At dawn we had our bikes packed up and left the hotel and were surprised that even though it was very early on a Saturday there was already a lot of traffic. �As we traveled north, we were able to enjoy the sunrise on our left and by the time the sun was up we ere already on the outskirts of the city.
The travel to the border was done on Highway 85 where we had to pay tolls a number of times but we made good time. The amount of trucks on the road is amazing as this is main corridor for this type of traffic between this very industrial area in Mexico and the United States. We had to be quite careful as our motorcycles as big as they are compared to other motorcycles are no match for these 18 wheelers.
We had decided to cross the the Mexico-US border at Colombia bridge which turned out to be a great idea as there was little traffic and we made good time. The first process was to export the bikes from Mexico, which would release our $400 deposit per bike back to our accounts and then we had to get through immigration in the United States. All went very smoothly and we were riding north already in US soil before 12pm.
Paula and I needed to only do another 160 miles (260 kms) to get to San Antonio; TX where we would spend the night and Paula would get a flight back to Dallas, TX in the morning and I would need to do another 500 miles to get to the Big Bend National Park on the South-West corner of Texas.
Bo, Dave, Colin and Craig had another 450 miles (720 kms) to go as they wanted to get home by Saturday night.
We arrived safely in San Antonio, TX in about two hours and still had time to go to the River Walk where we had a late lunch/early dinner and by the time we got back to the hotel we started getting the messages that everybody had arrived safely at home.
I really enjoyed our trip where the main highlights for me was our first dinner in Los Compadres in Saltillo, MX, riding the Ruta 20, the beautiful city of Guanajuato, MX, riding in the Sierra Gorda, seeing the rain forest and Las Pozas and go back in time and experience the unique town of Real de Catorce, MX.
Make Life A Ride !
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