Sugar fields

It was a slow start out of Mazamitla becauce of the cold but when we did leave it was wonderful. 30 km of downhill followed by another 20 km of mostly downhill.  That day makes going on this trip worth it; beautiful lush scenery and no pedalling. We stopped at an abandoned restaurant for a snack and fired off the bottle rockets Rigel had bought for 25 pesos, about 2 bucks. I didn't really know what they did so it was a good thrill. One of the ones Uschi lit came right at me! After all they were hommade...
A couple hours later we stopped in a small town for lunch but nothing was really open. We tried to order several things but were told they didn't have it so we settled on what they did have at this one cafe: microwave chicken wings, chicken nuggets, the thinnest hamburger and fries. All was a little disappointing.

We went through town after town along the gorgeous valley which made it a little tricky to find camping but we managed to come across an ungated farm road through fields of sugar cane, so we called that home for the night. We set up our tents on a fairly unused road, right in the middle with the sugar cane rising 4 feet above our heads. It felt like we were in a maze!