En México otra vez

Yep. We are back in Mexico again.

This I my second attempt at posting a blog on this trip. I spent an hour writing an entry yesterday while waiting in the LAX airport for the last leg of our flight to Los Cabos but the Blogpress app crashed when I tried to save the entry. :-(

We are now in La Paz, Baja Califonia Sur (BCS).

When we arrived in Cabo it was hot... About 36C. We caught a ride to the storage compound with a car rental company van for whatever we wanted to tip the driver and retrieved the motorcycle with no problem. The battery was a little weak and the fuel in the lines had evaporated (or whatever). The bike didn't want to start on the first few tries but caught just as the battery was about to die. Thank goodness!

We stayed in Cabo San Lucas last night and rode north through Todos Santos to La Paz today. We had a great breakfast at the Hotel Califonia in Todos Santos then rode to the ferry terminal in Pichilinque ( 20 K past La Paz).

Our vehicle permit for mainland Mexico had expired and we wanted to deal with the expired permit and get a new one. The gals in the office were very helpful but their hands were tied, so to speak, by the computerized system. They suggested that if the registration was changed to Linda Hide, there would be no problem issuing another permit. We thought about this idea for a while and decided that a forgery would only complicate an already delicate stuation. We were told that the only other remendy would be to ride back to the USA border to deal with the expired permit.

So... we have a nice hotel room overlooking the quiet La Paz Bay and we are relaxing with a couple of cervezas. Tomorrow we will head north to Loreto and then north to Ensenada or Tijuana. We were told that we could resolve the situation in either of these places. Once we get the permit issue resolved we plan to head south again to Sayulita. Our route is yet to be determined.

Regardless of the setback it is nice to be here again.

Time for a bite to eat...

Hasta luego...

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Fernie, BC, Canada
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