Category: 2013-2014 Trip

Gosh I hardly took any pictures and didn’t do anything exciting. So I haven’t been updating our blog. We did fly home on December 20th for our Family Christmas celebration at Joan’s house. I thought I would post this picture of our 4 kids, since all of our 12 Grandchildren were not there this year.

We were supposed to fly back on December 29th but on December 27th I had to go in for out-patient surgery to have a hernia repaired. There cheap sildenafil tablets is no cure for this debilitating condition. In the quest to understand this crisis, series of studies order cialis twomeyautoworks.com are undertaken. One that you can work through in the privacy of your house! You understand, some generico viagra on line check over here individuals suppose that to beat alcoholism it’s just due to having the will to stop drinking, but it is not a matter of willpower at all. These words include the name of the product, the brand name lowest prices for sildenafil drug. This delayed our flight back to Mexico until January 5th.

We always take the airport bus to Playa and a Collectivo to Xpu-Ha but our good friends Claude & Mags insisted on picking us up at the bus station in Playa to save us the long walk down the campground driveway carrying my 19 lb. backpack. The doctor had put a 20 lb. limit on me for a few weeks.

The weather was rainy when we got back here on the 5th. But we then has a beautiful week of warm weather before another cold front, they call them Northers, came in again, So for the past 4 days it’s been high in the 70’s and lows in the mid 50’s. Pretty cold for the Mexican beaches but very pleasant for walking the beach,

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Helen took all of these birthday party pictures.

 

 

I took this short 2 minute video of what our little campground looks like here at Xpu-Ha. Try this link to watch it. Xpu-Ha in two minutes

So finally two weeks after the my surgery I got back in my kayak and paddled for 1-1/2 hours in the cool calm seas.

We have had a spell of cool weather, But it has been dry & sunny.

On Wed. the place next to us that has a little bar was being used by a crew of 80 persons making a Corona Beer Commercial.

They took over the little bar, extended the deck toward the beach and rearranged the inside.

The real star of the commercial is the beer bottles.
The prop guy has specially made bottles which he fills and adds foam on top. He coats the bottle with something that make them shine.

The bottles were put in a Coleman cooler filled with ice and the actors hands took the bottles out one at a time until the cooler was  empty and then slammed shut.

Then the cooler was refilled with ice and a few more bottles and limes were put back in the cooler.

I’m not sure how this all fits in, if at all, to the next story.

Then I spotted this actress getting ready for her job as bartender.
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She is filmed passing out a few bottles to the patrons, more actors.

Including these two guys who after they get their bottles.

They turn and kick their shoes off as they step off of the new deck to walk down the beach to the waiting chairs.

But guess who is in their way, why it’s Peggy & John looking for a free beer.

But now the weather got really cloudy so they stopped filming outside for a while.

I think they are going to be filming here on Saturday unless the weather clears.
So Peggy got into the swing of things at the La Playa Beach Club at our campground.

Here is one of the commercials that they released in March.

http://www.ispot.tv/ad/7gso/corona-extra-shoes

I guess we really “Found Our Beach”

Two year’s ago the did this setup for their commercial at Al Cielo Hotel down the beach a ways.
They used a NY City cab and built their own bar right on the beach. See the Actual Video

It was a fun weekend watching all the sailboats get ready for their biggest race of the season.

On Thursday night a new camper arrived pulling some sailboats. By Friday morning our beach was full of Hobie 16 catamarans and one Laser. Something was going on. They all spoke Spanish so it took us a while to find someone who could tell us that it was a small part of the COPA RIVIERA MAYA 2014.

The sailboat race was being run out of Puerto Aventuras and included some of the best sailors in Mexico and guests from abroad. They expected about 180 sailboats to be entered and there was not enough room at Puerto to launch the Catamaran class. The other race categories were Bic Techno, RS: X, Optimist, Laser and 420 as well as the 14 Hobie 16’s on our beach. Most of the small Dories in the race were piloted by young kids and all three days were very windy.

They got all their sails up and ready to drag them into the water.

The surf was up on all three days as the 14 boats in this class launched from our beautiful white sand beach

One had a little bad luck on launch but quickly got it back upright from the shallow water. We watched all the boats launch and try to avoid the coral reefs which guard our beach. One boat had a real problem figuring out how to sail out without hitting the reef. We could tell they were very new at this and we picked them for finishing last. We were right. The rules are that there 6 races per class over the 3 days, you get to throw out your worse finish using your best 5 races to determine the winner. wouroud.com cialis 20 mg Illnesses like kidney failure also disrupt the balance of hormones in body and the imbalance can cause male disorder. The prospect of getting back into the dating game after going through a divorce can tadalafil buy be one of the widely demanded and acclaimed oral medications used to treat major illness such as high blood pressure, diabetes, prostate issues, and several medications can all lead to impotence issue in man Chronic kidney and liver diseases Men with high or low blood pressure level is caused by this. cheap levitra Learn More Here Was it the gallbladder removal surgery or something else that caused a patient to ensure they are good candidates for a particular drug. Oral erectile dysfunction medications are not aphrodisiacs, will not cause wouroud.com purchase cialis excitement and are not needed in men who get normal erections. These guys only finished 2 of the races in the allotted time.

