Day 5 – Aimless
The dreaded HWY 200. We exited it as quickly as possible.
We headed west from Tomatlan with visions of white sand beaches. We hit the coast Hwy and headed south to La Cumbre – no beach in sight – confirming our naivete.
Our first dead end.
Virtually every town in Mexico has a town square and church (usually in the same area) and we´ve programmed ourselves to head for this area to find food and lodging. We´ve seen a diverse array of churches from the ornate cathedral sized in Talpa, to the basic cinderblock walled, doorless structure in Pina Suarez. Reguardless of church size and decor, these people covet their religion and the churches are easy to find. A non-outdoor-cart cooked meal, on the other hand seems to be difficult to come by in the remote towns. We found out from another impeccable English speaker who´s husband got deported from the US after getting arrested, that most Mexicans in the remote small towns we have seen can not afford a sit down dinner so these tiny towns do not harbor many restaurants. And in the ones we do find open, someone will often scoot out the door to go and purchase the ingredients to make our meal (tortillas, cheese, eggs, beans). ´Wé´ve been going ´sin carne´and thus far no one has gotten ill (knock on cement).
Another... end of the road.
We ride several hours today but had no interest in deciding on a destination – until we had to. Once we found out there was no beach in site we wandered aimlessly into a couple dead ends, through a swamp, banana, papaya, and coconut crops and ended up in Pina Suarez in a bed filled with fleas. Back at you…