Taking a short-cut through the Sierra Madre
Posted in Mexico on Feb 5th, 2008
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In the Sierra Madre |
The Sierra Madre makes us work hard to cross them. Mescal distillers, steep roads, and mysterious mountain towns. (Map this!)
“Si Senor, this road is very good!”, said the bicyclist about the shortcut to Juquila. Our ten year old map did not show any road at all, but here was a beautiful road going exactly where we wanted and would shave off over four and a half hours of tough Mexican mountain driving. The road wound into the Sierra Madre, where one doesn’t need no stinkin’ badges. A steep grade kept me shifting between second and third on a roadbed without exhaust belching trucks and an absence of the dreaded speed bumps or ‘topes’ as they are called in Spanish
