The Americas 2013

It hadn’t occurred to me that crossing into Mexico would feel like such a milestone but because its a country that features so prominently as the neighbour of the USA, I got a real sense like I hadn’t before, of just how far North I have travelled already…approximately 25,000km since the 9th of January making it roughly the halfway mark of the Americas journey!

Days ride..400km.

Belize continued to be beautiful and will definitely be a place that I go back to including the rustic little roadside restaurant I stopped at for breakfast. The border crossing into Mexico was once again “Latin American” in flavour and was a 90 minute and US$475 affair to get through immigration and customs! Thereafter, the ride to Tulum was fast and pleasant because the Mexican roads along this eastern stretch are smooth and wide although unbearably hot.

Little roadside restaurant called Slims where Medina made me eggs from the chickens running around the garden…awesome!

Tourquoise Carribean sea on route to the Mexican border..

I meet Jax in Tulum tomorrow night and we will be spending 3 nights here before heading on into the Yucatan peninsula. This gives me an opportunity to do some bike maintenance and get my riding clothes washed which is a really good thing! With all of the heat that I have been experiencing these last few weeks, when I put on my bike jacket this morning, for the first time I caught a whiff that can only be compared to the bottom of a mineshaft after a 12 hour shift in the middle of summer..perhaps this is why my border crossings have been taking so long!!