For those who were wondering, a prudent estimation of the average driving speed on the Mex 200 through michoacan and guerrero is 490 mi per 15 hours. This estimation will more or less include traffic in Acapulco, encountering freeways which abruptly dead end and road construction. Military stops too. At any rate we made it from neixpa to puerto Escondido. On road construction. The MO here seems to be that if it doesn't need to be repaired it at least needs to co...

Settling in here at la ticla. 40 pesos per night to camp, with lights showers and toilets... Just about perfect. Waves too, everyday. With the exception of a few Australians who have passed through it has been only Gerod and myself and the three Israelis, who apparently rival the australians and Canadians in terms of worldly travel. The three we have here spent the last three years in the Israeli army, one of them was in some real s*** in Lebanon, their impressio...

Escaped Guadalajara after eating way too much of that gordibuena, which is basically a grilled gordita with incredible cheese and incredible steak on top. Gordibuena is the perfect description actually. Their other specialty was tacos which were called gringas or... White girls. Shoved off to the coast early stayed in a pretty nice hotel in cuyutlan. Hotel Morelos. $20 room and two meals. The chef was pretty much the gay guy from mad men, and the waiter/front ...

In mazatlan. Going to Guadalajara. More info later

Ok in Guadalajara now... In A very good hostel. This town is huge, 5 M people, but very cool. Probably sticking around for a day or so. Meeting a friend who is actually going to medical school here. Went up to la Paz to get the ferry booked for what I thought would be about a week out trip.,.nope same day(Sunday) boarding in one hour. So we took it. Met a fisherman on the boat and discussed the relative safety of mainland Mexico. Es tranquilo en el dia. No dri...