Bacanora, Not just a Drink

Well we have been stuggling. Up mountains, through the sun, extreme amounts of gaseous discomfort, and well down mountains (the roads are so torn up going down even becomes difficult because we must avoid potholes)just to name a few. We have decided it will be best for our bodies and to actually make it somewhere into southern Mexico before 2011 to travel federal highways instead of the backroads. Sadly this means we will forgo some of the easy going kindness of rural Mexico like we found in Bacanora.

Bacanora, a town of about 400 and the name of a popular Sonoran drink made from the Maguey plant (or Agave), was a beautiful stop where we met a nice family. Arturo, Sulema, Angela, and Brian found us a nice place to sleep and for two nights we rested on cots in the Ayuntamiento. We enjoyed plenty of good meals and conversation while resting for 2 days in Bacanora. We even learned some of the art of creating this drink from a local Brewer Julian. Ahhhh fresh homemade Bacanora!

It is becoming hard to decided how much to ride versus stopping and meeting people. On one hand we want to ride south, but one of our main goals is also to learn about the culture and language here. It is a hard balance. (Isn´t our life tough?)

Here is a common question we have. What do we eat? Usually our day starts out with us rolling out of the sleeping bag at about 7:00 grunting ¨where is the bread, I am hungary.¨
BREAKFAST: We eat usually oatmeal or some sort of hot cereal with powdered milk and brown sugar. Some more bread and jam a banana or two and a few tortillas.

FIRST SNACK: After maybe an hour we stop and eat more Bimbo bread(our fav!!) with jam or plain and some cookies. ( we eat at least one bag of cookies a day)

LUNCH: Tuna or PB and J sandwich. Often both. Supplemented by tortillas with jam or quemada. An apple and orange, more cookies, more slices of bread. One more cookie before we leave

SNACK: Cookies, tortillas, bread

DINNER: Rice, vegetables, fruit, cookies, most anything we haven´t eaten yet in our bags.

Conclusion...we are riding to eat! Wherever we end up, we are trying new food. We eat at least a loaf of bread and a pack of tortillas a day. We try not to be greedy. Second conclusion, digestion system overloads and the tent smells most nights.

Fussy computer :( No pics or video this time, but next time...prepare to have your mind blown!!!