 The only chance of us getting on a road this morning is to have a coffee. It was a pretty loud night because the air conditioning unit is very very loud. I thought the whole night that there's a truck in front of our room and then we had mosquitoes as well wanting to eat us. Let's hope that the room tonight will be a little bit better and a little bit more comfortable. And not so scary. How does the bearing look? My professional eye says everything's good. Good. Wheel still on? Wheel still on. Goodbye most disgusting room. I won't miss you. But thank you that you were there as an option. Good morning world. Welcome back to the channel. It's day number 374 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle. We're here in the town of La Quijaja and we've just jumped onto the highway number 1800 on our way to Mexico City. Yeah it's a really nice cool morning. 26 degrees. Perfect start for the day. Yeah and we made a really really really good distance yesterday. We put in a lot of hours. I think it was about 10 hours on the bike. The aim was to reach halfway between Palenque and Mexico City but actually we managed to make it well over halfway. And today we have just under five hours of riding to reach Mexico City. So let me show you guys the route for today. We are here and today we're going to be following this green road all the way into this craziness right here. We have a day off as well. A day off of sightseeing which will be really really cool. Yeah Mexico City is also the largest city in North America so it's going to be super super crazy to see how it is when we arrive. Yeah so it's just about 215 miles and it's already 7.30 so better hit the road let's go. So we're starting to climb our first mountains for like ages. We haven't had these kinds of mountains in a long time. Yeah in a very long time actually. Yeah it looks like as well that we sort of passed the tropical bits now. It looks a little bit more dry a little bit more desert here. It's not so humid anymore which is really nice. Yeah with any luck we've left the super high temperatures and the tropical humidity behind. We have landscapes again. Yes. After days and days and days of like sweating on the bike I'm now freezing cold. The temperature is 18 degrees and we've like really climbed up high into the mountains now. Maybe it's time to get our jumpers on. Yeah this kind of gear we're wearing at the moment really is not good for anything under like 25, 24, 23 degrees. Wind just blows straight through you with this gear on. That's amazing how quickly everything can change hey. And within one ride. Oh it's some little puppies. Hello. Don't we have a little bit of space in our bags here? I think we do. For two? For two. I want to say hello. Okay. You're a good little boy. You are good little boy. You ease. Let's see if we can find a snack to eat hey. Yeah. What have we got to snack? I'm already hungry. Three quesadillas for 35. That's about one pound fifty is it? Okay let's see if they got it. Um yeah mice is okay. Con verduras. Quesadillas are quesillo. Con cerrado. Okay. Okay. In the center of the plate you put chili, chili pepper, onion and tomato. Okay cool there you go. Look at all this like sugary stuff here. And then really cool they have like this sugar and peanut plate here. And then a big big turtle is here. Which is I think just pure sugar as well. Here's with some cheese inside and now we can put some of the onion, pepper, tomato on top or inside. I don't know really. Alright ready for the cold. We've got our rain jackets over. Lavi's gone for the rain trousers as well. But we looked at the temperature in Mexico City and it looks to be like in the sort of mid to high 20s as well. So not crazy hot. So I think hopefully this outfit should work. Got some doggie. Doggy. You're trying to just push him out of the way. These dogs don't want to leave our bike alone. Oh bless him. Bye bye puppies. Bye bye puppies. So it looks like we have hit a major traffic jam here. Yeah it's like the traffic completely stopped. Completely stopped. People are like outside their cars and doing this and that. But luckily we're having like this nice lane here on the side. Which is amazing. We are saving a lot of time. I think my estimation was that it could take like over an hour to get through here. And actually we've got a few people here blocking our way. Yeah it's okay yeah. I'm okay yeah. Yeah you're alright. Yes. Okay yeah I mean I'm gonna see if I can make my way through and back out to the edge. Oh yeah that's a good idea. Okay. Okay. Is he going? No. Oh thank you. Okay he's going back a little bit. Uh huh. Thank you. Thank you. He's like a little dinosaur on his front. Yeah a little pterodactyl. Okay yep. Yes. Back to the bike lane. It worked. Everything is completely blocked. Wow. What's going on there? Oh bugger. Oh bugger. Is that like? Okay I'm gonna try again. Okay. But it looks like there's more and more people in that lane. They're in the military stuck. Oh crazy stuff is going on here. Oh man. Just all these guys in the side lanes. Yeah. Yep. Yes. There's a man plowing his field there. That's romantic hey. But like with a horse. Oh there's another motorbike behind us. Maybe just beep this guys. Gracias. Gracias. Yeah this is what you need hey a motorbike. Uh huh. Yeah this is gonna save us a hell of a lot of