Lessons Learned, Lessons Ignored, etc

All right Children, now that the class has reviewed the adventures of the Dear Leader and his followers, it is time to make a list of the lessons the group learned.  Or not.

1.  Drink the water.   In big cities.  No problems.  Well, Joe did have a bit of a poopy diaper, as a young child said years ago, but only for one day.  And who can prove it was the water?

2.   Six bikes is a fine number, but progress is much slower than two or three bikes, so don't try to go quite so each day.

3.  Make certain you are physically fit.  Anyone can sit on a motorcycle.  Not everyone can hold one up, or walk up stairs, or carry luggage. 

4.  Don't believe the lady inside the GPS unit.  She must be a shopaholic, because she never, ever, EVVVER chooses a route around a city (known as a "loop" or "shortcut") but instead sends everyone straight to the center of every city, town, and village.  Where the stores and vendors are.

5.  Do not worry about head choppings-off.  It is highly unlikely to occur, and if it does you will be immortalized amongst family and friends with the phrase, accompanied by a tearful smile and maybe a shake of the head "He (she) died doing what he (she) loved to do."

6.  Bike-to-bike communicators would be very useful, but reduce the adventure quotient by several orders of magnitude.  They would, however, lower the Dear Leader's frustration level at times, with concomitant increases in some followers' IQ levels.

7.  Learn to enjoy the arguments among two or more Mexicans when you ask directions and they, literally, without exaggeration, point in opposite directions and begin the arguments.

8.  Do NOT, let me repeat, do NOT, pee in the street or on a sidewalk.  Would you do that at home?

9.  It would be a good idea to not forget the guidebook.

10.  Most important lesson learned:  go.  Yes, go to Mexico.  Be not afraid.  Go places others don't.  Skip Cancun, go to Merida; by all means go to places like Cuernavaca (City of Eternal Spring), Guanajuato, Puebla, Xilitla, Queretaro, etcetaro.  You will be richly rewarded.

11.  To sum up:  don't pee in the street, be physically fit, quit worrying about head choppers, give the gas station guys a little tip, drink the water.  Pretty simple, really.

Any other lessons or suggestions?  Comment.