Monday, March 18, 2013

Internet Again

We are finally out of that electronic sink hole on the Emerald Coast! Carlos Slim would do his customers a huge favor if he invested in a couple of towers along that stretch! It was so frustrating! I could read my mail but the signal was too weak to send a reply. My Blog would post using Windows Live Writer but not using Blogger. I could read the comments but not respond. Facebook worked for about two minutes once. And all this was after driving a few KM to the coffee shop and parking across the street, it would not work form the coffee shop.

Anyway! We left at 10:00 this morning and headed north, thinking we would park for the night is a small, closed restaurant near Tampico. We found the restaurant but they have fenced off the entrance, making it inaccessible. We continued on, looking for a suitable Pemex or other good spots but were out of luck. We arrived at the Pemex on the outskirts of Tampico where we had to make the u-turn to get onto the truck route but there was no room to park there. The next Pemex was not in a very nice neighborhood and it was right where trucks started gearing down for a detour, so that was out.

We got onto Mex 70 and found a nice quiet Pemex with a huge parking lot that actually has a Federali office off to the side.I walked over to tip the pump guys and found one of them speaks English! He asked where we were heading and I said, "Canada". He laughed and said it was much too cold there and we should stay in Mexico.

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  1. "Canada". He laughed and said it was much too cold there and we should stay in Mexico.

    He's right!

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  2. VERY cold! You'll just have to hang around with us in the USA for a bit! It's pretty nice here in New Braunfels --- 33C today!

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  3. It was 109 F just inland from Tampico!

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  4. It is definitely hard to be without internet services when we are so accustomed to it.

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  5. Cold, rain and ice here in the mid-west, we left Mexico at least three weeks too early.

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  6. 95 here in Texas, but will be in Canada in about three weeks, still too cold there, but......

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  7. That is a difficult area to find a place to overnight. Makes for a long day.

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  8. Frost this morning, but every day seems a little warmer here in the lower mainland...
    Safe travels!

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