December 8

We are in the Hotel Canada, in $19 rooms. Valle Hermoso is a lot like Contol, only much bigger. We got our laundry done and had lunch - my first bowl of menudo in 35 years. Had to repair the BOB tire again, and now my pump doesn't work right. The weather is cool, cold for here, and there are intermittent showers. Arnulfo says that the people who live in the towns and villages between here and Cd. Victoria will be good to us, and if we can't find a hotel where we need to stop, that a family will be willing to put us up. Sasha went to an internet café, and I am venturing out to buy some groceries.

Tomorrow we ride on, to San Fernando, the gods willing.