February 3, 2008
Campeche (Club Nautico)
Today was the most beautiful of all our drives after an eventful start. Hex , our tail gunner, thumps tires early in morning to make sure all are safe and discovered a bulge on Allen?s fifth wheel tire. Terry assisted by crawling under the fifth wheel and supplying a socket to retrieve the spare tire. So the question is, how many new clean shirts does it take to change a tire? Answer= 2. By the way this tire was 5 years old.
Once under way the first 100 yards of travel resulted in a motorcycle taxi blocking the road and requiring some tricky maneuvers by rigs to round the glorietas on the wrong side of the road, or go up over the curb, or turn right onto a street designed for pedestrians only. Each of these options was taken by some of the rigs. From then it was an easy drive with but one main turn of the day. (Two in our group managed to miss that only turn of the day) Now we all laugh about our course corrections!
If you picture the Gulf of Mexico as a giant letter C , we were at the bottom of the C today and traveled North. We passed through two military checkpoints and then traveled on a very good road for miles with the turquoise waters of the gulf to our left. White sandy beaches, palm trees and miles of uninhabited shores were those of National Geographic beauty. We watched big pelicans dive for their meals in the seas. We traveled through a few little picturesque towns that advertised shrimp cocktails but we had no good place to pull over and stop in a 40-foot motor home. We passed through only one toll booth today. Can you figure out the amount we were to pay for a 40 foot single axle motorhome with NO toad?
When we arrived at our destination, Club Nautico, we found a very manicured park with the best of both worlds, a beautiful pool and the beach. I ordered my first Pina colada of the trip as they did not serve any margaritas. Go figure? it is Mexico. Terry ordered a huge shrimp cocktail poolside. We swam, we bathed in the sun and later we had a Superbowl Party in the recreation room. The game was on a very small TV and only in Spanish so after dinner was served Terry and I adjourned to the comfort of our motorhome, 37 inch TV and it was in English. We are able to get a few Direct TV stations.
Statistics:
Motorhome Miles Driven: 107
Temperatures: High 90 Low 73 Humidity 71%
GPS Coordinates: N 19 46.41 W 90 38.51