1000 WORDS

We set off down the highway in a group, slip streaming to minimise the effects of headwind and also hoping that as a single unit we are more visible and so a little less vulnerable to the passing traffic. The truck drivers, it must be said, are, in general, very considerate, slowing down and giving us a wide berth.

We are keen to investigate new food options and stop when-ever and where-ever we can to add to our culinary knowledge.

Burrito stand by the highway for hungry truckdrivers and hungry cyclists.

Roadside dining - the trucks continue to thunder by.

Burritos - they cost next to nothing and can be extremely tasty.

We arrive in Nueves Casas Grandes, a sizeable North Chihuahuan town with, we discover later, a nasty reputation for drug related violence*, and check into the Hotel California and seek out more food.

An impressive fish dinner for less than $6.

*Something like 14 000 people have been murdered or have gone missing in this area over the last 3 – 4 years.