Motorcycle Mexico 2026 Day 7
February 27, 2026
We got up around seven again after another night of good sleep. Letitia made us another great breakfast, then we said our goodbyes. It took a while - we didn’t get on the road until ten thirty.
We headed north and east and stopped in Tlalpujahua to look at the church and main plaza there.
Gustavo remembered there was a Christmas Village in the town and we walked toward where he thought it was, but we didn’t find it. It was hot, so we turned around and stopped for a Coke at a restaurant on the main plaza. We got back on the bikes and rode a few blocks further than we walked and found the Christmas Village - it looked like it was open, but we didn’t stop.
We got back on the road and stopped for lunch at Aculco. A plate of five small but delicious tacos al pastor at Julio’s Taqueria was only 85 pesos, less than five dollars.
We followed some smaller roads to avoid the toll highway. Before the lunch stop we came down from a ridge into a big valley and found a sequence of descending hairpin turns with hardly any straight in between them - that was really fun! Later we ended up taking some definite back roads - narrow and very rural.
We spent the whole day traveling across wide valleys and going over ridges of small mountains to the next one. Eventually we neared our destination for the night, as well as some bigger mountains.
We checked in to the Hotel Casona Marshei in Tasquillo and got a huge room.
The hotel has a lot of interesting artwork in the rooms and in the hallways. We washed up a bit and then walked around town a little bit, eventually finding COBA, a great patio restaurant only because Gustavo found it on Google Maps. From the street it just looks like an entry to some parking in the back or something, but instead you find yourself in a small patio with a big pizza oven. The owner and crew are friendly and the pizza was among the best I’ve had.
