134229.jpg Central America The rooftop lounge at the Crash Pad motorcycle hostel in Hopkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/25bfdd8c-2abc-40cf-9107-54b13b728dcc/20221029_082226.jpg Central America The Crash Pad cat. he always hangs out under some of the bikes parked at the hostel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f1cd2855-e605-42a1-8b89-fb4c4d5d7531/20221029_133823.jpg Central America Iggy the iguana across the street from our condo in Placencia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8e76a856-b731-49e2-a392-18a58802efde/20221029_172021.jpg Central America Sunset from the dock at Sunset Point Condos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d65a62e5-38e6-4fce-b2b3-1a57a7358627/20221031_055736.jpg Central America Sunrise from the mirador (widows walk) on our building in Placencia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fdf47e95-f330-4bd4-b660-ee3ff07a2a6d/20221031_063424.jpg Central America Looking across the bay toward Independence, Belize from our building at Sunset Poi8nt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6c14269d-6666-47f0-9888-582b262b29ee/20221031_120754.jpg Central America Mayan King Falls https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/eca493cc-c9e6-4e2f-b98e-3a4de1e2a126/20221031_171741.jpg Central America More Placencia sunsets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8488abf9-5815-448e-bf65-603da4f4cd5e/20221031_171804.jpg Central America Sunset Point Sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8f7ec124-b396-4e7f-b6a0-afc37deba378/20221101_055719.jpg Central America And one last sunrise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c2688917-eb42-4dbd-933c-a0fddeea10b3/20221031_181528.jpg Central America Placencia Trick or Treaters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2f2532bd-1854-4981-a959-fac03ad3a362/20221031_183146.jpg Central America More Halloween kids in Placencia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fb87f735-77a1-4ae2-9a97-0e4757379277/20221101_152300.jpg Central America The hurricane coming at Cassia Hills Resort, San Ignacio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ccb378ff-65cc-440c-a0c9-fba7b491c853/20221102_193146.jpg Central America Neil's idea to give some diffused light in our room when the power was out during the hurricane. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/911263ba-a743-4a72-9f01-11b46931c2a1/20221102_193132.jpg Central America It worked pretty well! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1f28c615-b227-4a25-8cd9-89d6d8d4f443/Tikal+to+Antigua.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ed594b7b-83ce-4851-9db7-c85c515ac513/20221104_170532.jpg Central America There were tons of turkeys at the hotel in Tikal. According to John these are Ocellated Turkeys. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e06b86aa-d22e-4479-a572-b1d5126e96bd/20221104_201825.jpg Central America A visitor on the door (inside) to our room at the Tikal Inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ff3e1054-91ec-4ca0-9e45-f76d9333a026/20221105_081915.jpg Central America Coatimundi in the parking lot at Tikal. We saw these guys all over the place in and around the park https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5a02a93d-b66f-44fd-9624-ae8854596ef3/20221105_082856.jpg Central America I just liked the form of this tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/86cc9f07-046b-447a-80f4-5e593bc0aae7/20221105_084407.jpg Central America Inside Tikal Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c560af21-449c-4769-81cb-eb785c0b7b92/20221105_085748.jpg Central America Tikal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/369874db-cdfa-43c4-aced-7868cb046692/20221105_090112.jpg Central America IT's nice to be able to wander around in the ruins here. Not so over run with people that they have had to totally block everything off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3af822cf-2ddd-4f04-b852-122b246298d2/20221105_090150.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a7f0ba57-e64a-4cce-9762-23d0798b3430/20221105_091438.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d6b8cc03-4e13-4271-a99c-77c8e1939f8b/20221105_092632.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fe5592e3-2e65-491b-a7d1-4c91c3ed2184/20221105_093317.jpg Central America Looking out at Temple 4 from the first of the temples we climbed to the top of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/57026d91-7bb9-4ed1-a636-ae8c1e7e373e/20221105_093429.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bae281b5-01ad-4dd6-ac4e-055260cbd9fc/20221105_095126.jpg Central America Looking toward the main plaza from Temple IV. This is similar to the shot you will see at the end of the Star Wars movie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c5c3bcb4-551f-44eb-9af7-9042187a3dde/20221105_095335.jpg Central America Rather than letting you climb the temples themselves like Terrie and I did back in 1990 they have erected these stairs so you can get to the tops without the danger of climbing the pyramids or harming them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ca703596-2e54-4084-8f57-5d691b3f2b5e/20221105_095411.jpg Central America The stairs are still steep though! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cad67709-7420-46e2-bf5a-876a17df902d/20221105_100929.jpg Central America The main plaza from Temple II looking at Temple I. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/af92ddc4-1fdd-4349-afd6-376067258706/20221105_101437.