RR singlespeeds in the jungle

Very nice! Thanks for sharing.

I was thinking you shunk the rugrats but now I see them.
So when are you getting you backward trike? You can go
double tracking.

I MTB 2004

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or the dive reports, watch your mail.

Dive reports (with dive logs) would be cool.

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ah, back to reality now.

Reality sucks!

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I was thinking you shunk the rugrats but
now I see them. So when are you getting
you backward trike? You can go double
tracking.

I MTB 2004

what rugrats? I left them at home for this trip!!!

p.

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ah, back to reality now.

That's always the hard part of trips like those. My one
jungle ride involved slimy wet roots and tedious tricks of
balance (and lots of falling due to my inability to
consistently manage those tricks of balance), so I'm glad
you didn't have to go through that!

Sounds like you had a great time, thanks for sharing
stories & pics.

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address, at least)

Penny S said:

note: for those of you (you know who you are) who want the
full two week Yucatan Peninsula/Cozumel TR or the
dive reports, watch your mail.

The Mexicans certainly have a handle on bikes as
transportation!! They are everywhere, and helmetless
riders every one!! The most incredible parade of bikes
I've ever seen.

It feels so great to be on a bike... and single speed at
that ( new territory for me) Flying through the jungle is
cool and breezy. Each little grouping has a special
parking area just for bikes. We turn off on some single
track that goes ??

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(view from the porch of our palapa, thatched house)

Awesome view. Dang, it almost looks like a movie set or
something... the water and sand color are great... man, I
really miss my yearly surf trips down to Baja.

Nice RR and pix, but what about the diving pix ??? I know
you took some, didn't you?
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Penny S said:

note: for those of you (you know who you are) who want the
full two week Yucatan Peninsula/Cozumel TR or the
dive reports, watch your mail.

<MUCHO SNIP>

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Something tells me you want find shimano here.

Looks really, really cool! I was in Cancum about 13 years
ago and that wa the last time I was in Mexico. I think it's
time for another trip!

Thanks for sharing.

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Ride-A-Lot said:

Penny S said:

note: for those of you (you know who you are) who want
the full two week Yucatan Peninsula/Cozumel TR or
the dive reports, watch your mail.

<MUCHO SNIP>

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Something tells me you want find shimano here.

Looks really, really cool! I was in Cancum about 13 years
ago and that wa the last time I was in Mexico. I think
it's time for another trip!

Thanks for sharing.

misc OT notes for you all.

Cancun has a Wal-mart, ferrchrissakes. Our total time in
Cancun was picking up a rental car within in an hour of
arriving, and getting off the bus two hours before
leaving. If you want to visit the real Mexico, I recommend
you do the same

For you divers, diveparadise.comreefs.htmOpen ↗ has
better pics than I could ever take. We did 14 dives each in
7 days, including a night dive. Although we did have a
supposedly decent UW camera, as new divers our focus was
maintaining bouancy not taking pictures. We did shoot off
three rolls, what a waste of film. Maybe I'll get a case for
my digital next time, who knows... UW photography is not
just point and shoot.

They surf on the East side of Cozumel, I do have some good
snapshots. We went and watched one afternoon.

Penny

Penny S said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

Penny S said:

note: for those of you (you know who you are) who want
the full two week Yucatan Peninsula/Cozumel TR or
the dive reports, watch your mail.

<MUCHO SNIP>

Quoted message said:

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Something tells me you want find shimano here.

Looks really, really cool! I was in Cancum about 13 years
ago and that wa the last time I was in Mexico. I think
it's time for another trip!

Thanks for sharing.

misc OT notes for you all.

Cancun has a Wal-mart, ferrchrissakes. Our total time in
Cancun was picking up a rental car within in an hour of
arriving, and getting off the bus two hours before
leaving. If you want to visit the real Mexico, I recommend
you do the same

For you divers, diveparadise.comreefs.htmOpen ↗ has
better pics than I could ever take. We did 14 dives each
in 7 days, including a night dive. Although we did have a
supposedly decent UW camera, as new divers our focus was
maintaining bouancy not taking pictures. We did shoot off
three rolls, what a waste of film. Maybe I'll get a case
for my digital next time, who knows... UW photography is
not just point and shoot.

