Wow, a whole month already? What a strange trip its been - a roller coaster of highs and lows since my last update.
1. Alcoholic neighbor never did leave.
2. My phone fell out of my pocket in the Baja Sud mountains near San Antonio. By the time I noticed it a few miles later and returned I couldn't find it. After two hours I figured someone picked it up so I rode home South to Los Barriles and got on my laptop.
The iPhone GPS showed it was 20 miles further South at the OXXO store in Santiago. I hoped maybe whoever picked it up threw it away so I raced down and went through all the trash cans and looked in the bushes by the store. Nada...
The girl in the OXXO said the Plaza in Santiago had Wi-Fi so I went there and got back on my laptop only to see the phone was now past the Cabo Airport on the Toll road. Too late to chase it so I went home.
I sent a message to the phone in Spanish offering a reward.
It was then buried in the desert behind an art gallery near Todos Santos so I went to bed thinking I would ride 1.5 hours there in the morning, find a cop, and go fetch it.
At 11pm it was on the move and ended up at the Fairfield Inn in downtown Cabo. At 1am it was moved again to an apartment building in Cabo.
At 6am it was moving North on the Toll Road (could it be coming back all the way to Los Barriles? Maybe I could get the cops to set up a roadblock!).
Nope, it pinged at the Subway Restaurant at the Airport. OMG
I sent another message sating the phone was stolen and to report it to the Police and made the phone beep hoping airport security would hear it. Nope.
Ping on the runway taxi. Ping at the top of the runway. Ping halfway down the runway. No signal...
My only hope left was that it would be going to the States. Nope.
An hour later I picked up the signal in Guadalajara and then it moved to the NW part of the city to a massive apartment complex.
With 3.5 MILLION people there was no way the police there would chase a Gringos lost phone.
I had AT&T disable it.
Buying an iPhone in Mexico is expensive and there is basically no way to put it on a US plan and activate it here. Boo Hoo - going to Yuma to buy a 14 Pro Max now...
3. Bike stalling issue is back. Shut down in the gnarly mountains leading to Loreto. I coasted two miles but couldn't get off the road. As I was fiddling with the fuses a Semi flew by me into a blind turn but luckily no one was coming or he would have pushed them off the steep cliff.
I decided to stay in Loreto for a week but it kept getting worse to the point it wouldn't stay running at all.
Time to call Herman! Wait, I have no phone and his number was on it. Luckily, the RV park has shitty Wi-Fi and I could PM him.
After a week of testing, cleaning wires, cleaning the tank etc. I am happy to report it is alive & well.
I had already paid for a 3rd week here so will be headed North to Yuma next week.
1. Alcoholic neighbor never did leave.
2. My phone fell out of my pocket in the Baja Sud mountains near San Antonio. By the time I noticed it a few miles later and returned I couldn't find it. After two hours I figured someone picked it up so I rode home South to Los Barriles and got on my laptop.
The iPhone GPS showed it was 20 miles further South at the OXXO store in Santiago. I hoped maybe whoever picked it up threw it away so I raced down and went through all the trash cans and looked in the bushes by the store. Nada...
The girl in the OXXO said the Plaza in Santiago had Wi-Fi so I went there and got back on my laptop only to see the phone was now past the Cabo Airport on the Toll road. Too late to chase it so I went home.
I sent a message to the phone in Spanish offering a reward.
It was then buried in the desert behind an art gallery near Todos Santos so I went to bed thinking I would ride 1.5 hours there in the morning, find a cop, and go fetch it.
At 11pm it was on the move and ended up at the Fairfield Inn in downtown Cabo. At 1am it was moved again to an apartment building in Cabo.
At 6am it was moving North on the Toll Road (could it be coming back all the way to Los Barriles? Maybe I could get the cops to set up a roadblock!).
Nope, it pinged at the Subway Restaurant at the Airport. OMG
I sent another message sating the phone was stolen and to report it to the Police and made the phone beep hoping airport security would hear it. Nope.
Ping on the runway taxi. Ping at the top of the runway. Ping halfway down the runway. No signal...
My only hope left was that it would be going to the States. Nope.
An hour later I picked up the signal in Guadalajara and then it moved to the NW part of the city to a massive apartment complex.
With 3.5 MILLION people there was no way the police there would chase a Gringos lost phone.
I had AT&T disable it.
Buying an iPhone in Mexico is expensive and there is basically no way to put it on a US plan and activate it here. Boo Hoo - going to Yuma to buy a 14 Pro Max now...
3. Bike stalling issue is back. Shut down in the gnarly mountains leading to Loreto. I coasted two miles but couldn't get off the road. As I was fiddling with the fuses a Semi flew by me into a blind turn but luckily no one was coming or he would have pushed them off the steep cliff.
I decided to stay in Loreto for a week but it kept getting worse to the point it wouldn't stay running at all.
Time to call Herman! Wait, I have no phone and his number was on it. Luckily, the RV park has shitty Wi-Fi and I could PM him.
After a week of testing, cleaning wires, cleaning the tank etc. I am happy to report it is alive & well.
I had already paid for a 3rd week here so will be headed North to Yuma next week.
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