Canyon Carving and motorcycle bliss

Cuernavaca to Oaxaca (Wah-hawk-ah) Tuesday Oct 29  435km.
Roads in the state/province of Puebla were freshly paved and traffic was light.

The road followed the edge of the valley. Some decent views.

Stopped for lunch and a guy said it was 6 hrs to Oaxaca.  We did it in about 3.  Sometimes it is so much fun not to take the toll roads but you never know when you'll be held up for hours on end or get lost for hours..
Pulled into town in the rain and set out to find a bank that would accept our cards.  We got lucky with the second try.  Found a cheap hotel and then stumbled across a Chinese buffet.  It was nice to have something different.

 Wednesday October 30 Oaxaca to Tapachula 676km
Up early but it still took awhile to get packed and to find our way out of the city.  Once we were on the highway we stopped to oil our chains for the day.  A pair of BMWs 650's passed us and the circled back to make sure we were ok.  The two guys were from Germany doing a similar trip to ours but taking 11 months to do so.   We chatted for a bit then headed off together.  We stopped for gas, hoping to catch back up with them.   Never did see them again.  Hopefully they made it safely!

Well we thought yesterday was a day of unreal riding, today was even better.  A solid 200km of constant twisties.  It took nonstop concentration.

Turn after turn.

After all the twisties we made up some miles on a straight road just off the coast.  There was a extremely windy section, all the trees were growing sideways.  

We were stopped at a military checkpoint but managed to get through without any trouble.  No espanol.

Tomorrow we are going to take a day off before crossing into Guatemala.