Vamos a volver por el gato

Our first dinner in mexico was street tostadas served on a roadside stand by some grandma, and were — also due to the difficulty involved in eating them — an amazing welcome. We love the food; but we wonder how long it takes before we get sick of tortillas with beans. Certainly not yet.

Despite the many cars really stinking the place up, people are chill towards cyclists and most of all super friendly in general. Even with my broken Spanish (which kinda works, though!) I/we love the openness of los gentes here 🇲🇽🇲🇽.

We had (local) coffee at a coffee shop with a super cute cat, and either for the coffee or for the cat we might try return there after our cycling trip. Then we wanted to go up Monte Albán, some archeological site, but with my amazing planning we ended up going up the _wrong_ Monte albán: Monte albán Chico. Nice view, but not the same.

(Ah, and we had huge cockroaches in our first apartment.)

Today (12 February) after the usual problems with the first day of cycling, we started tracing the old railroad track that once existed between Oaxaca and mexico city: super steep, heavy, rough, hot, but partially very nice. We had planned to stop at a hotel that was listed on bikepacking.com in an village in the middle of nowhere next to the railroad that no longer exists and, despite our doubts on there being anything whatsoever, we found the hotel operational and the town not deserted. So more tacos and beans for us tonight =).

And also more (different) tacos and beans tomorrow for breakfast.Read more