PowerCycle

02/25 Taxco is my new favorite city. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. 75,000 people live in houses that sit along narrow cobblestone streets that wind up and around the massive hills. After a fairly long walk around I think there’s only one road that’s actually flat. The streets have no sidewalks either so you have to be a little careful but it’s mostly VW Beetle taxis and vans and they’re used to people. I even saw about a dozen gringos walking around. Silver mining is huge around here and every street has merchants selling bracelets, chains, etc. Towering over the other buildings is the Santa Prisca church. It’s not that old (compared to other things I’ve seen) but it was pretty impressive looking.

The ride up here was long and hot. I think it ended up being about 8 miles of steady climbing. There wasn’t a shoulder but traffic wasn’t too bad and you could hear things coming up behind you so I just moved off the road if I knew it was a big truck.

Said goodbye to Marten and Karin this morning. They are heading up toward Mexico City so I probably won’t see then again unless we run into each other in the Yucatan. We ended up chatting for a couple hours last night and they are both great people. Glad I got to meet them.

I’m going to stay here tomorrow night too so I have time to explore the city some more.

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