basaseachi to rosario

alp

The alarm rings at 7. The wood stove made the cabana so hot I slept on top of the blanket for the first half of the night. I could pretend to be on the beach knowing full well that its winter outside.

The hotel is called tirolesas and the alpine name definitely jives with the weather. When I wake up its still not too cold inside but there is ice on the motorcycles. Paige is freezing. She is getting sick. We start the coffee and realize the water in the pipe is frozen.

It must have been sub freezing cold for a while last night. We have a hard time starting the fire again since we have no paper so I go to find luis but he's not there.

Fortunately there are lots of pine needles which do the trick to light the fire. we already fired the remaining pages from the printed guide book las night.

Eventually luis comes by and we tell him about the water problem which is turning into a bathroom problem. There is nothing he can do though so we pack up and alex and I decide to check out the basaseachi falls that are 5 minutes away.

But then the f650 doesn't start. The battery is a little low. Might be the temperature, battery going bad? Push starting down a small slope doesn't work either and only lands me away from camp.

Alex goes back to ask luis for jumper cables and comes back with rope to tow instead. That's a little sketchy for me since there is no good way to attach the rope. But luckily a truck with two strong guys in it pulls over and voila! Two people pushing and the bike almost starts but gathers enough juice again to start right up with the starter button.

Back at camp paige heard the battery being low and figured to get ready to go and we get on the road.

First item on the menu is getting gas and then deciding which way to go. The gas man tells us its 1 hour via the dirt road short cut and 3 hours on the windy road with a lot of camiones. We believe him and take a beautiful warm and gorgeous scenery road via mines, something that looks like a 50 people hotel on the middle of nowhere and a cute town named moris that i want to come back to one day and ride horses and dirt bikes.

Instead of 1 it takes us 5 hours. Good information is hard to come by here with us not speaking very good spanish. The man must have misunderstood the question. Up and down several mountain ranges with everchanging landscapes and vegetation.

Paige is really sick now and almost throws up in her helmet. Pobre sita! we feel terrible for her, but we can't stop since we need to make it to the ferry and are just super late.

Shes a real trooper and just pushes on too. When we get to yecora its 4 o'clock. We were told that yecora is not a good city to stay. Luis made hand signs indicating guns and says not to drive there at night since we might get robbed and los gentes son muy violenta. Its too close a los estados unidos still.

He suggested to make sure to get further away from the border at least to rosario. Its still 80 miles and according to the tres amigos the road will turn dismal. But what can we do we know it'll turn dark but we need to get out of yecora.

Turns out the road is great though contrary of what the tres amigos told us. Must have been recently repaved. So we make our way descending down through a surreal landscape that quickly starts to disappear in darkness, paige leading via gps which tells her which way the road is turning next.

When the first dots of lights appear in the otherwise pitch black darkness I am relieved. Driving at night is scary and something you should never do in mexico because of all the free roaming animals. You never know when there is a cow on her nightly outing around the next bend.

We get into rosario and paige makes friends with a couple of mexican women in the batroom of the gas station and they point us to a quaint 70s décor hotel in a side street. The doors are so low I have to duck. after showers we go into town and do taco stand hoppin which fits right with our eating schedule. Breakfast at 7am lunch at 4 double serving of dinner at 7pm. This time its two different carne asadas and grilled onions. So Good.

Two ballenas of pacifico later we get back to the hotel and sleep. Tomorrow is going to be an easy day or so we think, only 300 km on nice roads so well sleep in again. Looks like we are going to make he ferry. Thatll make me sleep well tonight.