Batten down the hatches, I am turning 25!!! Oh wait, I already used that title when I sailed from Panama to Colombia during my Bday on the van trip. That was an awesome time, spent with some great people hopping around beautiful Caribbean islands. Ok, so there are no hatches to batten down this time, but my 25th birthday is coming up, yet I have no plan on doing anything out of the ordinary. I knew I didn’t want to spend it in Morelia since there was not much going on, so as previously mentioned, Churro and I headed West to Uruapan looking for adventure, despite not knowing what a Uruapan even was.

Now, el Churro and I had such a good time on the Ruta de Mezcal, we both completely forgot about that problematic carb previously mentioned as Problem #5. But el Churro and I hate pavement, so as soon as we got on the highway he reminded me twice on the short trip over to Quiroga about the problem, bringing us to a halt on the side of the road each time.  What the hell bro we are trying to go get some delicious carnitas. Ok, ok I get it you need some attention, better here than hours deep in the back of vigilante forest I guess. A quick draining of the carb each time and we were back on the road.

Edit: I have no idea what ruta de mezcal is, I have seen signs for it out near Dolores Hidalgo, so probably has nothing to do with where I was, but this is already written so it is what it is.

So Morelia may be tame, but the surrounding area is AMAZING (once you get off the 15!). At some point while still in Morelia, el Churro and I ride up the nearby mountain looking for an aerial view of the city. The view is there, but I continue on further since el Churro now has that professional looking switch I have added, and yes it solved the overheating problem. If this adventurer stuff doesn’t pan out I can always fall back on my electrical work. We continue on to explore and eventually see legit blue tourist signs for the “ruta de mezcal”….well I dont know what that is but that sounds like fun, so away we go.

Always the diva!

I didn’t really fix el Churro during my stay in Patzcuaro, but moved onto Morelia which is a much larger city, so figure I can get him back to normal there. It is an easy drive from Patzcuaro, maybe an hour or less on the free road. The centro of Morelia is a beautiful colonial city, the entire centro is pretty large but it doesn’t feel overly big, which is the perfect combination. I basically walk around and eat….why do you even read this when this is all I do? I always walk away from the centro so I can get a feel for outside the touristy areas, so I did a bunch of that too. I am not necessarily bored with the city, but being solo I don’t take advantage of any of the nice looking bars or restaurants.  Most are empty anyway most likely a result of covid, though everything seems to be up and running in general here.