Just wanted to give people an update since our bikes were stolen. Some wonderful people in Penjamo helped us get my bike back to Guadalajara where we stayed for five days looking for parts. After we got the parts all ordered (or so we thought), we returned to Colima to visit some of our new friends while we waited for some old friends to fly into Zihuatanejo, Guerrero. We spent a week in the town of Zihua, as its called for short, in a house we rented off of AirBnB. 
For the first few days it was just Milton, Dennis, and I in the house but then our friends Doni, Suzanne, and James came and stayed there also. 
After Zihua, we drove about 20-30 minutes south of Zihua where we spent three nights in some little cabanas on the beach in Barra de Potosi with our friends.
We spent the days boogie boarding, laying in the sun, or kicking back in th hammocks in the shade, or watching the gorgeous sunsets just off of the cabanas. It was a much needed break for us all.
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riends brought down a new pannier for my bike loaded with camping gear to replace what we lost. Our friends Doni and Kevin did a great job packing everything, even told us we had to check the fingers in the gloves for parts. A huge thank you goes out to all those who helped with getting gear to us. Thank you Casey for driving all the way to Seattle to pick it up; Doni for getting more gear from South Sound Motorcycles; Happy Trails for being so easy to work with and after explaining our situation they got the pannier shipped out next day air even after our card was declined (had to explain to the bank why they kept seeing charges in the US when we were in Mexico); huge thank you to our friends Suzanne and James for being willing to haul my pannier through airports and on the plane to deliver it to us in Zihua. Also thank you to Rene in Guadalajara for being willing to store my bike until we get the bike parts in and for hooking us up with his friend Miguel who’s picking up the parts in Chula Vista, CA, bringing them across the border and shipping them to Rene’s house. So thankful my bike is safely stored in Guadalajara so we can continue to do a little traveling in this beautiful country. Although it was wonderful to spend some time bonding with my girlfriends Doni and Suzanne, by Friday we were ready to ride again. We are riding 2up on his bike, it is just a little more loaded down as we now are carrying three Happy Trail panniers on the bike rather than two.
After a two day stop in the beautiful city of Morelia in Michoacan we are now in San Miguel de Allende, another beautiful city. We are down here just the two of us as Dennis headed back to the states on Thursday. It was sad but needed to happen and better it happen now rather than further along the journey. I have learnt many things in this two month time period with one being just because people ride well together for a week doesn’t mean they ride well together for longer. Then it’s just time for people to go their own direction.