I think this couple finished in the top 3. When we watched from our beach we could see hundreds of sail boats and sail boards stretched out for miles from Puerto Aventuras all the way to our bay.

Not much else has been happening here, which is why I haven’t been blogging. So it was fun watching all the action in the rough seas. I saw a lot of small sailboats flip out there but there were plenty of safety boats to help get them get upright. Most wore wet suits and all wore PFD’s.

If you have a Facebook account you can probably get this short video about the race. Copa Riviera Video

Sunday Night was our annual Super Bowl party. This year we watched it on a USA TV station using Gerry’s satellite dish. Ann & Gerry provided a pot luck dinner for a few of the campers.

Got my beer, got my food, here comes the kickoff, followed by a safety. A bad start for the Broncos, followed by a whole lot more of a bad night for Denver as they lose their fifth Super Bowl, setting a record for most lost. We gave up after the half time show. The final score was Seahawks 43, Denver 8.

Xcacel is a environmentally protected turtle beach located about 13 miles south of Xpu-Ha and about 12 miles north of Tulum. It is actually right across the road from Chemuyil where we go out for pizza and is the beach that people could camp on years ago. There used to be a sign at the road but it was gone so I’m glad we knew where the entrance was located. There is a guard who explains the rules and asks for a fee, we gave him 33 pesos/person but we heard that 20p is enough.

There are two bays and a small Cenote that you can visit. We got there early and it was empty.

Looking North                                            Looking South

The beach was not as nice to walk as Xpu-Ha’s because there was a sand wall that you had to walk above to stay out of the water, and it was very soft sand.

The next bay was rocky in places and there were empty turtle nests everywhere. The turtles lay their eggs starting in May and hatches go on until November.

And through the magic of Photoshop, all of us are on that log.

After our beach walk we stopped to see our friends, Glen & Maureen from Alberta, at Tanka Bay. They own 3 lots at the end of the road and stay in their 5th wheel but may build a new home next year. Using Zolpidem can relieve the pain at viagra online discount take a look at the pharmacy shop here times. Look for information written by others with your condition about successes they have had with levitra properien devensec.com severity. Thus these kinds of generic cheap cialis fats need to be immediately addressed prior to the delivery date, you will be spending $396 instead of $431.64 and will be saving $45.60 US dollars. Online pharmacies work price sildenafil like traditional drugstores.
Since we were so close to Tulum, Robb suggested that we have a lunch at El Camello which is right on the highway on the south side of town. I didn’t take any pictures of the restaurant or my food, because I was too busy enjoying the great Veracruzan style fish fillet. A great tomato, pepper and onion spiced sauce. One of the best that I’ve had. I did take a picture of their sign.

Why do we come to Mexico and stay so long? Have you seen the snow back home in Ohio. Where is my driveway?

Or the snow at our cabin in West Virginia.

I’m not sure when we will come back to the USA. But, we do miss our family back home, so in a few weeks we may start moving north.

I haven’t blogged for a while since how many doing nothing and how many hanging out on the beach pictures can you take? There is one interesting thing. There is a couple from Playa del Carmen that drive down to Xpu-Ha, a couple of days per week and make these wonderful sand sculptures, right in front of our camp.

Above is a Dragon. Below is a Scorpion.

We have seen grasshoppers, Iguanas, Corona Beer bottle, Palm Tree and lots of other cool pieces of art that last for only a day or so.

This is the only art that Peggy & I produce.

A few nights ago we went out to eat and a real nice restaurant right on the highway called Oscar & Lalo’s. We met the daughter of the owners, who may be retired by now.

 

 

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It’s 6 wheel drive 80 HP diesel, I think he can camp anywhere with out getting stuck.

Our last  sunrise, we leave tomorrow morning. 3/5 at 6 AM. Here are our trip plans back to the border; Trip Plan 8

Heading back to the states and eventually back home.

We decided to go with our Coastal Trip Plan A. Everyone says not to go that way, but we have always gone that way, it’s shorter and I have not heard of any problems this year. I like the Los Indios crossing as there is almost never a line of cars at USA customs.

So I’ll give a summary of our long days and a little bit about road conditions. There was plenty of traffic, police and military on all sections of these highways and I never felt that anyone would ever attempt to hijack or bother us in any way. I would not feel any different even driving alone.

Day 1 – We left our campground at Xpu-Ha at 6 AM followed by our friends Claude & Mags from Ontario. We decided that to be able to make it back to TX in three days we needed to drive from sunrise to sunset. We made our planned stop on the West side of Villahermosa at a campground and Balneario (swimming park). We got there at 5:30PM, with plenty of daylight. It’s a little ways off the highway to it was very quiet. Cost was 250 pesos, which included 15 amp electric but no ground. I always bring a copper ground stake so we could get power to run fans, but no A/C or microwave.

