Cycling from Buenaventura to Loreto in Mexico
Continuing my cycling trip across Mexico, today's route took me from Buenaventura to Loreto. Part of my Pan American Bike Tour.
Leaving Buenaventura
(Blog post written December 5th, 2009 during my Alaska to Argentina bicycle tour)
After a couple of cups of coffee, it was time to get going again. Now, everyone that I had spoken too, had said that this next stretch of road to Loreto was flat. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Many rolling hills!
By Omar1976 - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4520072
It probably didn't help that my food bag was stuffed to overflowing, but my legs certainly felt this stretch! Still, its all in a days work, and I reached Loreto 90kms later in the mid afternoon.
I was aiming to stay at the Loreto Shores RV Park, but I never found it. Instead, I stayed at the Rivera Del Mar RV Park, which was not only cheaper, but also had great hot showers and free WiFi.
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Dave is a UK travel writer living in Athens since 2015. With 20 years of firsthand travel experience and over 80,000 km of bicycle touring across six continents, he's been blogging at Dave's Travel Pages since 2005. Every guide is based on places he's actually been.
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Cool
If my joints hold up, I hope to try
Good luck