Anatomy of a Biking Day

4:58 Alarm goes off 

4:59am Wottttttt am I....doing with...my life 

5:00 Oh yeah!! We get to ride bikes today! 

5:05 Hope system will be able to wake up enough to use toilet. Hope hunger will come. 

5:07 BOTH hunger & toilet. NOW. 

5:32 First breakfast: beans from a bag and garlic and tortillas in hotel room.

5:45 Set out on dark cool roads. Glory. 

7:31 Second breakfast: mini bananas 

8:20 Third breakfast: amaranth bars

9:21 Twenty-five miles down

9:23 Pass flowering tree full of parakeets

9:36 Butt "awareness" sets in. Ow. 

10:10 First lunch: that leftover bag of refried beans extruded onto chips. Best thing we've ever eaten. 

10:31 Now it is Officially Oppressively Hot 

10:40 Zoning out and cruising. 

10:41 Whoa! That's a roll of electrical tape on the roadside. Curve a circle and pick it up. 

10:45 Sun and a hill. What the heck is a hill? Are we there yet?

10:47 Cloud, downhill. I could do this forever! 

11:17 Flogged by sun. Large ancient church: major shade break needed. 

11:28 Cruising and day dreaming about Anthropic Principle. 45 miles down.

12:10 Arrival at our destination town. Heat, sunlight. Find shade. Consult google maps for hotel plan. 

12:31 Hotel room shower deliciousness, snacking. Marveling at beds and towels and not being in the sun.  Wash some clothes in sink. 

2:12 Venture out, squinting, looking for food. Why is everything closed? 

2:34 Oppressive heat. Oh right, it's siesta. Pad back to hotel. Flop on delicious beds, journal.

2:35 Chop garlic bwith pocket knives for tomorrow's bag o' beans breakfast. Did they specify Garlic or Non-Garlic rooms here? 

2:41 Snacking on carrots and peanut butter. 

2:51 Oops. Too much peanut butter. Damn. Will I ever be hungry again? 

3:20 Hungry again. Thank you, Emergency Backup Cookies. 

4:14 Head across street for terrible light beer because it's actually 5pm 

5:14 Finally cool enough to stroll around town. Duck into 3 different tiendas to source breakfast fixings (another bag of refried beans, an avocado for 20 cents) and road snacks (peanuts, a mango) 

6:01 Loud birds flock into trees in the town square to roost for the night. Sit on park benches, like everyone (yup, everyone) else is doing  

6:56 Darkness comes to rest. Street food vendors roll their little three-wheeled carts into the park and set up. Children chase each other happily. 

7:11 Eat an elote, a corn on a stick spread with mayo, chile, and lime. Best thing I ever ate. 

7:14 Eat tacos from street vendor, sit on red plastic chairs. Best thing I ever ate.

8:01 Evening stroll. People watching. How many kissing couples on benches can you count? 

8:34 Hotel bed flop again, journaling. 

8:50 Can we legitimize sleeping yet? 

8:51 Interneting. Hotel plan for tomorrow night and mileage planning. 

9:40 Lights out. Listen to neighbor's loud dinner party. 

9:41 Over and out. (weeeee tomorrow we get to do this again!)