They surf on the East side of Cozumel, I do have some good
snapshots. We went and watched one afternoon.

Penny

Looked great. I want to go back to somewhere like that!
Maybe when the boy is juat a little older...

Matt

Penny S said:

You, bet, but please let me ride it!! So the driver
walked, and I rode our luggage to the bus station.
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ah, back to reality now.

Penny

Good pic - you looked natural!

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MattB said:

Penny S said:

Ride-A-Lot said:

Penny S wrote:

>note: for those of you (you know who you are) who want
> the full two week Yucatan Peninsula/Cozumel TR or
> the dive reports, watch your mail.

<MUCHO SNIP>

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Something tells me you want find shimano here.

Looks really, really cool! I was in Cancum about 13 years
ago and that wa the last time I was in Mexico. I think
it's time for another trip!

Thanks for sharing.

misc OT notes for you all.

Cancun has a Wal-mart, ferrchrissakes. Our total time in
Cancun was picking up a rental car within in an hour of
arriving, and getting off the bus two hours before
leaving. If you want to visit the real Mexico, I recommend
you do the same

For you divers, diveparadise.comreefs.htmOpen ↗ has
better pics than I could ever take. We did 14 dives each
in 7 days, including a night dive. Although we did have a
supposedly decent UW camera, as new divers our focus was
maintaining bouancy not taking pictures. We did shoot off
three rolls, what a waste of film. Maybe I'll get a case
for my digital next time, who knows... UW photography is
not just point and shoot.

They surf on the East side of Cozumel, I do have some good
snapshots. We went and watched one afternoon.

Penny

Looked great. I want to go back to somewhere like that!
Maybe when the boy is juat a little older...

Matt

We went to Hawaii when Patrick was 3 and Maddy was 3 mo.
Worked fine. Diving wasn't on the agenda though.

Shawn

Looks like a great vacation! Thanks for sharing.

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Cancun has a Wal-mart, ferrchrissakes. Our total time in
Cancun was

picking

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up a rental car within in an hour of arriving, and getting
off the bus two hours before leaving. If you want to visit
the real Mexico, I recommend

you

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do the same

For you divers, diveparadise.comreefs.htmOpen ↗ has
better pics than I could ever take. We did 14 dives each
in 7 days, including a night dive. Although we did have a
supposedly decent UW camera, as new divers our focus was
maintaining bouancy not taking pictures. We did shoot off
three rolls,

what

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a waste of film. Maybe I'll get a case for my digital
next time, who knows... UW photography is not just point
and shoot.

They surf on the East side of Cozumel, I do have some good
snapshots. We went and watched one afternoon.

Penny

My wife and I love Mexico but like you Cancun is an airport
for us. We really dig Isla Mujeres!! Drew

Monique Y. Mudama said:

Looks like a great vacation! Thanks for sharing.

heh heh, that was only just a bit of it. Among various
OT things we did was a lot of beach time at a place in
Tulum with power only 4 hours a day; boat tour of the
Sian Kaan world heritage biosphere reserve, and 7 days
of scuba diving.

p.

Penny S said:

We were not looking forward to lugging three heavy gear
bags that distance. ( note to self, get wheeled bags for
next trip) Lo and behold, to no surprise, there's a
triciclo taxi, " carry your luggage? 35 pesos..." You,
bet, but please let me ride it!! So the driver walked, and
I rode our luggage to the bus station.
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This is the best part of the story. 🙂

gabrielle

Penny S said:

note: for those of you (you know who you are) who want the
full two week Yucatan Peninsula/Cozumel TR or the
dive reports, watch your mail.

The Mexicans certainly have a handle on bikes as
transportation!! They are everywhere, and helmetless riders
every one!! The most incredible parade of bikes I've ever
seen. I'm fascinated by triciclos: only $2250 pesos ( $195
USD) and I think they'd be great for groceries, kids and
carpool. They use them for everything from transporting the
family, taxi service, hauling construction material ,
taking grandma out for a spin or ???? The cure for
America's SUV problem....www.bicimoto.com.mx.