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/62aa42cd-54c4-482f-9027-cf00a1f3db6c/20221105_101511.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/86de6930-2a4b-4ce8-b5b1-8fe4fa144395/20221105_101522.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5d0af31c-84e4-42df-81c6-780efbe00c8a/20221105_101727.jpg Central America Temple I https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fb53d08a-25b9-4093-b743-b4f5204b066b/20221105_122108.jpg Central America I loved all the various animal crossing signs on the road in the park. While I think this looks like a rat in the sing it's actually for a coatimundi crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/22dcf0c9-8a6d-43bc-b20b-0cb4f682b25a/20221105_122649.jpg Central America We never saw any deer, so I'm not entirely sure what this one is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7a93be28-8f4e-43f5-b145-79cccbd10dca/20221105_123614.jpg Central America Turkey crossing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7f476ffc-bcff-4137-a496-c5988becaecf/20221105_124223.jpg Central America Unfortunately we never saw the Puma crossing either. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5482bca9-6be0-4ece-a756-34424b0984b4/20221105_154835.jpg Central America The island city of Flores from our hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b677d4c8-1e76-40fa-b166-c2f2e39bdf59/20221105_180152.jpg Central America The same shot of Flores at night https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5f2f18e1-f176-4051-9f91-6ee06ab4cb11/20221106_122948.jpg Central America Taken at one of my rest stops on the 10 mile unmaintained road in the video. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6f49a5ff-5430-4038-9658-9697f6cd29b7/20221106_122956.jpg Central America This area truly was beautiful https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/be7e7add-fd3b-4107-875d-288b33876a77/20221106_123001.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/47d17485-4c41-4a25-a02e-b3af74a44043/20221106_132946.jpg Central America Another shot to give an idea of what the road was like. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0c57dd75-d139-4bbb-8439-0221255b3735/20221106_132949.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0470384c-d561-4ec5-ae83-9905504102a4/20221106_134643.jpg Central America To be fair, maintaining a good paved road though here would be diffecult. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/42475e6d-fb35-4486-ac7f-7418cf463e26/20221106_135922.jpg Central America Finally on our way down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/07abe487-4ef7-4913-be2a-2ea426f7d7c2/20221107_163203.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cae53f19-1923-424f-ac38-7599e34df88f/20221107_170949.jpg Central America The Volcano Agua from the roof top of Antigua Brewing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1aaed17c-cc8d-4bad-8426-9ab0ff744491/20221108_100015.jpg Central America One of the ubiquitous "chicken busses" I love the Harley Davidson banner on the side of the hood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3aa4e3a3-82c7-485f-9d3e-41e2dff1bc23/20221108_102520.jpg Central America The Antigua arch looking back at Vucan Agua https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d27f0ca8-c031-4aec-88eb-b133b75bd9ad/20221108_102737.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/38812038-9503-4b67-8cb3-3e1f30ebab32/20221108_102848.jpg Central America Not too sure about climbing the scaffolding here but up the guys go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c18e5721-1326-4bd0-81d9-510fa9c1a9b7/20221108_103004.jpg Central America Antigua Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/97493a3d-3e4f-43a4-be2e-9340356ca468/Antigua+to+Granada.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/efc0e767-56d1-456a-9d8d-77250447e638/20221108_163716.jpg Central America Steam coming from Fuego Volcano.. The two peaks to the right make up Acatenango Volcano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1c342590-c646-4622-9f8b-13562e396f11/20221108_165604.jpg Central America Agua Volcano on the left then Fuego and Acatenango. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/596824b4-42bd-4407-9d09-359e8db45c0a/20221108_165611.jpg Central America Agua Volcano from the rooftop of Antigua Brewing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e9ea74e2-e4a0-4d2e-981e-82f5d44bbaea/20221108_170339.jpg Central America Fuego steam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/245fa070-ee90-4a45-bf12-d41920662153/20221109_074832.jpg Central America The most unobstructed view of Agua we had during our time in Antigua. Taken from the courtyard of our hotel there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/35b5aa3d-76b7-40f5-b247-dd0bce30acff/20221110_124450.jpg Central America First view of Lake Atitlan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/80a45e30-75e1-4701-ba64-22c031e8b01f/20221110_124532.jpg Central America Homes along Lake Atitlan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7539425b-ae78-4683-a891-f3e4c0cf68a8/20221110_130134.jpg Central America Santa Caterina Palopo on Lake Atitlan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4d951584-e448-4cb3-9910-5caef2c06129/20221110_132742.jpg Central America The view from our room in San Antonio Palopo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ac2a7774-8983-453d-9267-2f1f585ee4df/20221111_084838.jpg Central America Lake Atitlan as we begin our ride away from the lake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5fc85b19-a1b3-4863-a050-b4bacf852bf1/20221111_084859.jpg Central America A couple of very nice homes along the lake. Hard to get to but in a beautiful setting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2244165d-673f-4ae1-b9b7-ce48020f4626/20221111_084908.jpg Central America A stop along the road. The first 5 miles of this day were on this road with the very steep sections paved. So not too bad at all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/32558245-83cd-49cc-9e3e-540320f25124/20221111_085552.jpg Central America A view of the lake from the rim. Still one of the prettiest places I've ever been https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e655011f-6726-4a44-8916-2da67e68b42a/20221111_085558.