Monday, April 25, 2005

Take a Number, Please!

Friends we are in deed back from the land of the Fiesta, crossing the border between Ojinaga CHH and Presidio TX on Thursday April 21st, a full day ahead of plan - but more on that later.
In 15 words or less: We had no problems we couldn't solve, and it was simply AMAZING.
For those more digitally inclined here are the statistics as best I can retrieve from my celluous based data recorder (my fuel/trip notebook), as opposed to the detailed info Mark would have on his digital voice recorder had it not stayed on the whole first night and filled its memory!!
Day /Start/ End /Mileage
16APR /Arlington, TX /Lake Brownwood SP/ 178
17 /Lake Brownwood/Presidio, TX USA/ 442
18 /Presidio, TX/Chuautomec, Chihuahua, MX /266
19 /Chuautomec, CHH/Creel, CHH/ 200
20/ Creel, CHH/Batopilas, CHH/ 111
21 /Batopilas, CHH/Presidio, TX USA/ 465
22/Presidio, TX/ Lake Belton, Belton TX /553
23/ BMW Rally Rides/ 150
24/Belton TX/ Arlington, TX USA/ 161

Total Days - 8
Total mileage (approx) - 2564
Total Lodging costs - 139$ (USD)
Total Gas costs - 138$ (USD)
Total Food costs - 85$
Number of times actually on wrong road - ONCE
Number of times run out of gas - ONCE (each, and BOTH in the USA!)
Number of unfriendly incidents - 2 Once in Chihuahua when a school kid launched an empty (thankfully) soda can from the bus and beaned me on the helmet and once on a backroad through a small village when a (possibly) drunk feinted out in our path.
Number of OOH's and AAAH's along the way - incalculable!

More later as it all settles out (and I figure the best way to present it).
Thanks for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers, I'm sure that helped!

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home