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May 26th 2009 by DrScotch, La route 66 en moto
Desert Mexicain
Millions of wild cactus as tall as 30 ft on a backdrop of mountains as high as the Rockies!
Un resto super le midi dans le milieu du desert. Brunch pour la 1ere fois. On a skippe le lunch et on ne s'en porte que mieux! Les bikes, ca fait pas faire beaucoup d'exercice... On s'est fait brasser un peu sur une partie de la route; l'asphalte etait maganne a cause du gel sans doute...
On a traverse 4 barrages militaires qui controlent les envois possibles de drogue vers les USA. C'est du serieux! Blindes avec heavy duty mitraillette sur le dessus. Ca ralenti le traffic direction nord, pas du tout direction sud...
We think of you all!
On pense a vous tous!
You understand we are doing this trip on your behalf right?
Vous comprenez qu'on fait cette expedition en votre nom n'est-ce-pas?
Kilometers (really) of hot houses!
We do use Mexican labour in Canada for our crops but not as much as Mexico does...
"El Sacrificio" resto
Un minuscule resto familial in the middle of the desert! Excellent brunch prepared by the mom & her daughter. No parlar engles here!
Change of time
Au beau milieu de la peninsule, latitude 28, l'heure change. Back an hour in Guerrero Negro, the minute we cross "paralelo 28".
Water hole of the day!
Andre a deniche ce "petit bar typique". Il a perdu sa job de "denicheur de petit bar typique"...
Mexican desert
Dressed like we did 5,000 kms ago. Cold (50F) in the morning, the Baja warms up to about 75F at mid-day. On a du remettre le cuir: c'est "fret" en "kiss" le desert le matin!
Cactus... again!
All shapes & sizes! Des cactus de toutes les formes, petits, moyens, grands et XXXL...
Tecate stands for cold beer!
Tecate est une marque de biere tres en promo au Mexique. Plus facile a prononcer que "Coors Light"...
Barrage militaire
The army is checking drug trafficking closely on the #1. Bob took this picture from far... We crossed 4 check points so far.
Part of trip: La route 66 en moto
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May 26th 2009 - Adam W: Thank you
Greetings - I always understood that you were doing this trip for me, and I thank you for taking such a heavy burden off my hands. That's one less thing I will have to do. LOL.
May 26th 2009 - Jenna:
the weather looks nice... have you crossed any bad weather? What kinds of drug searches did the military do? Did they go thorugh all of your stuff? Did they take all of your booze? thatd be a shame! Did you bring enough scotch? How are the baby bottles doing? gone yet?
May 26th 2009 - hélène desrochers: la Paz
Salut Francois
J'imagine le coucher de soleil et la chaleur quand vous serez a la Paz. Tu pourrais le photographié? Chanceux!!!
Bonne route et soyez prudent!!
Hélène
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