Bikepacking Morocco: Chefchaouen to Imilchil
5 weeks ago
Monday, September 28, 2009
Sunday, September 27, 2009
DAY 51 - Going to Cuba
We found out today that Ghost Ranch, where we camped last night, was the location for a couple of movies, City Slickers and parts of Indiana Jones (latest i think?) That's cool. It was also where Georgia O'Keeffe (American artist, famous for provocative flower paintings??) had a home and spent a lot of time painting.
We left earlyish as we had a big day planned, about 100km.
All pavement today so we thought it would be a relatively quick day, wrong! We ended up doing lots of "rollers" and climbed over 1000m. Was nice and warm though and the scenery was quite nice. The few little "towns" we went through were, shall we say, a little run down and a bit depressing. having said that everyone is super friendly and wave constantly when driving past.
We are definitely in a new State now. Not only has the landscape changed but also the faces that we are seeing. It is very Hispanic here with lots of Mexican" looking" people and constant Spanish town and feature names etc. Very Catholic too with little shrines to the Virgin Mary and plenty of Churches.
Tonight we are in Cuba, not the country, but a small town. We got in late and found that they do not have a campground so we are in a cheap motel.
The other day riding into Del Norte we had our minds on Subway, today it was McDonalds!! It wasn't such a surprise today though as we had been told there was one in town and that is what got us craving McD's. There chips really are the best thing at the end of a long hot day!!!
Off into an area without internet access for the next couple of days.
Hope everyone is well? Please post comments as it is always great to hear from people :-)
DISTANCE: 100.1km
AVERAGE: 17.4km
RIDE TIME: 5.55hrs
ASCEND: 1075mtrs
We left earlyish as we had a big day planned, about 100km.
All pavement today so we thought it would be a relatively quick day, wrong! We ended up doing lots of "rollers" and climbed over 1000m. Was nice and warm though and the scenery was quite nice. The few little "towns" we went through were, shall we say, a little run down and a bit depressing. having said that everyone is super friendly and wave constantly when driving past.
We are definitely in a new State now. Not only has the landscape changed but also the faces that we are seeing. It is very Hispanic here with lots of Mexican" looking" people and constant Spanish town and feature names etc. Very Catholic too with little shrines to the Virgin Mary and plenty of Churches.
Tonight we are in Cuba, not the country, but a small town. We got in late and found that they do not have a campground so we are in a cheap motel.
The other day riding into Del Norte we had our minds on Subway, today it was McDonalds!! It wasn't such a surprise today though as we had been told there was one in town and that is what got us craving McD's. There chips really are the best thing at the end of a long hot day!!!
Off into an area without internet access for the next couple of days.
Hope everyone is well? Please post comments as it is always great to hear from people :-)
DISTANCE: 100.1km
AVERAGE: 17.4km
RIDE TIME: 5.55hrs
ASCEND: 1075mtrs
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
