Puerta Vallarta

(above is San Blas)
Not a lot of progress today. Did some bike maintainance in front of the hotel in Acapoponeta, ate breakfast on the road and met some Mexican bikers headed for the big bash at Mazatlan.
cut over to the coast thro some of the twistiest stuff yet, some serious windy roads thro the mountains which makes for slow going at times since there is a tiny town seemingly every 500 yards complete with topes (large speed bumps) and vibradores (series of 10 -15 smaller bumps spaced over 50 feet or so) to slow you to a crawl at times. There were not one but two accidents in the mountains which really backed traffic up nearly all the way the last 30 miles into Puerta Vallarta. Close to the city we had our first police encounter. Didn't see Jogi behind me, waited and still nothing so turned around to look for him and see him coming towards me. Turns out he was pullled over by a motorcycle cop who claimed that both of us had run a red light.I'm pretty sure this was bogus although not impossible. Anyway, the cop is BS'ing him about his bike, and doesn't the seat get hot?, etc. Tells him he must surrender his license (which he took) and pay a fine at another town. This was repeated several times at which point Jogi decided it was all crap, told the copi he'd had enough and said, "Give me my license back. I don't have time for this (!!!!)" He then, showing considerable chutzpah, proceeded to grab his license from the cop's hand, got on his bike and left!!!! He seemed very nonchalant about it all, but I was flabbergasted. (
below are photos of Puerta Vallarta)


Anyway, into PV, stop for refreshment and then a tortuous, very hot 100 miles down the coast..........still very mountainous, and stopped for the night at a little town called Tomatlan where our bikes were locked in a gigantic metal corral for the night. (I'll post a pic of this later) Hotel Mision San Miguel, spacious room with a balcony, shrimp for dinner. Only 232 miles today so tomorrow will need to be a big push.