Day 16 Teotihuacan to San Miguel de Allende

Breakfast is scheduled for 8AM, but most of are up at 6:30, so a shower, packing and a diddling with a couple minor issues with the bikes gets us to the dining room about 7:30. They have the weekend buffet breakfast, like yesterday, but unlike yesterday, I limit myself to raisin bran, orange juice, fruit and coffee.

We get the bikes out of the convention room and are ready to roll by 8:45.



My WeeSrom, ready to roll



Jim & Tom, ready for the day's activities..

Off again. We retrace quite a bit of road from yesterday, but it's much more friendly in the daylight. From bumpy straight highway onto the toll road, back to the West and finally off on another toll road toward San Miguel de Allende. We have a final bout of 2 lane highway, then enter the town on asphalt to cut stone(flat) and finally cobblestone for a nice steep downhill run for about a mile(invigorating). We reach a point where the road is blocked, and have to turn back around. Up the cobbles, onto the cut stone then asphalt. No problem for Roger, He leads us a bit further past the town then down in directly to the Hotel el Real Quinas.



Some place..

Nice venue for the Super Bowl. A large convention room with feeds
in both Spanish & English



Beautiful lobby with dining area off to the left..





Bikes were parked out front for the night.. No problem.

What a place. Into the rooms(nice), but Roger finds he's lost his fake wallet. Let me explain. We carry most of our cash, good credit cards and passport in a stash wallet, either around our neck or waist. The fake wallet contains a copy of our driver's license, expired credit card(s) and daily pesos. Anyway, Jim thinks he remembers something flying out from under Rogers bike, so they climb back on the bikes to go look.

About the time the game started, they returned with good news, wallet found just after the last toll booth we went through. Roger must have had something a bit more precious in there than the standard throw away wallet contents.

Ken made the observation that this trip seems to have been blessed(so far). When Ken hit a very large rock down in Copper Canyon and seriously bent the steering arm, we were able find a machine shop to repair the bend and Jim had a backyard method for setting the alignment(discovered wile restoring old Jaguars) to get the truck back into perfectly drivable condition. We've been blessed that Don hasn't seriously injured himself, despite multiple attempts, and we hope that string of luck continues. Finally, finding Roger's wallet was a very good thing.. Keep the luck coming please..

When Jim got back from his wallet rescue, he met Javier in the lobby. Explanation: Jim's wife Jo and her sister Lynn are my cousins. Lynn is married to Victor, who is a Mexican national. Victor's sister is Luriliss who is married to Javier. They live in Pachuca and Javier is very active in his local BMW club. Jim and Javier had been communicating to set up a meeting with our group, and possibly ride part of the way with us. Well the ride fell through, but we all met tonight in the hotel for the Superbowl party. Javier's buddies Rubin and Daniel were there along with a few other relatives.

The hotel had a buffet set up and a large banquet room had two feeds of the game going, one in Spanish and another in English. The town has a large American ex-pat. Population. We all had our fill of burgers and chicken nuggets with flagons of Modela to keep the party going. We talked bikes and watched the game. I lasted til the 3^rd quarter and fled the noise to the room to watch in peace and do some journaling.