Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Happy Thanksgiving day to all our friends and family!  It's always strange to be abroad for a US-only holiday but we're gonna try to make the best of it and have a feast tonight and give thanks for our loved ones.

I am also thankful that we were able to fix my bike today and we are hitting the road - finally - to head South in the morning.  In a few days we'll be in Oaxaca, where we both enrolled in a week of Spanish classes!

The SPOT tracker satellite thingy was stolen in Mexico City, so our real-time map thing won't update until we get another one.  Unless the long-shot of BMW Puebla having one in stock comes through, we should get another one next week by DHL from Marion's mum, Lynn.  Thanks Lynn!!!

pretty new shock from Holland!

In addition to leaking all it's fluid out, my old shock also destroyed it's bump-stop from bottoming out so often.

Installing the new shock after a hotel worker let us borrow a large ratchet and extension - Gracias Martine!

Here you can see our new appreciation of bike security.  Nothing to see here folks...

The factory that makes Jon's water bottle cradles in Cuernavaca was nice enough to accept our DHL package from Holland.  We got a full tour from the proud owner, Antonio, who also has a big operation building commercial spot welding machines for factories.

Posing with El Jefe, Antonio, with raw metal bottle cradles in the background.