What a great view to wake up to. Around
4am, Goofy, the dog we met yesterday (who we fed the rest of our
chicken to since we didnt have a cooler to put it in) started barking
at Lord know what and continued for a good 20 minutes or so, but we
were able to fall back to sleep until about 7:30. Aside from the dog
barking incident, we were really enjoying our stay at Xpu-ha, and we
were really getting back into the camping lifestyle. This week I
planned on staying behind in Mexico while Eric flew back to work in
order to save some money. I needed to decide where I was going to
stay; here camping for 7 days, or check in somewhere in PDC for the
week. I had been tossing around the idea of staying at a language
school/hotel for the past few weeks now, so we got on the bike to go
check out the town and area of the school in PDC before it got too
hot.
I really liked the location of the
school, so now I just needed to decide whether I wanted to be camping
on the beach for 7 days alone. My primary concerns were; heat,
privacy (being alone), rain (there would be no place to put our
luggage if a bad storm came through), electricity for my phone,
computer, etc, and wifi. Even though Jose, the gate guy told us that
there was wifi at this campground, we never saw a connection. I
decided I would spend the rest of the afternoon milling over my
options and break the news to Eric in the morning. So, we got some
street tacos and brought them back to our beach to eat by the water.
While there, we met a kid, about 14, named Jonah who was there with
his grandparents. This would be Jonah's third year in a row at this
campground. He told us stories about the beach and brought us fresh
coconut and juice. Nice kid.
When we pulled in the day before, a
woman named Isobel came to greet us and asked if we were friends with
Simon and Lisa. “No”, Eric said, “but I know of them”. “Well,
they are over there, they've been here for a while”, Isobel said.
Apparently Simon and Lisa are a sponsored couple traveling by BMW
around the world for 11 years now. They are a well known couple in
motorcycle land commonly seen in Touratech catalogs and various other
public media sources. As a backseat passenger on this trip I know far
less about fame in the motorcycle world than Eric does, but we were
both interested in meeting this couple who hold the world record for
longest continuous journey by a team around the world. After a nice
lunch by the beach and a swim, we decided to invite ourselves up to
Simon and Lisa's place for a quick chat. They graciously accepted our
rude self invitation and invited us up to their balcony for a drink
and conversation with them and another couple they had over, Ken and
Carol, who had also been traveling around the world by bike for quite
some time; about 7 years. We chatted for about an hour but mostly
listened to their stories since they had been on the road much longer
than we had. What a great bunch of people with extremely interesting
lifestyles. We were happy to finally run into some other bikers even
though we forced ourselves onto them.
Ken & Carol's bike
Ken, Carol, Lisa & Simon
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