beemerdons
Certifiable Old Fart
Wowser Bill, now that I know that Bungie LOVES riding tunnels, I have the perfect place that we can take him to: The Mining Tunnel of Real de Catorce! This is in Central Mexico and I rode it two years ago with my Mexico Riding Buddy Senor Brian "El Jefe" Boles. Real de Catorce means The Royal Fourteen, honoring the 14 Mexican Colonial soldiers killed by the local Indian tribes in the 16th Century. This El Ciudad was built on the silver riches, now it operates on Tourism and Peyote!
The old route into the city was over the top of the mountains on foot and by burro until by accident one mine tunnel broke into another and Los Mexicanos discovered they could go under the mountain using the tunnel systems.
Like most engineering done down in Mexico, the key word is that they succeeded by accident, rather than by design. So, you now have a four mile long tunnel with rough rock sides and a stream running through it. Stevie will absolutely love this one if he is a tunnel freak. What makes this one even better is that while your Iceland tunnel is run by Vikings, the Real de Catorce Mining Tunnel is run by "Los Borrachos" - Drunken Mexicans.
Imagine this scene: Since the tunnel is so very narrow it is only one-way at a time, running for an hour at a time in one direction only. So, at the Sur or South end of the tunnel you have a drunken Mexican sitting on a Corona Cerveza wooden crate with a walkie-talkie in one hand and a bottle of Tequila in the other - just for the sake of illustration let's call this Caballero - HotRodZilla.
Then at the Norte or North end of the tunnel you have another drunken Mexican sitting on a front seat taken out of an early fifties Chevy pickup truck. This Hombre, let's call him Patch308, has another walkie-talkie in one hand and a bottle of Mezcal in the other hand. But Patch308 is luckier than HotRodZilla, Suerte en Espanol, because sitting on either side of him are dos Las Putas; two whores flirting with him and offering him a hand job. NOTE: It cost 100 pesos, I asked Lupe!
Tis MEX Tunnel Traffic Control - Vato Loco Style. God, I truly love riding a motorcycle down in Mexico; every turn en El Camino makes me laugh at something that unfolds in front of your wheel.
So Bill, is this one right up Bungie's alley?
The old route into the city was over the top of the mountains on foot and by burro until by accident one mine tunnel broke into another and Los Mexicanos discovered they could go under the mountain using the tunnel systems.
Like most engineering done down in Mexico, the key word is that they succeeded by accident, rather than by design. So, you now have a four mile long tunnel with rough rock sides and a stream running through it. Stevie will absolutely love this one if he is a tunnel freak. What makes this one even better is that while your Iceland tunnel is run by Vikings, the Real de Catorce Mining Tunnel is run by "Los Borrachos" - Drunken Mexicans.
Imagine this scene: Since the tunnel is so very narrow it is only one-way at a time, running for an hour at a time in one direction only. So, at the Sur or South end of the tunnel you have a drunken Mexican sitting on a Corona Cerveza wooden crate with a walkie-talkie in one hand and a bottle of Tequila in the other - just for the sake of illustration let's call this Caballero - HotRodZilla.
Then at the Norte or North end of the tunnel you have another drunken Mexican sitting on a front seat taken out of an early fifties Chevy pickup truck. This Hombre, let's call him Patch308, has another walkie-talkie in one hand and a bottle of Mezcal in the other hand. But Patch308 is luckier than HotRodZilla, Suerte en Espanol, because sitting on either side of him are dos Las Putas; two whores flirting with him and offering him a hand job. NOTE: It cost 100 pesos, I asked Lupe!
Tis MEX Tunnel Traffic Control - Vato Loco Style. God, I truly love riding a motorcycle down in Mexico; every turn en El Camino makes me laugh at something that unfolds in front of your wheel.
So Bill, is this one right up Bungie's alley?
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