We stayed at La Pesca until Sunday morning.As usual the owner was great and made us feel very welcome, especially since we were the first RV of the season. He hopes more campers or cabin renters come or he may have to close it up, and it is a very nice place close to the town and the beach.
We pulled out at 6 AM under a bright full moon since it is a 9-1/2 hr, 380mi drive to the Costa Esmeralda. Right after Altamira, a few miles before the Tampico bypass, we saw the Transito police where they stopped us last year. So we were going slow and staying in the right lane, but they stopped us for a second anyway and said keep going slow in the right lane, no attempt at a bribe. On the bypass where you go over the highway overpass to start heading back North, another Transito stopped us for no apparent reason asked for my drivers license, he handed it back and said adios. Maybe it was a seat-belt check, who knows. Maybe it was the big stickers on my RV that says in Spanish. “Stop feeding the corruption, no bite” We never saw any military stops southbound at all.
We will stay at Neptuno for two nights, I looked next door at Trailer Park de Alba and it looked open but no one was there, we usually stay there but someone told us it was closed. On Tuesday morning we will head to Catemaco and Tepetepan campground. We like the friendly people there and hope that they will again have their annual Thanksgiving pot-luck dinner with the campground owner cooking up the turkeys.
I checked again and now I can connect my computer to the internet with my new card, Yea.
I admire your courage in putting up the "stop feeding the corruptiom" sticker. Have you gotten any responses from the police to the sticker? Have you seen many other vehicles sporting this sticker? I would have thought that it might stir up resentment on the part of the police if they did see it. I am happy you made it to Catemaco without a bribery incident, though. I have heard that the Tampico bypass is a notorious place to be stopped for a bribe by other RV travelers.
ReplyDeleteMy partner and I would love to follow your footsteps but have been scared off by the cartel violence. If we had another RV to caravan with we would feel safer about traveling along the gulf coast to the Mayan RIviera. I LOVE the ocean there. We loved looking at your account of your travels last year.