| Location: | Creel |
| Mileage: | 7,000 |
Everyone is happy to leave Tucson. We are off at 6am and head to the Mexican border. The US border officials blink a couple of times when we tell them we are not coming back as we headed for Panama and tell us “to be safe”. Only the day before, the police chief in the Mexican border town had been gunned down – we don’t tell the group this as some seem nervous enough. The formalities are pretty efficient and all of us are through within a couple of hours, negotiate the back streets and find Highway 2 to Casas Grandes. It’s a smooth run, with a roadside stop for our first “real” tacos, before arriving for our first night in Mexico. So far, so good!
Our second days ride is superb, plenty of beautiful twisting mountain roads and warm sunshine. Creel is a small Mexican town and although used to having some tourists starts to give all a flavour of what’s to come in Mexico. Everyone bounces over the railway line that cuts the town in two. Our hotel has a lovely small courtyard and is perfect for drinking Tecate and putting the world to rights.
