Back into Mexico…

We’ve been on the road in Mexico now for a week, we crossed the border on Nov. 7th and today is Nov. 13th. The first travel day we went to a small town right on the Caribbean coast named La Pesca and stayed right there on the beach for 3 days. It’s a Mexican tourist destination and the beach we stopped at has hosted as many as 70,000 on vacation weekends. But it was nearly deserted while we were there.

The first set of pics is of three of our four rigs and the RV park we stayed at in Mission, Texas:

This next picture is of two of the group members, Woody on the chair and Sam there in the foreground. Woody was born in Panama, joined the US Marines there and spent his 30 year career in the US. He has a thick accent, speaks Spanish first and English second and is driving back to Panama to visit all his relatives. He wanted to travel with us for a while since he had never driven an RV in Mexico and wanted to know the ropes.

Sam was born in Colombia, moved to New York at 1 & 1/2 and speaks both Brooklynese (though she grew up on Long Island) and Spanish. She is traveling down to a remote place in the Yucatan to stay a few months and maybe take a management job, if it’s offered.

Not shown is Kathe, she’s a land owner in Mexico and has been across the border at least 20 times, speaks fluent Spanish and English and will be trying to sell homes on her property to women that would like to retire down in Mexico.

We’re all traveling together to sort of help each other along with accumulated knowledge and mutual assistance.

Our first stop inside Mexico after we passed the border and border checks, this is what passes as a rest stop, we had lunch here. That’s Kathe there in the middle of the picture and her rig behind:

Just a random shot of the roadway and the typical flora and fauna, lot’s of moisture in this area. Nothing like the West coast of Mexico at this latitude, which is basically a desert:

Late in the day we arrive at the beach in La Pesca for some boondocking:

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Just a shot of my rig:

Then the jetty:

Then there is that finger of ocean water that was creeping up the beach while we wandered around, and patterns of wetness all the way up the beach. There was a friend of Kathe’s that came by and told us the dredging done recently in the channel was causing this problem, so we move to another nearby beach:

Here was my first overnight boondocking place:

And a general shot of the area, note that on busy weekends there are nearly 70,000 Mexicans here, obviously, this is the off season for this beach. If you look carefully you’ll see all those little grass covered shelters in the picture all the way up the beach. They’re rented for $50 pesos per day:

After settling in a little, I wandered over to the beach, it’s around 100 yards from where I parked, and took the following four pictures. It’s sunset and these are mostly looking somewhat east:

As you can see from my shadow, I’m very tall:

Dawn the next morning:

Still dawn, but you can see there are some tourists, Sam & Woody. We did see a lot of Mexicans drop by. In fact we helped a family that had dropped their car alarm remote into the ocean, so they couldn’t get their SUV started to drive home. I silenced the siren and Sam was able to activate the starter with the same secret procedure as works with her alarm. We got hugs:

That’s Kathe’s little 4 wheel drive runabout. I added a little hidden switch to deactivate it so a bad guy would have trouble hot wiring it:

A couple days later and we leave the beach and pass through La Pesca. It’s a typical little town of 3000 near the beach: