 The travel advice from the UK government was basically stick to the main roads, don't head into the rural countryside because there are some areas where they're pretty much entirely controlled by the cartel. We should have checked the Google Maps, we didn't check it, because on Google Maps we're at the moment on a white road even, it's not even a yellow road, and now we have to ride one hour on these small roads. Yeah, I do not like this at all. Good morning world, welcome back to the channel, it's day number 379 on our circumnavigation around the globe, by motorcycle, good morning Bumblebee. Good morning, we're here in a little campground just next to the small town of Angahuin, and last night we camped very close to one of the world's youngest volcanoes, Paracutin, which is just over that way. A cute baby volcano, we had a really really promising night here actually, camping, it's dark, it's quiet in the nature, but there was actually a festival going on. Actually it's still going on now, you can hear it in the town of Angahuin, but actually it started off over there, and then it sort of migrated this way and actually ended up in this campground and basically went on for the entire night. People were singing and chanting and screaming, it was a really really crazy night. We asked the security guard here at the campsite and he said it was something to do with the gobernador, like the governor, so it was some sort of maybe political rally or something, but it was one hell of a party, but we did manage to get a bit of sleep and it is time to hit the road again, so let me show you guys the route for today. So we are here and today we're going to be heading back to the 15D Toll Road because our mission is to take this road north, north, north, north, north because our new mission is to reach the town of Los Moches to take a ferry across to the Baja California Peninsula. It's a little bit sad that we have to head back to the 15D Toll Road, but after checking on the UK government website about the travel advice here in Mexico and the security situation regarding cartel activity, armed conflict and robbery, the travel advice from the UK government was basically stick to the main roads, don't head into the rural countryside because this is where the security forces have limited access to and limited control and apparently there are some areas where they're pretty much entirely controlled by the cartel and we don't really want to be encountering that and having to deal with that on our journey. We had a check on Ioverlander and even in this region there is a warning which is about 30 miles away from here and it says armed men. I tried to cross a dam during the evening, a black truck with four armed men in the back, backed up to the north side of the dam. They did not signal me in any way, they immediately began shooting at me with rifles across the dam and this is about 30 miles from where we are right now. Yeah and just imagine us trying to turn around with Bumblebee, we would probably drop it straight away and then we wouldn't be able to pick it up, ask the guys, hey guys, can you help us pick it up? Our original plan was to take more back roads and try to see a little bit more of the countryside of Mexico, but after seeing this and the travel advice it just seems like the best option for us is to head back to the main highway, the 15D and this road really is the safest way for us to make our way across Mexico because we have still a long way to go. So it's about 15 hours to the ferry port to Baja California, we don't know exactly how far we can get today, but we will try to get as far as we can, it's already 7.15 and we need to pack up everything, so better hit the road, let's go. Just gonna have one last look at the volcano and the view this morning before we head off. There it is, Paracutin, 450 meters tall, born in 1943. Yeah and you can see quite nicely as well the lava field here. Yeah and just about in the background the church that we went to visit yesterday, half engulfed in molten lava, pretty insane, beautiful. All right let's turn this baby around, oh yeah, oh look at that turning circle, oh that was tight, the first time I've been able to do a circle that tight I think. I do wonder if I took an adventure motorcycle course if I would just be terrible or if I've actually like learned something on this trip so far. Maybe we'll find out one day. Yeah all right say goodbye to the least peaceful forest camp of our lives. Let's rock and roll. Rock and roll then. So we've got a crazy crazy road heading back into Angahuan they've got some sort of cobbling but it's like the most bumpy cobbling I've ever seen in my life. Throw some volcanic sand in there for good measure and you've got yourself a good old adventure in the morning. Anyway it looks really charming here actually, it looks like a little bit frozen time. It really does with all the horses here, yes except they didn't have horses 500 years ago I think. Where's the sound coming from? I don't know this chanting was going on for a long time yesterday, not just one but multiple people chanting. They're having really nice dresses here though, the ladies they're wearing really nice stuff. It's a charming little town that really knows how to party. Really we thought we are going back to the big road but apparently we have to wind our way through some small roads first for like an hour or something. Stick to the main road, don't head into the rural countryside. Yeah I didn't realize that the highway was so far away, I'm not totally happy about that. Yeah no one's like on every corner like oh my god is there something? I don't know maybe I read too much. I think you did actually even now I'm a little bit paranoid. Anyway let's hope for the best hey? I guess at all. We should have checked the google maps though, we didn't check it because on google maps we are at the moment on a white road even you know it's not even a yellow road and now we have to ride one hour on these small roads. Yeah I'm sure we will make it, it's just in our heads you know we're just relaxing our heads. Yeah so we made it back to the main road and we just stopped to the first petrol station that we could find just to sit and chill out for a minute and when we fuelled up they gave us a free coffee with our fuel up. It's pretty good. Jackpot! Oh my god that was probably the most stressful hour on the bike we've had, probably for the whole trip. I mean I don't know it was probably all just in our heads but I felt like every village that we were