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d44da8dd-6689-4cd7-91f5-ce56d999433d/20221111_091852.jpg Central America Looking down on San Lucas Tomalin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b8c46fb1-3e8e-4e16-ac3d-480c0dfdc1bf/20221111_091907.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/85f82b39-20b4-4bde-917f-459ace354091/20221111_164522.jpg Central America Along the Pacific coast on our ride in El Salvador. There are no pullouts on the road to take a good picture save in a restaurant parking lot. They were none too happy here that I only wanted to stop and take a pic and not eat. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/61755ebd-cb88-4c95-8736-aa3f34a4e2a3/20221111_165538.jpg Central America A cold adult beverage at our hotel in Los Cabanos El Salvador https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4fb73011-d113-4f92-814e-b8772dadd316/20221111_170717.jpg Central America Pacific sunset at Los Cabanos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/328c3303-db1b-4222-af2c-a728f20d2559/20221111_172100.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fa11ff00-3eef-4e05-9d97-23e4f9573099/20221111_172809.jpg Central America Looks like we needed a flash for this pic LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e9a13c5d-b938-4bbd-8a35-cf29d5c38aeb/20221112_103953.jpg Central America One last Pacific coast shot in El Salvador https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/22aee5fd-01fb-4677-8e3c-5e4a737e7039/20221113_111151.jpg Central America Exiting El Salvador at immigration https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a7cb6602-b5cc-4efe-8e3e-403cf4d5fba3/20221116_152418.jpg Central America Cacao pods from when we toured the chocolate museum in Granada, Nicaragua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e3d72826-9cac-4504-9603-8aad9cb8b8b0/20221117_101425.jpg Central America Parking at the entrance to Mombacho Volcano outside of Granada, Nicaragua. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7732191f-ace9-49b2-954b-3a4216c5b459/20221117_102227.jpg Central America Our ride up Mombacho Volcano. We thought about walking up. Very glad we didn't! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a546a9db-42ae-4b0e-b1d0-c12987524f28/20221117_111135.jpg Central America Beautiful weather at the bottom of the volcano, but totally socked in the fog at the top. On the plus side we had GREAT cell service. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9156710b-3585-42fe-aa8a-81e98abe4a9e/20221117_111153.jpg Central America Hiking on Mombacho Volcano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2b5adb1e-9376-47fe-8c5e-803bf04a43bf/20221117_111429.jpg Central America The path through the fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/133380ff-991d-499f-89be-5a76b448d7ea/20221117_112032.jpg Central America The Tunnel - Mombacho Volcano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/20cba0aa-3f13-4ad7-9a4a-8ef1401af33b/20221117_112101.jpg Central America So this will go right over the head of some of you, but this reminded me of Aragorn going though the path of the dead in the Lord of the Rings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/307cd3cc-cdb2-4fb5-8413-d94187f24589/20221117_112635.jpg Central America More fun with fog on Mombacho Volcano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/399f6a22-bee7-4984-8ba3-87988b87a712/20221117_113401.jpg Central America This should be looking over Granada and Lake Nicaragua. But there is fog. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7fdb9e96-1b4c-4d9b-a701-8370dbec97b9/20221117_121607.jpg Central America When you come down under the fog it really is pretty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2d334f41-9707-4ee9-a0ea-d1972dea5599/20221117_133448.jpg Central America Granada Cathedral from the balcony of our hotel room.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7fc30592-cf5a-47c1-9c11-6725437e6654/20221117_170620.jpg Central America Walking down to the lake in Granada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d080a31a-150c-4829-83ff-0b69e67ceac8/granada+to+panama+city.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4bca42e7-c3e3-4bdb-a8cd-4a065a730b2a/20221118_113258.jpg Central America At the ferry terminal in San Jorge, Nicaragua before getting on the boat to Ometepe Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9b85e3ad-e233-420b-b77c-7c7aae5063a7/20221118_114713.jpg Central America Lashing the bikes down before the hour ferry ride to Ometepe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a4da6b3c-7d9e-479a-bc08-36f61c0e289d/20221118_120011.jpg Central America Ometepe is an island in Lake Nicaragua that consists of two connected volcanos. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8bd1a2be-6070-4c0f-8dca-a449c2eceb93/20221118_125525.jpg Central America More Ometepe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/54d9ccc0-ad38-4cc4-99dd-632da67d4f5b/20221118_125538.jpg Central America Coming into Moyogalpa, Ometepe Nicaragua https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3206b327-1b1b-4807-b350-6a45788745b0/20221118_142213.jpg Central America Our hotel room on Ometepe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8e6504cf-b877-472b-b153-c659bdd11165/20221119_115131.jpg Central America Finally got a day on Ometepe where the clouds lifted from the top of the bigger volcano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ca4cc55c-149a-4368-9b06-f9b6512e275a/20221119_125016.jpg Central America Ometepe traffic jam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6e27b453-99dd-4419-a3c8-ca527b97b4c5/20221120_111539.jpg Central America Butterfly outside our room in Ometepe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2da66f01-9df2-40ae-8347-763d6591face/20221120_151027.jpg Central America Neil found a friend. Well maybe I should say that the friend found Neil. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/65e15996-8dad-4608-96c1-2b05b8d30e36/20221121_150604.jpg Central America The swimming pool looking out to the Pacific from our house at Rancho Santana, Nicaragua https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bf9ad157-da9a-44a5-906a-186d679fd855/20221121_170601.jpg Central America Sunset from the clubhouse at Rancho Santana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2f260a62-1ce8-433b-8bc9-072620ba8b47/20221121_171206.jpg Central America Rancho Santana sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/34bbab9a-8f88-44c3-a343-8ee3832918af/20221122_112638.jpg Central America We rode the bikes down to this beach at Rancho Santana to go play in the ocean one day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/85b468c3-0882-49a1-8133-8fc9018fd267/20221122_144344.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e7b84136-5624-4c37-a180-5c26b10cf370/20221122_144214.jpg Central America Each day we were at the house these two turkey vulchers would come by and drink from the pool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8ad99edc-5c3a-4295-92f6-9af5b2ddbcf0/20221122_172701.jpg Central America Sunset from the Rancho Santana house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/35ab3186-db81-4e67-9d3e-0dccaf0bf03a/20221122_172719.jpg Central America Another sunset from the house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6ccb363f-f155-4241-95dd-454b6ec0101e/20221123_114830.jpg Central America Rancho Santana beach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bcb0c1b4-39b6-4bec-87fd-c8c97aed4e3e/20221124_091645.jpg Central America Our favorite turkey vulchers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a5976a1e-88c5-4b2f-b41f-37dd4a3f72e2/20221124_163331.jpg Central America The beach from the home of the owner of the house we were staying at near Rancho Santana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f17026a3-8423-41c1-91f1-72ed1d9f9f32/20221124_171750.jpg Central America Sunset from our landlord's house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/75dd64f5-db4c-4a9a-a242-7ff903fe049d/20221125_110939.jpg Central America Border crossing time from Nicaragua into Costa Rica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4174264b-b4ed-4d10-a14c-57ae46a12031/20221125_135128.jpg Central America Getting the bikes disinfected as we cross into Costa Rica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2848ec7c-6145-43af-839b-e7f89d7d6551/20221125_155627.jpg Central America Coming into Liberia Costa Rica. It was raining so hard here we couldn't see so we had to get off the bikes and take refuge under the awning of a bus stop. The other bike is from a guy we ran into at the border and just happened to see already stopped here to get out of the rain too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4f2a4437-aa65-4723-9938-9452187d9bb1/20221126_155235.jpg Central America Tamarindo Costa Rica. Always good to find a brew pub! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5fb68e44-75ef-43cd-8b7b-50ce47b33c16/20221126_161211.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/22019441-040f-4e87-858c-6ce77f08ea20/20221126_162745.jpg Central America And to have a cold one https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/388e8acd-719c-4ab7-8120-32bf0608e917/20221127_074911.jpg Central America While in Tamarindo we took a kayak trip up the river estuary through the mangroves. On the way back we did see one crocodile hanging out on the river bank. Not swimming here! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b2af25a4-dfa9-47f5-a18b-5de6254cd2b0/20221128_135239.jpg Central America After Tamarindo we went down the coast to this beach at Samara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9f2a1da0-b725-448f-a221-4cac508c489e/20221128_135247.jpg Central America Samara beach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/48c116f9-cf6f-40e7-a989-fa067980851a/20221128_174914.jpg Central America Samara sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c7170a71-b507-428c-b12e-2ec39dbb3767/20221128_174930.jpg Central America Another Samara sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bea7b6c2-86b9-46a5-8ae1-3ce8ca42b0cb/20221129_124418.jpg Central America The ferry ride from Playa Naranjo to Puntarenas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a87774a0-5081-4b2b-be04-5a3f1c935147/20221129_133926.jpg Central America Puntarenas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c676da89-6a4c-4291-877b-98d995826a9b/20221130_125211.jpg Central America Our little expedition into the cow pasture on our way to Turrialba. I swear I expected to see Hobbits at anytime here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b8537368-58cc-44b2-a210-cd3326317804/20221130_125214.jpg Central America When we started to figure out that "residential road" could mean most anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f6788ab6-073d-49c1-b376-e982dd1a7bab/20221130_130142.jpg Central America https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bd97db03-9306-45c4-b2ae-669448a59072/20221130_130136.jpg Central America Just under the clouds coming into Turriapba https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2c2de543-f7d7-46c4-81b0-4240c8a2cf16/20221201_094236.jpg Central America The initial damage to Neil's bike after the accident https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/eda46860-51ca-40aa-8dbb-6f022fdc8626/20221202_091702.jpg Central America This is really had to see, but we were not allowed to get any closer, but it is my first glimpse of a sloth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/437e5bad-7b3f-417e-ba69-2f987e3aaafc/20221202_091850.jpg Central America Maybe a better pic of the sloth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fd678a23-e8bb-482a-9ba4-6c55ccb8fa08/20221202_110350.jpg Central America After having taken the entire faring off in order to start piecing things back together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/963628a8-db5b-4a79-93ca-dc1b51299fae/20221202_130315.jpg Central America Franken bike https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f2deed10-5851-41ab-a962-fc5896a7e705/20221202_130322.jpg Central America Nothing that a bit of duct tape, super glue and zip ties can't fix https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cf899753-51ed-4203-b167-8686607420c8/20221205_075720.jpg Central America Our hotel room in Panama City. I assuming they had to put a "no coat hangers here" sign next to the sprinkler head because someone used it to hang clothes. LOL https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1f0fae62-dde6-42d6-b6c1-6a8ef892c791/20221206_124159.jpg Central America The Panama City skyline https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f2682dd0-6a74-4a68-a814-cd792b883754/20221206_133856.jpg Central America Panama City. https://www.northrider.me/sa-pictures daily 0.75 2023-01-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d408c51d-97b8-4034-9558-d2c34151ea42/San+Blas+Cartagena.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/05bf400a-9b04-4d63-a515-cbc449979066/20221212_142937.jpg Colombia Pictures My motorcycle mummy all wrapped and ready for shipment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dd1be665-797a-4d64-96b9-e6079c69c9c5/20221212_142955.jpg Colombia Pictures And Neil's all set to go. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0e22def9-3eaf-4d62-9531-828961878c9d/IMG-20221220-WA0032.jpg Colombia Pictures Linton Bay Marina, Panama. The starting point of our 5 day San Blas Island to Cartagena boat trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/72960153-321a-4ead-b31b-2c7542582d93/20221213_145804.jpg Colombia Pictures The Wild Card. Our home away from home for the trip. As we found out one that cruises at only 4-6 knots. That's about 6 miles an hour. No wonder a 250 mile trip takes 5 days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/319daa61-a3b0-410b-9f0e-35b38e2568ec/20221213_145821.jpg Colombia Pictures Neil and Paxson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a0c35368-0bde-4232-bf77-19d239d5464c/20221213_145907.jpg Colombia Pictures And the three of us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/08cbd666-69a9-48f8-bb3e-633a5706ff20/20221214_100359.jpg Colombia Pictures My sleeping berth. Or as I referred to it, the sweat box. The little black thing at the end is a fan. The only thing to help cool it down when the temps were in the high 80s and humidity in the 80% range too.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/60837f6b-e22a-4bed-8ab6-63506271019d/IMG-20221220-WA0030.jpg Colombia Pictures Manu, our chef doing the grilling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5a7a2d83-06ff-4ccd-9859-d377c5d8f4bb/IMG-20221220-WA0031.jpg Colombia Pictures Our first night out was the barbeque on shore. Lots and lots of meat as well as potatoes and a salad. Good though! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e444604a-6912-4bee-8295-a70d5f1ce6ab/20221214_192341.jpg Colombia Pictures Manu and Lindsey setting the table. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8ef8deb1-52c7-465e-a188-17d94818d6ff/20221214_205522.jpg Colombia Pictures After dinner bon fire on the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/cc4686e9-1556-4b7e-bc3a-ff24e8ba7b81/20221214_205605.jpg Colombia Pictures Lots of dead fallen palm fronds to make our fire out of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/56e50baa-bc52-469b-bec7-e901afe2244a/20221215_112135.jpg Colombia Pictures The next day's lunch that was delivered to the boat by the local Kuna fishermen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a333698a-764d-447f-9c21-3eb662d4897d/20221215_112219.jpg Colombia Pictures Still alive and kicking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e4f9b0e6-be23-4cf5-9e7b-af2d77170136/20221215_112250.jpg Colombia Pictures Manu starting to prepare lunch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5b6f9291-39de-4d9d-a4d1-a789c7cd6edc/IMG-20221220-WA0029.jpg Colombia Pictures And the finished product. It was fantastic! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ea99fb36-4a8a-4d73-8980-2a267f237636/20221216_084636.jpg Colombia Pictures Our last island. Pulling up and getting ready to drop anchor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9edb6591-eb4d-439a-91ad-44a23ba4e99d/IMG-20221219-WA0005.jpg Colombia Pictures A still pic from the drone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9c28198a-789e-4f54-88c3-5790a6e4dd51/IMG-20221220-WA0004.jpg Colombia Pictures San Blas Sunset https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/500b4599-5544-4074-8bdf-552846346e4d/IMG-20221220-WA0005.jpg Colombia Pictures Manu and the deck hand.. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/370ec94e-0601-4bc7-8ace-bb6fc9938da9/IMG-20221220-WA0022.jpg Colombia Pictures The boat had a paddle board along that also helped getting back and forth to the island if you didn't want to swim. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/34688787-451b-45fd-8f4d-11fdf6093643/IMG-20221220-WA0012.jpg Colombia Pictures Sunset during the open ocean crossing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/dd3c1b3a-56f9-4d91-8936-4ac0d3d5efe4/IMG-20221220-WA0025.jpg Colombia Pictures Sunset from shore of our last island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/18da04ba-d574-4bfa-87ee-48d9465277ef/20221218_071025.jpg Colombia Pictures And we reach Colombia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1185d006-7bb2-49fc-81d1-8f7161b00d15/20221218_074319.jpg Colombia Pictures I was not expecting all the high rises in Cartagena. It's a pretty big city, but we stayed entirely in the walled old section of town for our day there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4777bfe6-1318-4455-8481-3159cab36ba5/20221218_185308.jpg Colombia Pictures Street food vendors everywhere near the parks and squares in the old town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/373a9f77-215f-4734-af34-bac4d6096a77/20221218_190213.jpg Colombia Pictures We met up with the boat group here in the Plaza de la Trinidad to get our passports back (the boat company did all our immigration paperwork) and have a final dinner and drinks together. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/238ce89b-43f1-44ee-82a6-0d45bbeb5312/20221218_200635.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/90331b97-9e5a-43c6-aea4-65e4f4f469c7/20221218_204630.jpg Colombia Pictures This part of Cartagena reminded me a lot of the French Quarter in New Orleans. From what we were told it's like this every night in that part of town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6df07796-add5-43cf-9d92-5ae6ff3beb80/20221218_204648.jpg Colombia Pictures Most of our group having a final drink together before we all head off our own directions. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c92e0e91-9b0d-4d36-9d6c-9ca1c4d1b472/20221219_124615.jpg Colombia Pictures One of the gates into the old walled part of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/af3c5403-2976-4966-b520-6586d1d678c0/20221219_125344.jpg Colombia Pictures These are just pictures of the old town I took while wandering around one afternoon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d5fcb6fd-f3c8-4d5a-86b1-031085b84235/20221219_125624.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/51981c4c-a41b-4307-99b5-27dcfe92c35a/20221219_130237.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0fa57781-2916-4dfc-bd98-78833dcf6f27/20221219_130636.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a6f94e64-d488-4b62-a62a-781d73a359e1/20221219_131138.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6f323c81-7c88-4624-8a0d-37601d95b0e9/20221219_144749.jpg Colombia Pictures The end of Cartagena. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bbd141b8-b54f-4153-931c-368833573fdb/Bogota+Loop.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/46f7ed9e-2cc6-4196-a0ee-be8b10f323e4/20221221_131236.jpg Colombia Pictures And the bikes arrive successfully in Bogota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/82c2f4bd-576e-49ea-9eb3-63a2bf359421/20221221_131908.jpg Colombia Pictures Now if we can just get them on the ground without being dropped. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6ffb25b6-9f64-488c-9f21-cbd45268d3a2/20221222_132704.jpg Colombia Pictures Cerro de Monserrate - Bogota, Colombia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d55be0f0-6233-4429-9a12-256a4b2e9ce6/20221222_153428.jpg Colombia Pictures I just found this little row of houses to be interesting in the core of Bogota. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f5255303-e200-4dbc-b7dc-20fbafcaf722/20221222_153643.jpg Colombia Pictures I love little alley streets like this. Full of shops and restaurants/bars. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a45691ef-9ad7-4df1-88a5-d22d6ff42c20/20221222_162105.jpg Colombia Pictures At the bottom of the tram up to Monserrate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b04fab91-c03a-4a49-a021-d599c9be4495/20221222_163736.jpg Colombia Pictures It was a beautiful day for most of the day when we went up to Monserrate. As our luck would have it just as we get to the top the clouds roll in. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f3226c18-1f26-4519-81a8-4e2457b24228/20221222_164335.jpg Colombia Pictures Bogota from Monserrate through the clouds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5b8e5dc8-a1d4-4801-8759-3496dffceb87/20221222_171607.jpg Colombia Pictures Looking down the tram line to Bogota. Monserrate also has a funicular that can be used to get up to the top for those who don't like the heights of a tram. