Camped Out In Veracruz

We did not have a great sleep in the Costco last night. At about 1:00 AM a semi pulled in right beside us and parked with his engine running. I thought, "He is letting it cool down and will turn it off soon". Well two hours later it was still running and Norma could smell the exhaust. I stumbled naked into the drivers seat and moved to the other side of the parking lot. Unfortunately, this placed a parking lot light right in my face and by the time I rearranged pillows to block it, a bit of time had passed.

We got on the road by 8:30 heading for Veracruz. Ms. Garmin wanted to take us through town but we knew of the bypass on the Libramento. Ms. Garmin protested loudly every time I ignored one of her instructions but eventually fell into line on the south side of the city. We found the El Rey RV Park and pulled in. There were no other rigs but there was a red pickup. A young man walked over to us and we discovered he spoke great English. He told us there had been only one RV in the park and he had just left so they were temporarily closing the park! He said the same owner had another facility two KM to the south that had a couple of RV parking spots.

He locked the gate behind us and lead us to the Coco Aventura just down the beach heading south. We followed him down the narrow winding road past cabins to the beach where there was room to park two large RV's. There is a water faucet to share and one 20 amp outlet (actually two but both on the same breaker). No sewer but we are only staying five days and had just dumped. There is, however, a pool and the beach! It will do. We are paying 220 pesos a night.

Jose said he did put up a sign at the El Rey and they will open up the park again if people show up.

We hooked up the StarChoice and found the signal. Jose tells us it will not be nice tomorrow but pick up again on Thursday. If is not raining tomorrow, we will head into Veracruz for my Pescado Veracruzana. If is raining we will hunker down here.



More photos later. This is off their website.