San Jose del Pacifico to Puerto Angel

Ted:
from Sj del P, the ride really was lagely downhill, and would´ve been the best descent we´ve ever been on had it not been for the rain. During the whole afternoon, it was a warm rain keeping us from really going the speed we wanted to. The rain wasn´t altogether unpleasent, just limiting. My speedometer broke, keeping me from knowing just how fast I was going. We made it to Pto Angel by the evening, and found a place to stay. Afterwards, we had a bit of a time looking for a resturant called Beto´s that was suposed to have great food. We found it, and it did have great food. It it smotheringly hot here, like awful, horrible humid sticky heat, yet another reason why we´re taking the bus from here to Sc de las Casas. I kind of wish we didn´t have to, but we don´t have the time, nor the sweat wicking technology to ride there. It´s just too darn hot.

Andy:
Another epic day today... We left our lovely hotel at about ten am and
promptly found an internet place down the hill where we could post the
day's post. We couldn't get the pictures to go thru though so those
will be coming. It seemed like we would have one huge downhill but
that turned out not to be the case. We continued climbing after a
short downhill teaser. Very soon we were hungry again and we ate once
along the road and another time in a restaurant perched on the side of
a cliff. During lunch number two the thunder started booming and the
raindrops fell hard on the metal roof of the building we were in. We
suited up in pants and jackets and, shortly afterwards, in fleece
jackets too. We also descended seriously for hours afterwards with
occassional climbs that were just as steep. We went from cold and
rainy in pine trees to warm and rainy in thick tropical foliage --
bananas, big leafy houseplant like things, epiphytes growing in trees,
vines, etc, etc. No soil was to be seen short of the immediate ditch.
We also saw a crowd along the side of a road looking down at a truck
that fell off of the edge. It didn't look good, especially since we
saw the ambulance coming about fourty five minutes later. It was a
helpless feeling knowing that there was nothing that we could do
except watch so we went on our way. Eventually we reached the ocean
after a long long while. We are in a huesped now and I can hear the
waves in the little bay we are in. It's also quite hot and the
mosquitoes are biting. I am ready to head to bed under my mosquito
net. By the time we reached the sea it stopped raining...

distance today: 115 km
Riding time: 6.5 hours
Total distance: 1129 km