Bronco running strong... but... why there's always a "but"?

Last Saturday we went to a little underground cenote north of Leona Vicario. We carried along Luzma, Pancho and Mario's diving gear, and had a great time cycling around...

It was a problem-free ride, yet there's something with the front wheeltrain that it's bothering me. Not sure what it is though. It's a kind of knock from the transfer case when pulling from start. And a kind of juddering from the front wheels when moving slowly at full lock. Nothing huge really but enough to keep me worried.

That's what happens when you run a 14 years old truck... I guess.

I include pictures of the pretty amazing interior of the cenote and the mighty Bronco! :)

Cycling around the peninsula...

A picture of cenote Xcanche, the end of our Saturday's ride.

Yesterday we finally hit the road again! As I hadn't done any cycling since my visit to Yaxunah, I was really looking forward to this trip.

Bronco is running great these days. After over a month without my favorite ride, I'm enjoying driving it again. The engine is better than ever, and finally having a proper right hand side window in place, is a major plus! I can even hear music while on the move! (so horrible was the wind drag before)...

In the meantime I've bought Celeste's old bicycle to have a second one for guests (Celeste would be happy to know that her old ride is well looked after and keeps being used), and I also managed to install the bicycle rack on the Bronco (after changing the jacking ball on the back bumper, which wasn't easy, as we'd to saw the previous one). BTW I bought a Thule HangOn 3B 972, which wasn't expensive and looks reasonably well made, although I still have to work on it a little bit. I'll post some pictures of it one of these days. It looks pretty neat.

Mario and I went all the way up to... guess where... Ek Balam (yet again) to look for some unspoiled and remote dirt tracks. And boy, did we find them... The heat was quite something too. It has been a very dry winter, with hardly any rain falling at all over that region of the peninsula, and you could tell. The wind, when it blew, was really hot and dry... But it was so much fun! We even found a pretty and hidden rock track, pretty technical, to break some sweat!

We ended up jumping into the cool waters of the cenote Xcanche. It's a pretty large one. The water was a bit on the green side, but it's normal for the season.

After that we went for well deserved beers and lunch in what it must be one of my favorite restaurants in the world. El Meson del Marques, in Valladolid (really nice traditional yucatecan food, set in a beautiful colonial patio).

Can't wait to do it again. It was a really cool day out! So cool that I'm even thinking about cancelling my next weekend scuba activity, just to be able to ride again...