time. Okay I think we've reached the front now. Yeah. And I think it's just this this bus hey. Yeah. That's it. The bus broke down yeah. It's just a broken down bus. Yes. Oh my god. Why can't they move the bus to the side. That's crazy. Crazy man. There's like not for us but for them probably an hour wait. At least. Because the bus broke down. I cannot believe that. It's not fair it's really not fair. So we just stopped here on the side of the road. It's a pretty hectic ride today. A lot of overtaking tracks. It's pretty hectic. But anyway I bought some fried beans from the shop here. Which is so cool that you can just pick them up like this. We have some natures left. And I got us some vegetarian pasties for like a pound. They smell good. Yummy. It's a parasol kind of day. Thanks Chris. It's time to get our Mexico on the box. Brilliant. Ah, beautiful. Muchas gracias. So we finally found a PSI pressure meter. And the lovely lady at the petrol station is helping us to make it work on the tire. Okay we just changed pumps. We're going to try this one and see if this works any better. Oh it's pretty tight. Perfecto. Cool. Awesome. Okay. Whether or not it's going to work. Hold on. I don't know. Yeah maybe. Yeah? It was on 35 apparently. It was on 35 and now it's on 40. So we set it to 40 in the back and 38 in the front. Muchas gracias. Thank you. Cool. Good job. Alright. Time to rock and roll. Just coming into the limits of Mexico City. The largest city in North America. I think we're pretty much just following this road straight straight straight. And that should take us right into the heart of the city. And then we booked an accommodation on booking.com. Which is only something like 14 pounds a night. Oh look there's a cable car. They're using like the same like in La Paz. For the public transport. That's cool. Nice. I really tried hard to find like the cheapest but not the worst room here in Mexico City. But apparently in this like price range they have just the adult hotels. So apparently this is as well again like an adult or love hotel. At least this one seems to have really good cleanliness reviews. Exactly. Very good reviews on booking.com. So we thought let's give it a go. Yeah give it a go. So we booked three nights in the city. So we'll do a bit of sightseeing tomorrow. And then we've got a day to catch up on a bit of computer work, editing work. And have a little bit of rest to be honest after some crazy long rides. So we're getting closer into the heart of Mexico City. So I thought it'd be a good time to tell you guys a couple of bits and bobs about this massive massive place. Mexico City was actually founded on the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan. And was basically built directly on top of that conquered city. It's absolutely crazy because it used to be that Tenochtitlan was on an island in the middle of a lake. But that lake is totally gone now. They actually drained it to help with the mosquito problem at some point. It's crazy to think that there was actually a lake here in the heart of the city. So the city lies in the valley of Mexico on the high Mexican plateau. And it's actually at 2,240 meters above sea level. But it's still really hot. Yes, 32 degrees at the moment. The population of the city is 9.2 million. But in the greater metropolitan area there are 21 million people here making it the sixth largest metropolitan area in the world. And the second largest behind Sao Paulo in the Americas. It is the largest city in North America, larger than any US city. And I can tell you a lot of those people own cars. It is packed with traffic here for sure. And surprisingly, you can't really see many bikes. No, it doesn't look like as much of a bike or city. I'm not sure why that is. So we're only about five minutes away from our accommodation now. And our accommodation is called Hotel Rio. Where is it? It should be. Oh yeah, here, Hotel Rio. Hotel Rio. Oh, Hotel Rio. It's like the flag of Brazil. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. I think he said go in here and then there. Gotcha. Happy the life. Whee! This incredibly nice room. Yeah, I'm pleasantly surprised because it was a love hotel that we left this morning. But this is quite a nice love hotel. Yes. Look at this. It's got hearts on the shower. Super nice, big shower as well. Wow. Hearts on the toilet. Your standard love seat there. But it's very clean. It's pretty big. It's got a nice big window. They put a lot of effort into the design and you can see it. Like it's pretty cool. I'm really impressed. Rio Hotel. Yeah, I'm really, really happy in this room. Yeah, not a bad place for the same price. The same price as the room we left this morning. The same price. Unbelievable. Yes, I'm really happy with this room. We will spend the next three nights here because we really, really need a little bit of a rest. Just one day, just in bed, sleeping because since Panama we didn't have a proper day off actually. We were just like go, go, go every day like visiting things and riding the bike. So it would be nice to just one day in bed, you know. Yeah, it's been a lot of miles on the road. I'm really looking forward to a day off the bike. But for now we will just head out. We will get something to eat and that's it from us today. 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