Thanks for the comments everyone, it’s nice to get words of encouragement, offers to send parts, etc.

We’re in Puerto Escondido right now, we rolled in late last night and checked into this really nice hotel… Le Petit or something. We didn’t have the strength to look for the hotel Ken and Gary recommended, we were almost dead from partying in Acapulco the night before and riding for about 9 hours.

The ride from Acapulco was really nice with lots of sweeping turns for our motorcyling pleasure. We rode through tons of little town which all start and end with these wicked speed bumps with very little warning. After hitting a bazillion of those somewhere my backpack fell off and I didn’t notice until some people in a van were waving at me. I rode back to the previous village, no backpack!

I pictured myself riding around the Mexican countryside looking for the damn backpack for hours!

A man waved me over to tell me a white car had the backpack going south
so I turned around again and hit the throttle hard. After about 10 minutes I
cought up with the car at the side of the road and finally got my backpack back. Thank you Mr. Driver of white car!

The view from our room

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