going through nobody was smiling everybody was sort of looking at us it was such a strange atmosphere. From the people and from us maybe it was like we both just didn't fit together at this time because we drove through and we just saw people like looking at us not in a friendly way. Like what are you doing here this is not the place for you that kind of feeling I was just like oh my god just get to the main road. Once you're stuck and you stick with something like this in your head like oh my god they're coming in the minute and they shoot you you know it's not a good way to travel. Like I said it was probably just in our heads but regardless I'm really happy that we're back on a bigger road and that we're going to be heading to the highway after this. What do we learn from it? We have to check google maps we can't trust it. Don't just be like start go. Anyway we made it. 25,999.9 We just hit 26,000 miles on the road. Here we go payage number one of the day and we're looking at 58 pesos for this one so that's like three pounds just under three pounds. Yep sounds all right to begin with but how many more are they going to be today? One two three four five. Okay gracias. So here we go coming on to the 15D highway super highway our home for the next couple of days. Yes because this highway will take us all the way to the ferry port in like 627 miles. Okay we have to fix it. Okay so we just had to stop on the side of the highway because our panya is snapped here. Yeah broken. Oh yeah yeah. We can just put a string around there. Okay yeah. Oh there you go look at that. You did very very well piece of metal for after all this time. Okay so yeah we'll loop a string through both. Okay just taking a break here in the shade at a petrol station on the highway. Guess what we're having for lunch? Tortilla. Tortilla and beans. So we've got inside here some refried beans mayonnaise hot sauce onion peppers cheese I think that's about it and you wouldn't believe it but we're almost getting through our stack of tortillas probably only have about I think seven left but you know what it's been quite a few times we've had this same meal and I'm still not sick of it. I still love tortilla. Have you seen a road in one of our episodes that you'd love to ride but don't know where it is or are curious about exactly which route we take in each of our daily rides? Well let me introduce you guys to our interactive route map. Our interactive route map is where we upload every day of our ride around the world and what's so cool about it is you can click anywhere on the route and it will tell you which day of the ride it was and give you a link to the episode from that day so you can see where you might want to ride. Wow absolutely stunning really absolutely stunning here and we're not. Follow the link in the description below to dive in and hopefully it can help you to start to plan your own overland adventures and now back to the video. We have entered Pineapple territory. Yeah they are literally growing them all over the hills around here and they're growing them even on the side of the highway. They're using pretty much every little square meter they can find to grow pineapple here. Yeah they're literally growing them right up to the edge of the road which is absolutely incredible. Oh wow wow yeah there are a lot of fires going on here. Because it's a long ride and Ollie was like let's go and get some pizza. Nice suggestion. I don't remember suggesting that. You suggested that. Thank you Pizza Hut for the afternoon pick me up. So there was a really nice pizza and we checked as well where we can stay for the night and we found one place which is about one hour from here because it is actually already 4 30 and the sun is setting at 6 30. So I think the town is called Rosa Morado. We just found this place on Ioverlander. They said it's somewhere between 350 for the night which is like between 15 and 20 pounds a night. So let's hope it's 15. But yeah it's been an incredibly long day. A lot of highway riding with the stress in the morning of going through what turned out to be just pleasant countryside. So yeah I'm definitely definitely looking forward to finishing the day and hopefully getting a good night of rest. Yes because for some reason we are still both sick as well. Yeah just lacking like a lot of energy today. Yeah oh yeah well it's just for an hour more today and then hopefully tomorrow we'll get the second half of this ride done and get to that ferry. Gracias. Gracias. Last day of the day hey. Here we go coming into Rosa Morada. Oh what a beautiful welcome sign look at this. Yeah that's a nice mural. Very pleasant. We have to go over the train track here. Yeah apparently that's the way into town. Okay. It's like oh god. Okay that was a bit a little bit dodgy wasn't it. Well super dodgy here. Oh there's the guard dog in town. Okay there's always a guard dog. Oh the hotel is just here. Hotel Catalina. Yeah yep. Okay There we go. Hola. Buenas. Esta una habitación para una noche. Cuanto costa para oh it's 450. How much is 450. I think the prices might have gone up a little bit since I overlanded. 20 pounds. Okay. Estacionamento para la moto. Okay perfecto. Gracias. Oh no it's a little baby around there. Oh oh yes. There we go. Got a room. Aha whoa little puppy. Look they got a trampoline. Big one as well. Good evening guys. We made it exhausted and alive and happy as well. Yes we're here in the little roadside pit stop town of Rosa Morado and we have air conditioning. And a fan. Yeah actually our bike recorded 36 degrees today again so it was really really really hot. We've come down from the mountains we're back down at sea level everything's gone tropical again and everything's gone hot. It was like freezing last night almost and here it's like the mid 20s so our bodies are like what's going on guys. What are you doing. But we made it we're here we are about halfway to the ferry at Los Moshis so we have to just see tomorrow how the day goes and whether we can make it for the night ferry tomorrow night over to Baja California. So we just added up our tolls for the day and it's 25 pounds. It's a bit more than I was expecting to be honest. Pretty expensive tolls. We might even consider maybe taking some B roads tomorrow. Stick to the main roads. Don't head into the rural countryside. And that's it from us today we hope you enjoyed the video if so please give us a thumbs up subscribe to the channel share the video with your friends and family comment below and we will see you next time.