Sam And Saundra's Year Long Adventure - Part 60

Sam And Saundra’s Year Long Adventure – Part 60

Mexico 

3/2/09  - Villahermosa (again) – El Gordo Y San Pedro RV Park

Yes – we have been in Villahermosa before.  At the fairgrounds.  None of us wanted to come back – but again the promises and so far…

Travel Day

We leave Pelenque, where eight other languages are spoken besides Spanish.  Tseltal is the main language and most public information is written in Tseltal, then Spanish.  We travel 94 miles on roads that do look familiar.  This time we pass the fairgrounds, wave at the guards out front, and continue on through a residential area.  When we connect with another Mexico freeway, we turn right.  We follow this road to a picture of a guy swimming and turn right – it is suppose to go to the RV park.  The ‘driveway’ is a narrow dirt road that has tightly packed housing on the right and a graveyard for the massive number of vehicles damaged in the last flood on the left. The insurance company was located on the last corner. The area looks like a dump. The RV park was very pretty once we were able to maneuver our trailer into a space. There was no electric, water or sewer service available, although the bare wires were ready to go into the trench that was already dug. It has at least three large swimming pools and their major income is from the locals paying to use the pools.

Oh You Know!

The plan is to leave our rigs here and travel overnight to the high country and stay in a hotel tomorrow. First, most of us go the La Venta /Olmec museum in Villahermosa.  This museum has some of the original artifacts, although the major ones, including the Olmec Heads are in Mexico City.  We unload and carpool (Des and Arlene came with us this time) to the museum. When we get there, we all take off in different directions.  One large indoor building provides overall information, including the Olmecs. There are also displays of copies of the stone-carved Olmec heads. We then go on an outdoor self-guided walkabout tour.  It included the artifacts from the Olmecs, with explanations – pretty extensive. It also had live gators, Jaguars, birds, raccoon look-alikes and more.  It was a great museum, but we tire easily (We were there 2-3 hours).  After all, it was a travel day.  We were not too tired to do some shopping at Walmart. Figure that one.  We celebrate Klaus’ birthday.  He picked out his own cake – and although it was not a 3 leche chocolate cake, it was very good.  We went to bed.  Tired