02/23 Today was perfect. Great weather, nice roads and beautiful scenery. I’m fighting off a saddle sore so I kept the miles down a little. Lowering the seat back down helped but now I’ll have to watch my knees because they get sore when the seat is too low. It’s not easy.

When I arrived in Cuautla is was about 3pm so I found a motel and took a taxi over to the Walmart. I was hoping they’d have a better selection of cameras. They did but the one I wanted wasn’t there. There was an Office Depot next door but they didn’t have very many cameras. I need a Best Buy but I don’t think there’ll be one until Oaxaca, if there’s even one there.

Across the street there’s a restaurant called California Buffet so I headed over for dinner. For US $10 you get the dinner/salad/dessert buffet and all the beer (Corona) you can handle. What a deal.

I decided to stick to my original plans and skip dropping down to Acapulco. It’s a lot warmer now and once I get past Oaxaca I’ll be in lower elevations anyway.

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02/19 Boy is it getting chilly up here. Broke 9000 feet this afternoon. The air temperature is about 55 F but the wind was strong and much colder. If the sun wasn’t out for most of the day it would have been rough. I’m going to be hitting a road in a few days that dips back down to the Pacific coast at Acapulco. I could stay along the coast for at least a couple hundred miles before I’d have to climb back up into the mountains. That’s pretty tempting right about now because it would be a lot warmer.

The roads weren’t bad but traffic was heavier than I thought it would be on rural roads. There was also a surprising amount of garbage for an area that actually looks really nice. Off in the distance I could see snow on top of one of the mountains.

Found a cheap motel in town that has hot water and cable TV (US $8.50). After getting cleaned up I went out looking for some food. The first thing that struck me was just how many internet cafes there are in this town. It’s not a big place either. It was big enough for me to get something fixed that’s been driving me crazy for months though. The sole on my right hiking shoe was coming off so I was pretty happy to walk right by a shoe repair shop. The guy did an awesome job on the repair and he only charged me US $0.38! I gave him more since I would have felt guilty about only paying that much.

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