Today we continued our trip in Mexico 🇲🇽 as we traveled about 600 kms (370 miles) between San Luis Potosí, MX and Puebla, MX.
We left our hotel after having a very hearty breakfast and made our way on the cuota to Mexico City but as we got nearer we veered a bit East so we missed the big capital as we wanted to get in early in Puebla and can never be sure of the traffic conditions in a metropolis that has more than 20 million people. I felt a bit sad as I am a fan of this gigantic city and would have welcomed revisiting even if it was just on a quick pass by.
The road today was more up and down than we have done before and we were able to see some vast valleys.
The condition of the road was not bad as most of it was toll road. The best we encountered actually felt like a soft cushion. There is something to be said about a good laid up tar road.
Our first stop for gas was a quick one and we saw a group of about 10 motorcyclist on their loud Harleys. If loud pipe save lives they surely were saving lots of them. Unfortunately for them the weather had turned very foggy and cold and I could not imagine riding without front windshield protection and in thin leathers. We rode for about one hour on this dense fog and it felt good when the sun broke through it and brought with it its warm rays and better visibility.
For lunch we stopped in the city of Tula, MX and were able to park the motorcycles in a parking garage where we could leave them under the watchful eye of the parking staff and go walk a bit the town and have lunch in the main plaza.
As we move through the different states of Mexico 🇲🇽 we can surely see a difference in the features of the people, types of food, economic spending capability etc.
Lunch was very good and we may have found a good way to eat very well and that is to find a place where you can actually meet the cook and ask them to cook something special for these three amigos that just rode into town. So far we are two out of two in this. Will keep score.
We did arrive to Puebla the earliest we arrived to our destination so far in our trip and found our hotel which is right on top of the Zócalo (main plaza). The windows of Dave’s and my room see out to the plaza.
Parking our bikes was interesting as we had to first let the hotel know we had arrived and then get to the parking place. In order to do this we had to stop the bikes right in the plaza and had to negotiate with a policy officer. She graciously allowed us to stay there while we found out where the parking garage was and then allowed us to do a u-turn against traffic to get us in the right direction. It was wild ...
Anyway, bikes parked and shower taken we went into the plaza and walked around and had another great dinner. Are we this good at picking restaurants or is food just good everywhere in Mexico 🇲🇽 ?
We sat right in the middle of the confusion on a “esplanada” and felt the vibrant life all around us.
Bo needed to do something related to his work but Dave and I felt too energized to go to our rooms so went on an evening bus tour of Puebla where we learned about the history of the city and its heroic place as a town which has participated in a number of critical wars that have defined this country and it is known as 3x heroic city.
We also went to Saint Guadalupe hill where a lot of the iconic buildings and statues to the various Mexican heroes are and from where you can see laying below the well lit city.
It is as if they built it so its heroes can watch everyday what they fought for and generations can come and pay tribute for being alive and free.
I loved it !
We arrived back at the Zócalo and Dave went to the hotel but I still wanted more so I walked into the church to see its magnificence and they were actually having a service so I joined. I am not religious in that way or have a specific religious affiliation but I only enjoy being in a crowd that is sharing their devotion with their God. For in those moments people forget about their differences and their self interests and look upon the divine as an higher power and thus become humble and more human.
Energized by this experience it was time to walk among the thousands of people that mingled with their families and loved ones and just watch the beauty of humanity.
I love to ride a motorcycle, its pleasures are undeniable, on it I feel like a man with super powers and who does not love to have those. But for me the most beautiful part of traveling around the world is meeting and seeing people of other cultures. See perfect strangers that I will never meet again and in these moments that we share the same space and time, feel deep inside something that connects me to them. How very strange and very beautiful.
Make Life a Ride !
