Day 7
San Ignacio to Mulege
220-ish miles
We got a decent start on the day and went down to eat with Effrain, his parents were working the place this morning. His madre cooked up some mean huevos rancheros.....yep again. They paired well with Pacifico, amazing how well it goes food. 
The road out of town was paved for a while then turned to improved dirt closer to Laguna Ignacio. The ride after reaching the water was awesome. Pulsing through perfectly smooth flats and small depressions. Again, some of my favorite riding of the trip.
THere were nice pockets of sand in here too and some really slick ass skimmed mud, better watch that at 70mph! Looks like it would be some epic mangrove exploring along here.
We rolled through a couple sleepy fishing villages and got to hand out some more stickers to some great kids.
There was dodging dogs as well, almost dumped it on the sandy corner as I tried to outrun this pit bull.
We stopped in Scorpion bay for a lunch of dorados tacos and beers. There's a good little gas shack out towards the point. Some weird red tide on the water. Nice clean town. The day just kept getting better. We dropped off the pavement and then started a series of bisecting a few valleys that had small river crossings in the bottom. And then hit the pavement for a bit into La Purisma.
The "pass" heading east out of La Purisma was one of my favorite vantages of the trip.
That was followed up by some beautiful country, passing small and very remote ranches. These folks out here are tough. I wish we could have pulled in and talked to a few. There were lots of burros and horses out here. I was pleasantly surprised to not be flatting. The rocks were relentlless and varied. I was runnning HD tubes and about 23lbs of pressure. That's what I rocked most of the trip. I had considered lowering the PSI, but I wasn't pinch flatting, so I dealt with the rockhard pressure.
When we connected to the hwy and headed north, we were ready for Hotel Serinidad. Unfortunately, we hauled ass up north and didn't take as much time as I would have liked to take in the bonita vistas. Next time. at 5pm. .
We pulled in around dusk and for some reason decided to do some bike maintenance. It's a great thing to do after riding over 200 miles.[emoji12] But some Tecates seemed to help the job. The food at the hotel was pretty decent and were the margs.
Day 7 highlights - turn on high quality
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