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.