what a day in Durango

In Durango I have to find and buy some gear to my bike. I knew it will be difficult, because I don´t know where the bike shop is and probably they will not have the gear I need because is not common here in Mexico.

In one bike shop where they of course didn´t have the gear I needed I met a really nice boy called Gonzalo (the boy on white t-shirt on left side). He showed me another bike shop where they had the gear I needed (2 of 28 inches tires). The owner/the boss in black t-shirt gave me 11 spokes and the work for free. Thanks a lot! What a nice people!!

After Gonzalo invited me to his home for dinner. His mother Betty made corn soup as a starter, fish taco as a main meal and cake to desert. It was so good. And Betty gave me also homemade peanut butter and 7 good/nice marzipan sweets. Mucho grazie!!!!!!!

Really nice to meet all of you.

I will remember Durango as a very good place because of you.

hombres trabajando

hombres trabajando - men at work

biking from sea level to 2800 meters is heavy work.

mountains

because the pictures in the video are so bad quality (I dont know why), I will put some of the pictures here so you can see how fantastic the landscape is. click on the picture to get it bigger. highest point we biked was around 2800 meters. and we biked from the sea level from the ferry station and up. heavy but really nice trip. we biked through rainforest and saw different animals and insects.

Closer

me

biking, drinking, modeling and fixing

swiss army knife

I met these two people from Switzerland on the ferry to the mainland to Mexico. They are really cool and nice people and they can everything like a swiss army knife.

My plan was to bike along the coast of Mexico, but because of the heat, the humidity and you see more of the real Mexico I chose to join Stephan and Juri inland and to the mountains. The biking has been heavy, but the climate is much much better and the nature has been fantastic.

cuatro amigos

Cuatro amigos (chilisauce).

And cuatro amigos and uno senorita (coca cola zero can) trying to get into the photo on the right hand side.

(The waiter said the chilisauce number 2 from left is the strongest in the world.)