Greetings friends --
It's Sunday morning and I'm somewhere a bit west of Houston. I have added to and updated my travel photos. Call me biased, but I think that the captions tell the story more than I can with just the written word. You can check them out at http://www.fototime.com/inv/310309400F90334
I entered Mexico at the Brownsville/Matamoros Port of Entry with the initial expectation of riding south a bit and then quickly heading to the Pacific Coast because my riding companion needed to meet up with other folks in Mazatlan. However, when Tom realized how slow the going was going to be in Mexico we changed plans and he went directly towards the west while I decided to explore a bit more along the Gulf Coast.
My stops for the nights were in C. Victoria, and then four nights in the general vicinity of Tampico. Upon returning to the north I spent one night in the boondocks perhaps 70 miles south of Monterrey (those are the shots of the no-tell-motel) and then two nights in beautiful Monterrey, Nuevo Leon. My final night was spent in the border town of Nuevo Laredo, and then I crossed the border yesterday. You can follow the track of where I have been by going to http://www.star-traxx.com/TripReport.asp?TripID=597865010 . This is more or less real time feed from a satellite tracking device that I am carrying. Ain't technology wonderful!
Mexico is a wonderful nation, with friendly people and a very bright future ahead of it. It is rapidly developing and growing to compete with the new world economy, but as with any nation going through a transformation there are growing pains. The motorcycle riding there offers great entertainment, and the sights, sounds, smells, and textures are all foreign to American senses and that is a good thing because it keeps us thinking about alternatives. We can learn a lot from our partners down south.
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PirateJohn
www.PirateJohn.com
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