Blogs from Veracruz, Mexico, North America

After straining my legs on the mountain bike, i decided to head for the home town of Salma Hayek. This is a small town in the state of Veracruz, that is well known for.... umm well nothing really.. but made a friend there so thought i would visit. Spent the 1st day wandering around the beach being a tourist taking lots of photos. It amazed me how dirty the beach was, in the distance you have a beautiful landscape of mountains and sea, yet right infront of your eyes the beach is full of rubbish. I was told tht its becuase of the fact its rainy sason, so the rubbish gets carried down to the beach, (from the streets), was a shame, didnt make me want to go in the water at all. Maybe if they ... read more

I stayed two days in a campground called "La Jugla" on the shore of lake Catemaco. They tell me that "Medicine Man" and "Apocalyto" were filmed here and I don't doubt that because it is such a fantastic jungle setting. I didn't have to drive far to get here but it was pretty brutal. I almost bailed on trying to find the campground because I had a hard time finding the entrance and it got a lot worse after that. The so called "road" into this place was little more than a path through the jungle that inexplicably split a couple of times. I had GPS coordinates to aim at but my GPS promptly lost its way under the thick canopy. The birds, monkeys, and something that sounded like R2-D2 started mocking me when I stopped ... read more

I had a relatively easy day yesterday. I visited the ruin of Tajin early in the morrning. As it happens, I got there 10 minutes before the gates opened so I was a little worried to find a completely deserted parking lot. The other strangeness is that there was a huge field of (mostly identical) tents set up just outside the gates plus many more tents along the driveway leading to the parking lot. It turns out that there was some kind of a concert the night before. I can only think it must have been quite the spectacle to see a concert in this unique setting of ancient pyramids and the like. I kinda wish that I could have seen that but it was probably chaos. The site was spectacular enough in it's own right. ... read more

I stayed an extra day at La Pesca because I liked it there and because I was tired. I drove today until I started to lose daylight and took the first hotel I ran across. It's not a bad place or very expensive so I got lucky as far as that goes. The dreaded "check engine" light came on somewhere along the way so that's not so lucky. I'm not sure what I should do about that since I haven't seen another Silly Scion since Texas. I did check and the engine is still there so that's that for that, I guess. I have to leave this blog to get something to eat. I didn't eat anything all day except for some coconut dusted in some kind of spicy cocoa. This I got from a woman ... read more

3 Tage Karneval in Veracruz - hier einige Eindruecke... Unter anderem gab's ein Live-Konzert von Don Omar zu bestaunen.... read more

To Joaquin Canchola Limón and his family: Thank you very much for your very warm welcome and the great days out at Piedra Grande Hut with climbing Pico de Orizaba. You’ll find some photos for download. Anyone who would like to climb the highest mountain of Mexico, too, I can recommend you the climber hostel of Joaquin and his family. Joaquin drives you to Piedra Grande Hut at 4.260 m and he has also clean and reasonable priced rooms for stays overnight in Tlachichuca. Here is his address: Joaquin Canchola Limón Av. 3 Pte No. C.P. 75050 Tlachichuca Puel Tel./Fax 011(52)2454515082 cancholashouse@yahoo.com.mx ... read more