Hola from Mexico

Hola fromMexico,

Hi everyone, well this trip has just become international!!, 3 days ago we crossed the boarder and entered Mexico.

Just a brief recap, we spent several days in Austin staying with Walt a retired airforce pilot, he showed us around Austin and genrally made us welcome, we then headed to San Antonio to see the Alamo where Davy Crockett ( the guy with the coon skin hat - he actually existed) met his end and then we headed to the boarder town of Laredo through probably the hottest part of our trip so far, essentally a desert and the combination of no water , no food and no shelter for 60 km stretches made for hard riding but we did make it and wei ling also coined a new phase of " andy you smell worse than 3 day old texas road kill" it turns out that this not a completment - for some reason the mix of humidity and heat makes the roadkill worse than any i've expereanced before............... you cuold quite literally smell these things from 200 metres.

Anyway we entered mexico and evrything changed really dramaically - no-one spoke english the roads became narrow and the cars/ trucks and buildings all all became old and tattered I really had not expected such a change so quickly but i immedialtey felt at home here, thinking this trip is really going to get interesting.

We are on our way to the city of Monterrey to spend a night or two with Marco a fellow biker we contacted through warmshowers.org and from there will head into the mountains and go to a spanish school to really get good at the language - exciting time ahead

anyway I hope everyone is well. i have never been better - believe me - true happiness is not knowing what day of the week it is and not caring either.

Andy, Andrew and Weiling ( and of course Allant)

oh yeah all those people who emailed back their congratulations about myself and allant should maybe read their emails a bit more carefully and perhaps look at the photos of allant - ( unless you were playing my game back at me - then Bravo well played )