Here in San Miguel de Allende the rainy season is suppose to have ended and we should be moving into winter with the gardens and trees moving into dormancy. However, what is suppose to be isn't and last Friday evening we had a fairly heavy rain, although most of it occurred while we were sleeping.
Once the clouds cleared Saturday morning, Jo Ann and I decided to take our normal Saturday bike ride, we had hoped to bike into San Miguel and have lunch. This is a great ride, about 50 kilometers total since there is not straight line other than the main carrterra and we refuse to ride along it as there are no shoulders or bike lanes.
Riding through Rancho Viejo we noticed that everything was much wetter than we anticipated, in fact in several places we had to navigate around several major water holes.
When we got to the carrterra Palo Colorado, we realized that it had rained much more than we initially thought. As you can see here, the road was under water in many places and we abandoned our initial plans and decided to take a shorter route through Taboada and then to Atotonilco.
Everything was a muddy mess but we continued a long our plan, when we were about half way to Atotonilco we found probably the only person or animal that was enjoying the muddy results of the recent rains.
It took us a lot longer to compete the ride given the weather, but it was a great ride, although as you can see below, I had a lot of clean up to do afterwards.
Well at least I did not have to do the laundry!
1 comment:
Hola Amigo,
Mucho lluvia aqui!
Here on the east side of Mexico we have had a LOT of rain - and this is our dry season ;-)
I never complain about rain as we are catch water people - we just get out and use it more than we would if we were in the 'dry' season.
As always a good Blog - Glad to see you reporting in again.
Juan Calypso
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