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People we met in Baja California

Gerardo

good luck for us that we met at one of our first days in Mexico an enthusiastic Mexican bicyclist, who speaks English. Gerardo invited us out of his car on the road. He guided us through the nightlife of Ensenada and tought us about the Mexican way of life. It was no problem for him, that we just have been with two friends from California (Claudia and Leon, see also at "California 4"). We invited us all to a great Burrito-dinner and a typical Mexican breakfast. He also tought us that Mexicans like to laugh and make jokes. From his point of view Mexican car drivers cause less accidents than people from the States because they were too poor to buy new cars. We hope he is right even if it sounds like a joke. (mi)

 

Reina Elena and Francisco

Francisco offered us to stay in his house when we were very nervously looking for a place to stay while it starts getting dark. His daughter Lluvia Rafaela and Bertha Alejandra followed very interested, how we prepared our bivouac, cooked and plaied Back Gammon. At the next morning Reina Elena prepared a great Mexican breakfast for us with eggs, refried beans and cactus-vegetables. Very delicious! The family is really poor but they gave us drinking water, tomatos and cucumbers before we left. (mi)

 

Andrew and Serge

were like us on their way to South Amerika. Andrew is from Alaska, Serge from Belgium. Both met by chance in the States and cycled together since than. We met them on the road, split and met again two days later in a cheep mexican hotel in San Quintin. Together we ate Markus' homemade pancakes on the roof of the hotel.
Andrew: wellera@hotmail.com
Serge: sergeveldman@yahoo.com
(mi)

 

Helga and Gerd

the sky-blue truck, a converted Hanomag from the former DDR we liked at once. "That are Germans" Markus yelled after he saw the licence plate. It was good to talk German again and than to somebody so interesting! Helga and Gerd travel since many years in North and South Amerika. They experienced many adventures! Markus talked a lot about the technical details in the Hanomag and I chated with Helga about doing handicrafts, which is also one of her hobbys. Together we discussed a lot about German living today and spent the whole night talking. (mi)

 

Andi

the nice Bavarian guy we met at our desert crossing shortly in front of Rosarito. We called him "Ironman", because he is so sporty and always faster than we were. But he also really took part on an "ironman"-competition. "Why did you train for such a hard competition?", we asked him. Andi told us about his strong ski accident, where he nearly died. While laying in hospital he decided to train as long as his body is fit again. Fit enough to be an Ironman. We spend some days with him and took pathes we'd never had taken without him. (mi)

 

Beth & Jeremy and Louis

Seldom you will meet a cyclist alone! And so we met in the desert not only Andi (see above) but also we met Beth and Jeremy from Great Britain and Louis from the East Coast of the States. They all took a year off and cycle the American Continent south. Louis writes diary about his trip every day and publshes it on his website: touringlouie.crazyguyonabike.com (mi)

 


Andi, Beth, Jeremy, Mila and Louis

Jose

was our rescuer. We followed Andi along a gravel road which we would call really bad! For Andi it seems to be no problem. With his MTB and the thick tires he determinedly wants to do an ironman's job. Soon we lost him at the next steep klimb. Then we started to doubt, if we could make the 40 km uphill gravel in one day at all. But then Jose came with his truck and asked, if he could give us a lift. O yes!! And so all of us (we also picked up Andi later) arrived very relaxed in San Francisco de la Sierra, where we visited beautiful cave paintings. The next day on our way back Jose has been there again. A real angel! (mi)

 


Jose, Markus and Andi

Jolynn and Richard

embosomed us from the first moment. They invited us with Andi directly for dinner. It was irrelevant, that it was Christmas. They lent us three of their kayaks and gave us the pleasure of a wondeful Christmas Eve (see also the diary-report "Cristmas 2003") While Andi pushed along we nearly settled down at the beautiful beach of "Los Naranjos"! The first time of our trip we stayed 3 weeks at the same place. There arose several new website-entries, newspaper articles and two wall paintings (see at "art/Painting"). The farewell was very difficult for all of us. Probably we will meet again in some years at the Burning Man in California. (mi)

 

Eulalio

the ranchero kindly offered us to camp on his little farm. For dinner we had fresh homemade cheese and for breakfast he brought milk direkt from the cow - very delicious! Eulalio and I played a game of Back Gammon while Markus examined the windmill for the watere pump. A hurricane in fall of 2003 demaged it seriously. Everywhere we have seen traces of this hurricane, mostly destroyed roads, houses and bowled down signboards. Unfortunately the windmill of Eulalio was too much destroyed to be repaired by Markus. (mi)

 
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