Detour

We started early again to beat the heat. It's the best time for cycling, as we are still fresh, there's less traffic on the road and beautiful light - like when we cycled through the fog again this morning. Our plan for the day was to leave the highway after about 40km, but when we saw the dirt road we were going to take (that looked paved on Google maps) and the military checkpoint (looking for drug and human trafficking), we decided to stay on the relatively smoothly paved highway. However, after 125km, we still decided to take a detour and explore a bit more of this area of Mexico instead of just following one main road. It ended up not being the smartest idea: 30km of straight headwinds, similar landscape (green and flat), and a dead town where we found a cheap, but pretty run-down hotel. Luckily, we still found a fruteria to buy some vegetables for a pasta salad we ate in our hotel room.
In the end, we crossed 3 states today: left in Chiapas (monkey land with monkey bridges - unfortunately, we didn't see any monkeys though), a short stretch in Tabasco and sleeping in Campeche. Hope the road gets more interesting tomorrow, so the detour was worth it!Read more