{"id":3383,"date":"2019-03-17T06:56:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T13:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2019-03-17T07:02:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T14:02:02","slug":"guerrero-negro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/03\/17\/guerrero-negro\/","title":{"rendered":"Guerrero Negro!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bump bump. Bump bump.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday was real adventure riding.\u00a0 They say the adventure starts when…well, you know.\u00a0 You’ve heard me say it before. \u00a0 Yesterday answered the mail in that regard.<\/p>\n

It started out well and ended even better. \u00a0 After a great dinner the night before at the Old Mill’s new restaurant, the Eucalipto, it was an early morning start.\u00a0 I wandered around a bit and took the photo above (that bump-bump thing is the theme from Jaws<\/em>) and I grabbed few photos as the sun was rising.<\/p>\n

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Sunrise over San Quintin Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then it was on the road, headed south, to El Rosario.\u00a0 We filled up there, because it was an 80-mile haul to Catavina, and then another 110 miles to the next Pemex.<\/p>\n

The weather was perfect riding weather, and things were looking good as we entered the Valle de los Cirios<\/em>. \u00a0 Then, suddenly:\u00a0 WHAP!\u00a0 I got smacked right in the eye by a bug.\u00a0 Damn, how did that happen?\u00a0 I had the visor down and I was doing everything the way I was supposed to, but somehow that thing found it’s way in. \u00a0 And it was hurting.\u00a0 Ah, it’s all part of the adventure.<\/p>\n

We stopped for a grand lunch at the Desert Inn (or whatever they’re calling it this year) in Catavina, topped off our tanks for the trek south, I took my contact lenses out and put on my glasses, and I briefly wondered what I’d look like wearing a black eye patch.\u00a0 You know, Moshe Dayan style.\u00a0 My eye was taking on a nice maroon hue.<\/p>\n

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Refueling in Catavina.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A mural in the Desert Inn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Uncle Joe enjoying lunch.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The riding was awesome, and the Bullet’s stumbling and missing were pretty much gone.\u00a0 I felt just a hint of it after long decelerations in a couple of places, but Joe thought that was just because the bike runs so lean.\u00a0 We stopped for photos in a couple of spots.\u00a0 It was beautiful and over that 110 mile stretch, we mostly had the road to ourselves.<\/p>\n

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Somewhere south of Catavina. Those wires in the foreground used to be a tire.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kilometer 244. That might make a nice title for something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Bullet beauty shot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An Interceptor photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As we approached that 110-mile away Pemex, the Bullet’s fuel light came on…no kidding, we were within 100 yards of the gas station.\u00a0 Timed it perfectly, I thought.\u00a0 I emptied the spare fuel can I was carrying first, then we filled the Bullet, and then, after buttoning everything up, I pushed the starter button.<\/p>\n

Nothing.\u00a0 Well, a click. \u00a0 Deader then Julius Caesar.\u00a0 Damn.<\/p>\n

And the rest you read about in Joe’s blog below.\u00a0 The little Bullet soldiers on.\u00a0 Now, you might think I’d be a little annoyed about a 3-year-old battery dying, but hey, that’s life.\u00a0 Three years is a good long time for a battery to last in a bike that shakes a bit, and lord knows I’ve had a few battery failures on other adventure rides (on our Western America Adventure ride, the batteries on half the bikes failed before we reached South Dakota). \u00a0 It happens.<\/p>\n

So we’re in Malarimmo’s hotel, it’s early Sunday morning, and I’m headed out to see the whales in another couple of hours. \u00a0 More good times, folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was real adventure riding.\u00a0 They say the adventure starts when…well, you know.\u00a0 You’ve heard me say it before. \u00a0 Yesterday answered the mail in that regard. It started out well and ended even better. \u00a0 After a great dinner the night before at the Old Mill’s new restaurant, the Eucalipto, it was an early … Continue reading “Guerrero Negro!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[235,63,610],"tags":[622],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-baja","category-royal-enfield","tag-guerrero-negro"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3393,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}