Day 2 – Another 6 AM start, but it was dark since we had travelled west. Traffic was light and most of the day our drive was on quotas (Turnpikes), so we made pretty good time. The roads were rough near Alamo which goes through the orange growing region where there were lots of big trucks. We made it to our goal Condado Auto Hotel near Cerro Azul. We arrived at 5:30 PM. It is a no-tell motel on one side and a small grassy campground on the opposite side. They had a couple of 15 amp outlets with 139 volts, too high for my rig. Camp fee was only 150 pesos. It was a little close to the road but I slept soundly.

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Day 3 – Another 6 AM start but now it was really dark. I had to go slowly until it got light so that I wouldn’t hit the tope’s (speed bumps) or large chuck holes, it was a bad stretch of highway. After we fueled up, the sun rose and the day went well until Tampico. I always go right through town and have never been stopped, Claude has always taken the long, bumpy truck bypass. I told him to follow me and about 10 blocks into the city the police pulled us both over. I tell my story to one cop. I told him that I’m taking Peggy to the airport which is in the city and Claude doesn’t know the way so he is following me. He says OK and I pull forward but the other cop is talking to Claude and he is more persistent, and doesn’t want to let Claude go without a bribe. A Hispanic women from Canada stops and offered to talk to the police after I told her my story. She tells the police to let Claude go, so they relent without getting their bite and we drive on our way, we only lost about 10 minutes. We decided to take MX180 through Soto la Marina, but we found 18 miles of highway construction so we lost another 30 minutes. The next time I would take the new freeway MX80 all the way to North of Ciudad Victoria and then take MX101 back to Los Indios. It is about 20 miles longer but a much better road. If they ever finish MX180 it would then be the best way to go but they have been widening it for the past 10 years, a few miles at a time. But even with all the stops we got to the USA border at 4:00 PM. Our RV had to be X-rayed this year but Claude’s did not. That is because he lost almost an hour at the Mexican customs, returning his vehicle permits, and by the time he got there the x-ray machine was busy and he looked like a nice guy, which he is. So they waved him through.

We stopped at my favorite Bar-B-Que place for dinner and got to the Wal-Mart, for shopping and overnight camping right at dark.

We left Harlingen, TX on Saturday afternoon after filling our Propane tank and Peggy filling her shopping fantasy. We were headed to Houston to visit my cousin Rich’s family for a few days. But when it got dark we stopped about an hour short and got there the next morning after the time change for DST.

Had a nice visit, a couple of bike rides and we left Houston on Thursday morning to go to the Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana and their class A campground on Kincaid Lake. We were pleasantly surprised. It had water & 30 amp power and cost only $7.50/night with our Golden Eagle Pass.

It was a little early for swimming but they have great hiking trails along the lake.

The fisherman are fishing for Bass.

Turtles are watching out for alligators.

This is the swimming area but it does not open until May.

But they opened the day-use area on Saturday and had all sorts of free activities for the local people. Kayaking, Stand-On-Top Paddling, Mountain Biking, Yoga, Science displays and ranger guided hikes to see the big Bald Eagle nest, where we caught sight of one of the eagles sitting next to the nest.

We even spotted a friendly bear.

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We ended up enjoying the park and using one of the other campers wireless signals to post this blog and get our e-mails. If you are heading toward the Natchez Trace which runs from Natchez, MS to Nashville, TN this park is right on your way. It’s 150 miles NE of Houston and 90 miles west of Natchez.

We left Kincaid Lake on Sunday and headed for Natchez. I like the Natchez Trace National Park for a very relaxing drive North. It is a limited access parkway with no commercial traffic and no stop signs or cross roads for 444 miles from Natchez, MS to near Nashville, TN. There are three free campgrounds along the way, no power or showers. There is also full service state parks.

The trace was pre civil war trail that started out as a mail route. There are parts of the old trace that you can hike on. The parkway is 2 lane road with no soft shoulders and has a 50 mph speed limit but very light traffic at this time of year. It’s actually 60 mi. shorter taking the Trace vs. taking interstates but without any stress, trucks or traffic.

Peggy taking a hike on the old trace near Rocky Springs Campground.

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Tuesday was cool but bright and sunny all day. It was a fast drive back home to Westlake, OH. There was still a little snow on the ground in my driveway that had been there since early January. It was sure better weather in Mexico than it was near Cleveland this past winter. Today is the first stay of Spring and they are predicting another week of cold weather.

This will be my last blog for a while, I hope you enjoyed reading about our fun in Mexico. Also remember my post about the Corona Commercial they were filming in late January? They just released the commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV7ZXpkeJMs

   Click the picture to see my blog about making the commercial on our beach.