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e69c1c7d-ddb3-434d-a5b8-d5dee5a7c780/20221224_120542.jpg Colombia Pictures Just one of the valleys on the road between Bogota and La Dorada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/860d3740-0672-42a5-9f38-fbb4d7259e90/20221224_125845.jpg Colombia Pictures More of the countryside on the way to La Dorada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/425e86de-3888-4a41-a2eb-f1584c12eb4d/20221224_125959.jpg Colombia Pictures Roadside stop for lunch on our way to Salento. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/a5aaa0bf-f31c-4c07-9da1-983f8640f800/20221224_134956.jpg Colombia Pictures We were constantly seeing signs of landslides in the mountains. Two are visible here. I don't know if the waterfall is the cause or the result of a landslide, but it's pretty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/bd29e6c7-d725-4a05-b8f7-005c641b9c21/20221224_135048.jpg Colombia Pictures More on our way to Salento https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/9936844e-28c7-41f0-9f93-d43f82142f5c/20221224_135134.jpg Colombia Pictures This is the overlook we stopped at for the pictures of both the waterfall and the town in the valley below. (prior two pictures) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/0a91c07f-e09e-482e-9d00-805a80f640e7/20221224_135201.jpg Colombia Pictures Hamming it up! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/386225bc-483a-4037-9893-3834abcd134d/20221224_162347.jpg Colombia Pictures The view of the lake at Guatape from our hotel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b962b824-b23b-4659-8099-1b8d8e4ea144/20221224_162535.jpg Colombia Pictures A very civilized Christmas Eve at Guatape https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f67538c0-ab57-48fe-acb5-24ecca75245b/20221225_114937.jpg Colombia Pictures Christmas day found us climbing "The Rock" There are actually two sets of stairs here. The outer set that is visible here is for going up. The original stairs sit in the crevice behind these and are used for going back down. There is a place to stop for a rest and buy some drinks half way up as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/1410f3dc-809e-4ef7-9931-5dd34eb73220/20221225_115550.jpg Colombia Pictures A closer shot of the stairs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/24f5d748-bcbe-4063-830f-7b73cba7d3f5/20221225_122226.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/55353272-fc28-4080-8775-ea67de68923a/20221225_122018.jpg Colombia Pictures And the view from the top of the lake https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/08436c29-5e8c-4892-9ee9-1f473fc9232f/20221225_122340.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5f622b2e-0b94-4c4e-8596-4c0a853e89a8/20221225_122402.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5d9a2501-a4b1-465b-b698-17394a8230b3/20221225_122440.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/ba2362a8-09eb-4e7b-a08b-3d569e3b7273/20221225_122659.jpg Colombia Pictures Guatape panorama from the top of the rock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/96c62183-a922-4f2a-845b-dffe8e23d7ba/20221225_123019.jpg Colombia Pictures Once you are on the top of the rock you still need to climb 2 more stories to the top of the mirador to reach the highest point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b60be322-56ae-44a3-a93c-f1ea1633be2d/20221225_123442.jpg Colombia Pictures The descent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2d4c60a1-462b-4817-9827-288c951fafef/20221225_124141.jpg Colombia Pictures Heading back to where we started. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/aa750b74-833c-4d73-8722-d43d57492cfc/20221225_150833.jpg Colombia Pictures There are actually two towns on the lake. Guatape and Pinon. The rock is closer to Guatape and they tried to "claim" it by painting the letter G on it. Originally there was going to be the whole name, but Pinon sued before they could finish and won a verdict to stop the painting. What looks like a 1 was just the first part of a capital U that was being painted with they were ordered to stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/35f942c1-2969-4e4f-a7a4-ef4ba6ee1f9d/20221226_143915.jpg Colombia Pictures Coffee country from the coffee farm we did a tour of. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8b8d90d0-bdb7-45f8-ad69-21a33bd3070e/20221227_155727.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/22946bc2-7662-466c-855e-a7a56f2e5482/20221227_154256.jpg Colombia Pictures Salento has brightly colored houses and businesses all though. This was just one residential street I found while walking around. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/93caa661-a717-40b8-8ac0-f409c4d9c68c/20221228_105925.jpg Colombia Pictures The two attractions at Salento are the coffee farms and Corcora National Park. There are no traditional taxis in town. Getting to and from the sights if you don't have your own care are with one of the fleet of these Willys Jeeps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/18edace5-abb6-4146-9633-99692240f20f/20221228_103452.jpg Colombia Pictures Neil and I riding the bumper of our jeep going out to the coffee farm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/fc5ccce1-9311-40af-8f0a-4d5add676cc8/20221228_115904.jpg Colombia Pictures We even got to pick some coffee beans. IT was between harvests so the pickings were slim. We were told that the local pickers could make as much as the equivalent of US $18 per day during harvests picking the beans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e5615cf2-4304-470e-8fff-51a1cb02cc2c/20221228_142217.