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of Mexican food, tortillas, tacos, 100 types of chili sauce and the specialty, Huachinango, red snapper and enjoy the camping and cabaña experience, then you can do Mexico on the cheap. But the option of five-star luxury is also there for you.
I will concentrate on the state that I have fallen in love with, Oaxaca. Mexico is approximately 2,000,000 square kilometres and the 14th largest country in the world, so a lot of riding. I cannot do justice to the whole country in one article.
As soon as you leave the asphalt roads of Oaxaca, you are introduced to an endless golden network of dirt tracks that Google maps gave up on, and Google Earth copes with, just. I love this kind of terrain. It reminds me of South Africa or Kenya or parts of Australia. Off the three main
Oaxacan roads you hit the towns, then the small towns, all brightly coloured yellow or blue, then the one donkey town, then no towns, then farms, then signs for farms, then no farms, then no signs and eventually, if you are lucky-no telegraph poles or humans.
Our first introduction to this expansive network of roads and tracks was during Covid and it was a warm welcome with a friendly lie from a local thrown in.
Cathy spotted an interesting road that would avoid the highway and get us from the coast to the Cloud Forest coffee growing region. After winding our way through gentle valleys, we turned a corner and nearly hit a red Chevrolet pick-up truck, on our side of the road, head on, both screeching to a halt and staring into the whites
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