Miles 2559,  Days total 70,  Days off 20, Total Accumulative Ascent 45,000m

The red line is our cycle route and the dashed red line is a ferry ride from the Baja Peninsula to the mainland.  There are two dotted blue lines for side-trips by bus - one to meet Beth's parents at Puerto Vallarta and the other a trip into the centre of Puebla.  Cycling down the Baja Peninsula there is effectively only one practical route to take with other roads being of low standard.  The road crosses between the sides of the peninsula a number of times but is mainly inland from the shore.  We made the decision to cycle the full length of the Peninsula to Cabo San Lucas for completeness before taking the ferry from La Paz to the mainland.  On the mainland we cycled south east along the Pacific coast before heading up into the highlands at Tepic.  The road through the highlands took us through Guadalajara and the Mexico City Valley to Oaxaca before dropping steeply back down to the hot Pacific coastal lowlands from where we entered Guatemala.