Man playing Mexican music on trumpet in Tula, MX
Lunch in Tula, MX
Video of lunch in Tula, MX
Our arrival in Puebla, MX
Ready for dinner in Puebla
Caricature in Puebla
Facebook post for the day
Click HERE for all the photos and videos of this Day
We left our hotel after having a very hearty breakfast and made our way on the cuota to Mexico City but as we got nearer we veered a bit East so we missed the big capital as we wanted to get in early in Puebla and can never be sure of the traffic conditions in a metropolis that has more than 20 million people. I felt a bit sad as I am a fan of this gigantic city and would have welcomed revisiting even if it was just on a quick pass by.
The road today was more up and down than we have done before and we were able to see some vast valleys.
The condition of the road was not bad as most of it was toll road. The best we encountered actually felt like a soft cushion. There is something to be said about a good laid up tar road.
Our first stop for gas was a quick one and we saw a group of about 10 motorcyclist on their loud Harleys. If loud pipe save lives they surely were saving lots of them. Unfortunately for them the weather had turned very foggy and cold and I could not imagine riding without front windshield protection and in thin leathers. We rode for about one hour on this dense fog and it felt good when the sun broke through it and brought with it its warm rays and better visibility.
For lunch we stopped in the city of Tula, MX and were able to park the motorcycles in a parking garage where we could leave them under the watchful eye of the parking staff and go walk a bit the town and have lunch in the main plaza.
As we move through the different states of Mexico 🇲🇽 we can surely see a difference in the features of the people, types of food, economic spending capability etc.
Lunch was very good and we may have found a good way to eat very well and that is to find a place where you can actually meet the cook and ask them to cook something special for these three amigos that just rode into town. So far we are two out of two in this. Will keep score.
We did arrive to Puebla the earliest we arrived to our destination so far in our trip and found our hotel which is right on top of the Zócalo (main plaza). The windows of Dave’s and my room see out to the plaza.
Parking our bikes was interesting as we had to first let the hotel know we had arrived and then get to the parking place. In order to do this we had to stop the bikes right in the plaza and had to negotiate with a policy officer. She graciously allowed us to stay there while we found out where the parking garage was and then allowed us to do a u-turn against traffic to get us in the right direction. It was wild ...
Anyway, bikes parked and shower taken we went into the plaza and walked around and had another great dinner. Are we this good at picking restaurants or is food just good everywhere in Mexico 🇲🇽 ?
We sat right in the middle of the confusion on a “esplanada” and felt the vibrant life all around us.
Bo needed to do something related to his work but Dave and I felt too energized to go to our rooms so went on an evening bus tour of Puebla where we learned about the history of the city and its heroic place as a town which has participated in a number of critical wars that have defined this country and it is known as 3x heroic city.
We also went to Saint Guadalupe hill where a lot of the iconic buildings and statues to the various Mexican heroes are and from where you can see laying below the well lit city.
It is as if they built it so its heroes can watch everyday what they fought for and generations can come and pay tribute for being alive and free.
I loved it !
We arrived back at the Zócalo and Dave went to the hotel but I still wanted more so I walked into the church to see its magnificence and they were actually having a service so I joined. I am not religious in that way or have a specific religious affiliation but I only enjoy being in a crowd that is sharing their devotion with their God. For in those moments people forget about their differences and their self interests and look upon the divine as an higher power and thus become humble and more human.
Energized by this experience it was time to walk among the thousands of people that mingled with their families and loved ones and just watch the beauty of humanity.
I love to ride a motorcycle, its pleasures are undeniable, on it I feel like a man with super powers and who does not love to have those. But for me the most beautiful part of traveling around the world is meeting and seeing people of other cultures. See perfect strangers that I will never meet again and in these moments that we share the same space and time, feel deep inside something that connects me to them. How very strange and very beautiful.
Make Life a Ride !
Man playing Mexican music on trumpet in Tula, MX
Lunch in Tula, MX
Video of lunch in Tula, MX
Our arrival in Puebla, MX
Ready for dinner in Puebla
Facebook post for the day
Click HERE for all the photos and videos of this Day
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