San Miguel Allende to Huetujla, listed as 270 miles, actually 340 miles

The day started out well. We left before the sun was up and got a few miles in before the directions got weird. We discovered the error and decided to just find our own route. I hate to double back (I've already been there). We went into Pachuca (famed pot growing area) and decided to take a route over the mountains to tonight’s destination. That’s when the rain started. We spent the next 7 hours in various degrees of mountain rain. Sometimes we were above the rain, hence in the thick rain cloud. Sometimes we were in a heavy mist. Most often we were in a downpour. This area is actually rainforest, so it rains constantly. We couldn’t see too well because helmet visors have no wipers. You try to push your visor up to about half open and peek out under it. If the speed is not too great the rain doesn’t sting much, except in tropical downpours. Not every aspect of tropical rain is bad for motorcycling. One advantage I discovered during today's rain is that I didn't have to stop to pee (he's joking isn't he?).
Today’s ride included more fallen rocks than ever before. The torrential rain washes away tons of earth at a time. I had to dodge soccer ball-sized rocks twice, and a basketball-sized one once. Of course when there is a soccer-ball-sized fallen rock there are many ancillary tennis-ball-sized ones too. There was also a Volkswagen-sized boulder on the edge of the road but it may have fallen there yesterday. We had pigs, dogs, donkeys, horses and cows in the road, localized flooding, and topes. Topes are an ingenious third world traffic quelling device. Basically they are speed bumps, before, in and after every village along the route. The ingenious part is that 4 out of 5 of them are painted yellow and signed TOPE! so you’ll slow down. However, about 20% are neither painted, nor signed. Once you’ve hit one of these at 40mph you’ll crawl through the next few towns.