Alan Bloom
| Oax 1 | July 15-22 | Sat-Sat | Oaxaca (non-cycling) |
| Day 0 | July 23 | Sunday | Oaxaca to Mitla to Oaxaca |
| Oax 2 | July 24-29 | Mon-Sat | Oaxaca (non-cycling) |
| Day 1 | July 30 | Sunday | Oaxaca to Mihuatlán |
| Day 2 | July 31 | Monday | Mihuatlán to Candelaria |
| Day 3 | August 1 | Tuesday | Candelaria to Puerto Ángel |
| Day 4 | August 2 | Wednesday | Pto Ángel to Pto Escondido/Rio Grande |
| Day 5 | August 3 | Thursday | Rio Grande to Pinotepa Nacional |
| Day 6 | August 4 | Friday | Pinotepa Nacional to Cacahuatepec |
| Day 7 | August 5 | Saturday | Cacahuatepec to Putla |
| Day 8 | August 6 | Sunday | Putla |
| Day 9 | August 7 | Monday | Putla to Tlaxiaco |
| Day 10 | August 8 | Tuesday | Tlaxiaco to Teposcolula |
| Day 11 | August 9 | Wednesday | Teposcolula to Nochixtlán |
| Day 12 | August 10 | Thursday | Nochixtlán to Oaxaca |
| Oax 3 | August 11-12 | Fri-Sat | Oaxaca (non-cycling) |
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This trip report was transcribed from the hand-written diary of my trip to Mexico in 2006. I went for a two-week Spanish study program in Oaxaca city at the Instituto Cultural de Oaxaca, sponsored by the Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC), and then stayed an additional two weeks to do a self-supported bicycle tour around the state of Oaxaca.
The first two weeks of the trip did not involve cycling. I was living with a local family while studying Spanish at the Instituto. However, the main purpose of this web site is to document my bicycle tours, so I wasn't sure how much of the non-cycling part of my diary to include. I finally decided to go ahead and include most of it. Anyone not interested can just skip the portions labeled (non-cycling) in the table above.
The reason I keep mentioning prices in the report is not that I am obsessed with money but so that others reading this will have an idea of what it costs to travel in Mexico. The guidebook that I mention from time to time is Moon Handbooks' Oaxaca. It's a fat (over 475 pages), highly-detailed guidebook devoted entirely to the state of Oaxaca. The route I followed is from Bicycling Mexico by Ericka Weisbroth and Eric Ellman. It's out of date (1990) but still useful.
Last updated November 23, 2021