The next morning I got up before sunrise to avoid being discovered. I was still tired …

… but everything worked out well and I could pack up my tent and and everything else without being seen.

In town everything opened after 10am so I still had a lot of time left before I could go to the tourist information office to ask about Maestro Leone and his work. Besides the fantastic scenery as mentioned before one of the reasons why I wanted to come to this area of Spain was that the great western movies, in particular the Spaghetti Westerns of the 60s and 70s have been shot here.

In the mean time I rode through the little lanes of the town during sunrise. The beautiful warm yellow tint of the morning sun was a good trade-of for not getting enough sleep.

On my stroll I discovered that unfortunately the vibrations from riding off-road had cost me a screw of one of the hand guards. Nothing a zip-tie couldn’t fix though.

Prior to leaving London I had read that San Jose was the location of some scenes of “A fist full of Dollars” but later at the tourist information office nobody had heard of San Jose having been the shooting location of any movies whatsoever. However they gave me some flayers advertising three separate western towns farther north which I happily added to my checkpoint list.

I didn’t want to give up San Jose just yet and after some internetting I found what I had been looking for.

I had actually already passed it twice but hadn’t known what to look for. The off-road track to the beach had a right turn which I hadn’t paid any attention to earlier. This time however I did.

My disappointment was big when I saw the “not trespassing, no driving” sign. It was private property.

I had already turned around when I reconsidered my decision. I hadn’t come this far just to turn around now, as they would say in the movies. So I parked the bike further down the main road and walked across the flat plane towards a building which I could see in the distance.

Along a little path I found this platform. Though this particular one wasn’t part of any western movies I know, platforms like these often appeared in them. Unfortunately I don’t know exactly what they are for but seeing this got me excited for what I might find next.

This was it! The house where Monco (Clint Eastwood) was busting out one of Indio’s men from prison in Sergio Leones western from 1965 “For A Few Dollars More”.

For the movie they had extended the top floor to be able to blow a whole into it but other than that it’s still the same building and still in use.

Finding this place in the middle of nowhere thousands of miles from where I started my journey was a great feeling and I took a minute to enjoy the moment before I got back on my bike in order to not disturb the people who might be living there any longer.