PowerCycle

02/05 I almost wish I could take a mulligan on today. When I left Uruapan there were two choices as far as roads, Mex-14 and Mex-14D. I like the wide shoulders on the toll roads (14D) but there’s never anywhere to stop and eat. Mex-14 it was. That’s when the fun started. The free roads are never straight and flat like the toll roads so I wasn’t surprised when I started climbing. I was surprised when this went on for 20 miles. It was all good though.

The views were nice back down into the valleys but none of the pictures really turned out. The only real excitement happened when I ran into a huge traffic jam in the middle of nowhere. Turns out a delivery truck had run off the road. It took 3 tow trucks to pull it back out because of the angle it was at. I was hoping the police would let me ride by but no luck. Had to stand in the sun for half an hour.

Patzcuaro is pretty interesting. It sits along the very large Lake Patzcuaro. The entire town has a very traditional look to it. The houses are made of adobe and/or wood and the roofs are tiled. The streets are mostly cobblestone. The UN even named it one of the 100 Historic World Treasure Cities. I did a little reading and would have skipped the fish I ate had I known that up until 2007 the towns along the lake used to dump their sewage directly into it. Maybe it came from somewhere else.

GPX Track

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