Night update

Just came back from the pool and it felt soooo refreshing!! It is quite hot here – we’ve been told that it’s not quite normal – a heat wave came in today we were told.

La Paz is quite nice and apparently it was running against Cabo San
Luca to be THE tourist spot in Baja… Cabo won 🙂

Ran into a couple who is riding this really beautiful motorcycle with a side car. They usually ride a BMW GS 1200 – they’ve put 100,000 miles on it since 2005!! But they would miss their dog so much that they decided to start riding this other motorcycle so that could take
the dog – and yes, the dog rides the side car and his wife rides behind him! Forgot to take a picture of them and the dog…

We then had dinner at a nice restaurant with a good view of the city… El Patron…
Funny thing happened – at least at the time it was – Marc ordered some regular bottled water – agua natural – and I said that I wanted a sparkling one – con gas. When the waiter came back he brought me a mixed fruit drink – I asked him what it was – CONGA!!!

Tomorrow hopefully we will have a little time to relax at a beach we saw on the way to the ferry but first we’re going to take care of the paper work and tickets. Then around 1pm we’ll go to the ferry which leaves at 4pm to arrive in Mazatlan at 6am of the next day 🙁 We might 
finally use our camping gear! Hehehehe…

Day 19 – Loreto to La Paz

Short riding day but quite uncomfortable because of the heat.
As expected the ferry ride to mainland Mexico was not as smooth as we
would want it to be.
We rushed from Loreto to La Paz to see if we could get the ferry to
Mazatlan today at 4pm but the ferry was not running.
We found another company that does that route but when we went to do
the import of the bikes, the offices to do that had closed at 1pm – so
our only option was to stay in La Paz tonight and go tomorrow.
The catch is that the company we're doing it tomorrow has a cargo ship
meaning there are no sleeping quarters, just chairs and it takes 16 to
18 hours to cross. It will leave tomorrow at 4pm and get to Mazatlan
around 6am.
To compensate all that we found a GREAT hotel here in La Paz – by far
the best hotel so far and the cheapest!

Quick post

Thanks for all the comments – here are some replies 🙂

– Marc and I thought of getting intercoms to talk while riding but
thought we were carrying enough equipment already and we rather listen
to music 🙂

– Going to document a little less of the road and a bit more of the
activities – even though 80% of the time is on the road 🙂

Today we're going to La Paz and go through some crazy burocracy to
cross to mainland Mexico. Baja is kind of a free zone so now we have
to do the temporary import of the bikes and try to get the ferry on
time – if they are running on time or at all 🙂

Day 18 – Catavina to Loreto Photos

Woke up really early today for some reason… intense dreams… so went out to take some pictures of Catavina… tested out the Nikon D90’s video capturing capabilities – in DH mode only about 5 seconds of recording. Could be that the memory card I am using is not fast enough for more. I then switched to 640×480 and then I got more time. The full quality of the video is quite amazing..

From Motorcycle NY to SP

Day 18 – Catavina to Loreto

So we have internet again – the ride from Catavina to Loreto was a
long and very hot one. We did around 410 miles today. Amazing riding
full with desert, twisties, beautiful ocean views…
Almost hit a dog on the way! Check out the video!!
Now in a very nice hotel in front of the beach trying to figure out our next move – we were going to get the ferry in La Paz to Mazatlan but it seems like the service has been canceled until further notice so we will have to get another ferry to Topolobampo. Will add a couple of days to the trip… Mazatlan is further south.
Oh well – all part of the adventure 🙂