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Ruina-a-Ruina Run

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Sunday, February 27, 2011, In : Mexico 
I have begun typing away and documenting my Mayan ruin-to-ruin run as I horseshoe around the Yucatan Peninsula plotting sweet dual-sport trails and moto-friendly posadas … although my scribbles aren’t yet up to the grand level of the B-Blogable dribble thus posted. Hence this up-to-speed note is to keep Momma’s heart at a comfy 80 BPM:


San Cristobal bathroom poster reminds me why bathrooms just aren’t as fresh south of the border.



The red star tells us that we are in Zapatista land (an...
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My Flaming Way to San Cristobal

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Friday, February 11, 2011, In : Mexico 
The answer to what actually was “flaming” on my way to San Cristobal de las Casas, a pueblo in the highlands of Chiapas, the southern-most Mexican state bordering Guatemala, is two-fold. My first attempt at climbing to 6360-ft summit came to a sudden backfiring halt when some mysterious moto-monster cut Cart-her’s fuel supply. Now this is after 250-kms of smooth riding, starting in Santo Domingo Tehuantepec, a city just inland from the Pacific coast.


A market in Tehuantepec that we accid...
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Corrupt-apulco

Posted by Brienne Thomson on Sunday, February 6, 2011, In : Mexico 

Before enduring the almost comical Mexican police officer pay-off, the notorious authoritative scandal and current battles of power between the cartels and deceitful diplomats were stories. Mind you, not only from the news, but first-hand, from the mouths of the locals. Por ejemplo, when in Guadalajara, a fellow Hostel de Maria dweller from Juarez, the gun-fire afflicted Tex-Mex boarder town, saw three innocents killed...
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