02/04/24 Angangueo - south - CycleBlaze

02/04/24 Angangueo - south - CycleBlaze

From south

By David Chavez

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February 4, 2024

02/04/24 Angangueo

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What a difference a day makes! No wind, light traffic and pleasant temperatures made the short ride up to Angangueo a joy. I topped out in the plaza at 8500 feet, highest elevation to date since leaving San Diego.

I had coffee and cupcakes at the Oxxo across the street from my hotel, and then stopped in the town of Aporo for tamales

and orange juice. Every day, fresh squeezed juice!

I had my choice of Aporo signs

Cooking up pig products

Following the signs up the hill

Nice mountain air, decent road, not a lot of traffic

Just a house which caught my eye. I guess for all the firewood out front

Share the road!

I encountered a procession, it wasn’t going far

But there were a couple of groups

Entering Angangueo. It’s a vertical town, basically a narrow road that goes straight up

I found a hotel at the bottom, but pedaled up to the plaza in order to hit 8,500 feet

Found a young dinosaur in the plaza

Several murals, this one all about the butterflies. Note the National Geographic cover in the middle

I remember when this issue came out (1976). It impressed me greatly then and is the reason I am here now

I walked (trudged) up to the monument to the miners for the view

Looking northwest to where I rode in from

and northeast towards the plaza

and across the town to the other side

This looked interesting, I walked down for a closer look

It’s a memorial to the migrants who have died trying to get to the US

The plaque

Google’s lousy translation, but you get the gist (I can’t believe I actually complained about the result of pointing my phone at Spanish text)

More murals

Callejone del Arte (Art Alley) has the history of the town

I liked the checkerboard

Security

Houses in a vertical town

In the plaza

Courtyard of my hotel. Some of the rooms evidently have fireplaces and a guest asked about firewood. They were told they refrain from fires now, for the butterfly’s sake. They are 2,000 feet above me, I’m taking a bus there in the morning

Today's ride: 19 miles (31 km)
Total: 1,696 miles (2,729 km)

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