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Bikes are a very interesting part of the culture. It's
interesting that many folks commute by bike to whatever
type of jobs they have, and even out on what appear to be
undeveloped areas you'll find someone along a road slowly
pedaling along. Most of the highways in the more developed
areas we visited have separate bike paths. Behind most
buildings you see them parked en masse from the workers. At
our hotel in Valladolid, every morning you'd see bikes
getting wheeled across the courtyard as folks arrive for
work. Let's not even talk about the traffic, bike and car,
and the drivers!

here's a fun one we saw, kid seat with tri-bars...
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We went to one Maya AZ (archaeological zone) Coba` which is
about 40 kms in from the coast, way south of Cancun.

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This is a really interesting site in that it's only
partially excavated, and very spread out. It gets quite a
few visitors, but not nearly to the degree of it's famous
neighbor to the NW, Chitzen Itza. It's the kind of place
where you'd expect Indiana Jones to come swinging out on a
vine at any time. We'd heard that you could rent bikes
there, and much to our pleasure, you could... pick a bike,
any bike, for 25 pesos ($2.50)

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The site is rather spread out: there are several
groupings, but there are several kms apart, so bike of
course is the choice!! The roads linking the groupings are
ancient Maya limestone paved roads, called Sacbe, that
link building groups and AZ all over the Yucatan. So these
sacbe are perfect bike paths. They are wide and
**somewhat** flat, terrain altered by 1300 years of jungle
growing through and over it.

It feels so great to be on a bike... and single speed at
that ( new territory for me) Flying through the jungle is
cool and breezy. Each little grouping has a special parking
area just for bikes. We turn off on some single track that
goes ?? I wonder about where is it going...no maps of
course, and it gets narrowed and rockier with low limestone
outcrops here and there. The plan was that it would connect
up with the sacbe we were on that went back to some
engraved monoliths, but no.... my comfort zone got the best
of me and I insisted we turn around. Bike is definitely the
way to travel here. The minute you stop it's hot humid and
oppressive.. No choice tho as close to the structures is no
bike, and not even JD could tackle the pyramid on a bike!

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The main castillo is amazing. They've only uncovered one
side of it, and barely reconstructed it enough to be able
to climb up it.It's the tallest pyramid in this part of
the Yucatan. The other three sides are still covered in
trees, roots and vines. We hike to the top, take in the
view, recover from the climb and then back down. We'd
parked are bikes right across from where the bike taxi
guys hang out while their customers are on the pyramid.
These guys are strong... pedaling family groups that may
be Granny, or Mom and toddlers, or Cruise Ship Passengers
types around the site.

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On the return journey thought the site, Craig cuts off on
another little trail, but I tell ya, I am NOT feeling
adventurous. He meets up with me, turns out his little
trail went by the site of a little (crocodile infested)
lake, and he was a little worried about snakes dropping on
his head.

We park our bikes at the little "lot", with big smiles on
our face. What a blast, really a lot of fun. We sure had
big grins on our faces: the trip had gotten off to a rough
start with some CC lock out problems ( I had the wrong PIN,
what a pain!!) but with a few hours of bike FUN, all
remaining stress and anxiety were blown away. It was the
perfect set up for the beach phase of our trip. I saw the
little bike repair shop on the way out.
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The rest of the trip was devoted to scuba diving, eating,
sleeping, etc, and hanging on the beach.
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from the porch of our palapa, thatched house)

Didn't have dinner here, but the sign was good:
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On the last day home, I got my wish. After disembarking
from the ferry at Playa Del Carmen, we had for blocks to go
to the bus station, to get to the Cancun airport. We were
not looking forward to lugging three heavy gear bags that
distance. ( note to self, get wheeled bags for next trip)
Lo and behold, to no surprise, there's a triciclo taxi, "
carry your luggage? 35 pesos..." You, bet, but please let
me ride it!! So the driver walked, and I rode our luggage
to the bus station.
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ah, back to reality now.

Penny

Wow! Great Stuff!

Peace, Bill The mind serves properly as a window glass
rather than as a reflector, that is, the mind should give an
immediate view instead of an interpretation of the world.
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