This Mextrek will differ from previous iones due to our riding mostly on larger adventure bikes. Some folks will surely travel to Mission, spend the night, and cross there in the morning. It's comfortable. Our host Hotel, Clarion Mission, allows for parking of trucks and trailers for the duration of our trips. It is in a quiet neighborhood, safe hotel, and mostly behind a big wrought iron fence and dense vegetation. No issues there to date.
However, my thought for this event is to have 2 groups of riders, one in San Antonio, and one in Houston, departing Saturday morning. The ride from the border to Santiago is fairly easy, not more than 2.5 or 3 hours of pavement, and I think a group of 10 or so can easily cross Texas, get permits, and make Santiago by nightfall. Spending a Friday overnight in Mission burns time and has previously been done mainly so we can get a large group of slow bikes to Galeana by sunset on Saturday. Surprisingly, sunset can be a difficult goal to achieve. This trip should be much faster and smoother with bigger bikes and less riders in smaller groups, with a chase vehicle (from San Antonio).
If Mission works for you, awesome, there will probably be 5 or 8 folks leaving there Saturday morning. If its more convenient, make plans to either depart San Antonio or Houston on Saturday early AM with one of our groups. We should
have plenty of truck / trailer options in both cities.
In San Antonio we don't have firm plans, but something always fills the void when there is a need...
In Houston, Mark has offered his amazing "Pit Stop" office / bike museum / car museum / race center for all Houston guests. He has showers, highly secure parking for tons of trucks, and tools and bike lifts etc... on site. Anyone doing a long out of town slog should take him up on the offer of crashing on a sofa there Friday night. I'll be starting my trip there if all goes to plan. Hs place....