Day 2 continued
After the mechanics finally fixed Milton's bike (for the day) it was time to go exploring. But, first, we needed gas. Where the heck is the Pemex? It took a bit of exploring before we finally located it. Once we were all tanked up, off we went in search of some dirt.
And dirt we found.
JT and I had spent a lot of time looking at various maps before this trip (JT more-so than me). We were reasonably confident that most of the roads we planned to ride during this trip were actually there because not only were they on at least one of our maps but we could see them on Google Earth.
However, there were a few roads that were on Google Earth, sort of, but weren't on our maps. The first dirt road out of Tula was one of those we weren't sure about. We hoped it went through but knew it very well might dead-end. There was only one way to find out - go and ride it. That's what we were here to do.
We located the dirt road and headed south through the mountains. Wow, what a great road it turned out to be. Great views and wonderful riding.
Several miles down the road, at an intersection, we decided to take a short break, have a drink of water, check the maps, and say hello to the young man hanging out at the intersection. He was patiently waiting for any vehicle to pass by so he could catch a ride to town. There doesn't seem to be much of traffic on this road - I don't recall passing any vehicles - so I don't know how long he ultimately had to wait.
Smoke 'em if you've got 'em. (That's what they used to say at break time when I was in the Army back in the 80s.) I didn't smoke so I just hung out and shot the breeze. Which is exactly what is going on here.