Go Phillip What a great ride report so far. Fantastic pictures. And so glad you could stay with us at the beginning of your trip.
Looking forward to the rest of the ride. Great job so fat. BTW - I love that HD Double Eagle Evo Cargo Springer Chrome Net
Hey Philip, I've been following your trip, and I finally joined the site as a user. Could not think of a clever handle though. Trip sounds great. Sue and I want to join you somethere this winter but I know it is too early to ask about your itinerary in January. ....... K
Ok, this is going to be chopped into really small segments this is the fifth time I've written this, something, either advrider or my computer seem to have become very unstable obligatory hotel room shot, some one suggested I show the price once in a while so this was 300 pesos in a renovated tourist area view from my room of the distillary advertising painted all around the town
there has to be hundreds of shops selling tequila in the town, all the same product and it seems all at the same price the courtyard of the municipal buildings and the mural itself
went on a little museum tour one of the original copper stills apparently it was a toss up between using horses or human labour to turn this to grind the agave the barrels are all burned with the makers symbol, the casks came from and still do come from Kentucky. The prized ones were used before to store liquor, it didn't matter what kind as long as they had been used
some more of the life of the town this guy was proud as punch, you could see it I had to put this one in because I've never heard a garbage truck play classical music before these guys were having the time of their lives aggravating all the other dogs This was one of the back gates to the distillaries agave plant in captivity
All the distillaries use a symbol, the oldest one uses the crow and they have it everywhere, in the front gate inside the back gates a few more distillers signs Next: we see how this stuff is made
Apparently an agave plant takes upwards of twenty years to grow from a seed to a harvestable size but if you remove the babies from the mature plants and plant those you get a full size pinapple (thats what the harvested bulb is called) in 6. All the leaves are removed in the field and the pinapples shipped to the factory where they are put into ovens and steamed after they're cooked they look like this and they're easy to break apart the pieces are actually quite sweet and juicy if you chew on them the pieces are then fed through a shredder and fed into the fermentation tanks
and then into the distillers, the liquid is distilled twice sometimes even three times water is added , it's aged in the casks and viola there you go, instant headache in a bottle everything is done at the factory including making the bottles and hand painting them hope you enjoyed the cooks tour
... doing price checks on fuel in Quebec - $1.64 per litre - howse that compare to your price Phil. Nice digs your at too. And NO I didn't go up to Goose. YK
Definitley a great ride report. Hope those Oakley glasses are still working for you. And thanks for the shameless plug for an armchair adventure rider/artist in Virginia. You're trip is very inspiring. Maybe I'll do it someday. Hope all goes well.
Looks like you took the Cuervo Tour...good tour!...I am leaving La Paz On the Ferry to Mazatlan Tuesday the 4th will be riding through out Mainland Mexico I will be on a Black KLR......May do a RR as well.. enjoying yours at the moment..
GUADALAJARA WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CITY, as you walk down the streets you find one square after another each of these columns represents an important figure in the cities history one beautiful square after another There's sculptures, statues and figures everywhere this is one of my favourites after wandering around all morning it was time to sit down and indulge myself, cervaza in the oxxo stores runs about 11 pesos, this one cost me 24, yikes
it's time to save my feet and ride in style the tour was a couple of hours and after seeing a fancy arch built to celebrate the opening of a new highway there was the theatre of the University of Guadalajara and the art in front