I was so happy to have made it up to Mike's Sky Ranch I figured it could only be easier on the way down, but I got a little surprise.I met two guys the night before and asked them to follow be down the road out because I was still worried about the road. I could handle to rocks, but that sand was something I never experienced before.

So, I suited up and we headed out. I had originally planned to go on to San Felipe and down the coast. However, they convinced me it was a bad idea because of the heat and the horrid conditions of the road. So, I had planned to go back to Ensenada and down the west coast.

I was a few miles from the pavement, but that last stretch to the pavement is a long stretch of sand. I was feeling good but pick up too much speed and hit something. The force instantly stopped my forward movement, threw my head through the windshield and tossed me clear of the bike. My leg was in pieces.

They lifted into the rear cab of their pickup and pushed my bike behind a push. I felt every bump of the road on the way back to Ensenada to get to a hospital.

Once at the hospital, I eventually received the bad news. A spiral fracture of the tibia running up from my ankle to the midpoint of my calf. My new friends decided that this was not something I should have done in Mexico. So I was drugged up for the ride north to San Diego. One day later I had a rod inserted into my tibia.