May 27th. It was a hilly, hot ride to Oaxaca going through lots of uninteresting roadside towns. The canyon road was great. Mountains, cactus, beautiful.
We stopped at a mescal factory. A small family operation, non irrigated, organic made by hand and horse. It was interesting to see the whole process and we bought .75lt bottle for 50p/3.50
We arrived starving after hours of nothing on the raod.
Oaxaca is big city with beautiful buildings, a great plaza and huge markets. I was there in 1997 and was in for a big change. Things are more homogenized, fewer small-scale handmade items in the market, and the gorgeous plaza is now unfortunately a tarp market selling generic household items and CD's. So it loses its feel. We still spent 3 nights here and visited some of the surrounding villages. We also had our box frame welded for a few bucks because we noticed in Huehue that two welds had failed. It seemed difficult to find food in Oaxaca that wasn’t really expensive. Our last night we found the northern part of the city that is more upscale with art galleries.
5,605 miles so far.
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