ZOMBIE
Bienvenido a mis amigos mexicanos querido! Gracias por cuidar de mí tan grande aquí en México.
Mi sitio web tiene una traducción al español la posibilidad!
Por favor, sólo tiene que desplazarse hacia abajo y seleccione el idioma español en la herramienta de TRANSLATE en el lado derecho de mi página de blog. Espero verte en el camino! Tony
I ran 50km.
Then Sunday was a big day as I was just a little over 15km short of 10,000km run since I started in Merrion Square North at the end of the Dublin marathon.
I am getting a huge amount of people here in Mexico telling other people that I started my run in Canada! I don’t know why that is, never had that before.
They took me onto the autopista. That’s great, hardly any disruption now and a zillion times safer. It also does the morale great good when you see a sign for your destination on the national highway saying 60km and on the autopista you got to run just 44! Nice one…
Into the final 5km for the 10k…. I wondered what the Irish record was for 10k!
I was feeling great, feeling strong. Then a song got stuck in my head and I couldn’t get the chorus out of my head for the rest of the day, The Cranberries ‘ ZOMBIE ‘ PLAY
A song about conflict in Northern Ireland.
No I don’t feel like a zombie, don’t know where that one came from but I guess after almost 9 and a half months on the road I should be.
Esteban took me to a nice hotel called Hotel Tepic. We were due to meet the Mayor at noon. We understood he had to make a special journey into his office as today is Sunday. His phone rang out, so we didn’t get to go as we figured he didn’t make it.
Then that night Esteban came over with Karina, the city Tourism director. Karina kindly brought me over 3 huge takeaway meals, I figure she had to be reading this blog, so easy to buy for me and the wonderful hotel room too.
She also presented me with a lovely Nayarit State woolly shoulder bag, a big flowery pen, a flowery key ring and a flowery cross with lovely beads. So after all the pictures I should have said a prayer for myself for a change as I am on so many peoples prayer lists. I am not really a believer in organised religion but have a certain spirituality. Like many people out there I am confused, but I do know for sure, that there is something up there looking out for me.
When I was in tight corners or stuck up in the Afghan mountains in a winter storm on my world cycle trip as a kid, things just seemed to work out for me.
Same here on this trip when running thru the worst winter in North American history, the proof is in this blog.
Now I am being guided through Mexico meeting wonderful people.
Just about everyone is friendly and has a big smile on their faces. Mexico has a lot to be angry about but to me as an outsider I have not detected anything.
For example in the war with the USA in the 1846-48 DETAILS HERE the in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas the USA stole California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado from Mexico. That was all Mexican land, are they angry or bitching in public? I never heard anything. That’s why they call Baja ‘ Baja California ‘ which means lower California, because that was the lower part of what was stolen from their Californian territory.
In Ireland many people are still talking about 800 years of British occupation, and dozens of other such conflicts around the world, the Middle-East, too.
The Mexicans are a lovely forgiving people as far as I can see.
They just get on with life, no bitchin about their past.
