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KTM Ramona hit my bike first thing in the morning, some hamfisted specialist had done things not to be done.
I was really hot when I walked up and down main street trying to find a shop that would sell me a new camera/phone/./. but no way they would sell a phone without it being tied up to some service provider, you can buy them mail order but not off the shelf , 9/11?
A bit of service and off I went and it worked like a dream for a couple of hours, up to Mount Palomar, and then it started again so i sped down the mountain and back to ramona as fast as I dared which was quite fast for me.
I decided to stay up in a place, some old mining town called Julien, about as big as a fly turd on a normal map but a change from Ramona, it was very quiet so I slept well anyway.
So I got a new date in the morning where it was found out that the ham fisted had gone deeper into my bike's brain than they had thought before. That wanker cost me 1500 dollars.
And i
had to wait another day, in Ramona, better than Pahrump by a long shot but still..
Finally new parts and the bike runs like it should, I can't see why people fiddle when they don't know what they're doing.
Plastic doesn't hurty as much as cash, so I filled up the tanks, yes it's got two petrol tanks.
Tecate next, the home town, of a beer that's alright.
I spent the whole afternoon loĆ³king for a phone, unlocked, untied and whatnot. Took afair walkabout to get it, hot and thirsty so I buy a Sol which I think is beer,
In a way it is beer but with tomato juice and some juice of mashed clams, few times in my life I've had anything that disgusting in my mouth.
Nobobody has ever spit out anything faster than I did this vile concoction YEACH!!!!
Next day was a long hot drive down to Puerto Banasco a little seaside place close to Arizona as the crow flies.
Hotel OK until 5 am when some neigbour starts playing the Mex hit parade at full volume.
Nothing much to it, had a mega dinner due to a misunderstanding, 3 main courses,
Got an offer
from a very ugly hooker, about my age, who was cruising around in a taxi.
Next day, a shortie through some lovely flat desert with long stretches of lovely staight road.
Bahia de Kino has a long lovely beach and a restaurant with good guacamole.
Ny only neighbour was the sea.
The next morning I wke up tome strange sound, it takes awhile to figure out what the racket is, the hotel owner has some local carpenter sawing bits of wood and nailing them together, this at 7 am on a saturday.
I flee to San carlos another short day, nothing to write home about, the bike gets a well deserved wash.
I go to a ladie's hairdresser and knock on the door and is let in, 5 women look at me , what does this bloke want?
Haircut and a shave please, short back and sides and the top as well.
The pudgy hair dresser smile at me and says that one person walked in and another one out and that for 50 pesos, about 4 dollars and change.
Dinner and bed, oh yes I had a couple of washed out Margaritas as well.
I found all the curves
that were missing on the desert rodas, they've stuck them on the road up to the Sierra Madre, enough corves to make you smile but too many donkies and horses and cows to keep your speed down.
I don't particularly want to hit a cow head on, or anything for that matter.
A long day later I came to Basesaich or something to that effect, stopped att the first motel and crashed there, no food but the friendly Mexicans next door invited me to a couple of beers, free beers again.
The next morning I went to see the famous water fall, it's probably very nice when it has rained but not at the end of the dy season, what a waste of time.
Had a nice break fast a chat with some miners, there are a couple of gold and silver mines up there, think Humprey Bogart and the Treasure of Sierra Madre.
They earn 500 pesos a day= 45 US working 14 hrs, and I spend minimum double that doing nothing.
It's nice to be born on the bright side, money ways at least.
Off to Creel.
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