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4449250f-3a7b-41b8-9467-9342832b707c/20221228_145414.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8ce41fd7-f2cc-4fa2-94fe-c2099be40824/20221228_142159.jpg Colombia Pictures Corcora Park and the world's tallest palm trees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/3c319657-2982-46d2-92e0-0a6b79f5e910/20221228_145657.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/b64b237d-e06a-4d68-aa47-157ac7792bd2/20221228_151234.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/661a7e56-3f28-449a-9ee5-0ca339917162/20221228_151806.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/89456a19-334f-4447-a7ad-ded0b4c12e22/20221228_152126.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/46c76d4a-1cc9-41ba-bfa2-fdc663bc61bf/20221228_152253.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7c71076e-1b8e-4ae7-8cdd-93e85774b0e5/20221229_110553.jpg Colombia Pictures If you need marijuana plant starters just come to one of many shops in Salento where they are just setting out ready for purchase. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/2d2fe4d1-f81d-475f-8603-2ee852e80e7d/20221230_114441.jpg Colombia Pictures The traffic snarl at the accident on our way to Melgar on the next to last riding day of the trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/be0ed678-70be-436a-a9c8-caa43a529133/Amazon+and+Salt+Cathedral.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6fd8fbba-1798-4773-ad2a-5c7e023e9d0a/20230103_124545+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/be64ec6e-f1f4-4304-9356-6849ab273ee5/20230103_124459+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures Paxson on our hike through the Amazon rain forrest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/730de194-939d-475c-8964-4065cebd0c40/20230103_125832+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures Termite colony on at tree trunk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/5ea3e795-b55b-465b-9de6-9d621c6e8391/20230103_125905+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures We could hear planes taking off and landing at Leticia but sure seemed like we were miles from nowhere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4498cce2-5397-4635-b07b-8c8ee2fe0355/20230104_092632+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures Our hotel in Leticia had a family of ducks that would wander around the open air lobby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d553f6e1-b590-4364-ac92-17c52512138d/20230104_112223+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/8b9f15c2-9cc1-4332-bfbc-9af3199dcd13/20230104_111903+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures Walking down to our boat to start the ride up the Amazon River to Monkey Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e45e1086-f595-4759-bb13-87df335a274f/20230104_112125+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures These boats are only used to ferry people from the small channels out to the boats on the main river. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d062192b-32b6-4ab8-9af9-eae54ad0d054/20230104_112550+-+Copy.jpg Colombia Pictures The main channel of the Amazon at Leticia. At this point we are approximately 3,000 miles from the mouth of the river and it's still this wide! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/d354b0f9-68f1-4a9a-aec8-815b29025943/20230104_122501.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/574f0fa4-6905-4b82-b6d5-0a1297f96c0b/20230104_122253.jpg Colombia Pictures The entrance to Monkey Island https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/82446198-4464-41df-b6f8-665d4e0a9ae2/20230104_122700.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/e238be75-814c-4d19-940d-742ed676e3a3/20230104_122738.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/f583d8a0-6547-45eb-b541-3b057349f98a/20230104_122821.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7596ad8e-4596-4aeb-9b11-41ada818d9d2/20230104_123354.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/acfd0446-3b85-4a5d-915d-645ced381cde/20230104_123419.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/752c8a15-a418-46ee-9a3f-99295c53e7df/20230104_123125.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/4aa01749-3346-4ab9-914d-40f08f6ec3c7/20230104_123531.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/07120844-50e7-47ee-8bc9-46e31d4089d6/20230104_142557.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7f612f03-4e96-4e87-8512-3daede2f1d15/20230104_143205.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/c914b7bf-3427-453e-89af-285c1ac812c1/20230104_142853.jpg Colombia Pictures Leticia boat launch area https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/7610f1ff-15be-4508-bef4-252decd3b065/20230104_143622.jpg Colombia Pictures This is the foot bridge across the channel we took the long boat out of. We decided to walk across the island and bridge to get back to town rather than take the boat around on our return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/6b1fed08-bf5f-49c6-ab51-9926cfdcd437/20230107_113209.jpg Colombia Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/14ec53d4-6250-44a4-92d1-3ae23f91db40/20230107_105437.jpg Colombia Pictures The tunnel into the Salt Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61d102dec8fd8f2d31ec578b/79e60ce5-c319-4e56-89f8-cdad3a2a64ce/20230107_105836.jpg Colombia Pictures The entrance to the cathedral is a path representing the "Way of the Cross". 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