Police encounter

5:30am - we are sitting up straight in our bed. Penetrating church bells and fireworks woke us up and didn't stop making noise for the next 45min. I really don't know when the Mexicans sleep. When we went to bed at about 11pm last night, music and party were still on, so it took us forever to get to sleep... What a start in a day of 100km of cycling with an elevation gain of over 1600m 😥
Luckily, the route today was a really small road with beautiful mountain views and no traffic at all. It would have finished with a great 1200m descent as well. Unfortunately, the road was in bad condition with uncountable potholes, so the downhill was not smooth at all.
Just before Tepalcatepec, we had an interesting encounter with the police. They stopped us at a regular check point (usually, we never had to stop). Then they asked some questions about where we came from today, where we were going, what our plan for the next day is and so on. I tried to answer their questions in my broken Spanish. Obviously, none of them was a cyclist. Even today's route sounded to them way too long to make it by bike. Let alone a destination like Argentina. So they asked more and more policemen to come over and look at us weirdos. I asked them if there was a problem, but they only replied that everything was fine, they just want to talk with interesting people - and ended up taking photos of us to remember 😂Read more