Day 74 Costa Esmeralda Mexico

Day 74: Catemaco -> Coasta Esmeralda, MX
Today was a travel day to continue our trek home. Before we left though, many of us got to meet the Church’s, authors of a series of camping books. (We used their Alaska Camping book last summer and it was a wonderful help). The Church’s had come into the park last night.
We left at 8 and headed north along the coast. Initially the roads were good but once we got past the Veracruz bypass, the coastal road became very bad. Just so that we didn’t become overly focused on the road conditions, the wind whipped up to the 2nd worst that we had seen during a travel day.
Never the less, the caravan moved north. One casualty of the roads was that Dan & Miriam’s microwave decided it had had enough and committed suicide by jumping from the shelf to the floor (short distances are sufficiently deadly for household appliances). Barbara had a closet door come off in her hands, complete with hinges.
Pat and I kept a look out for a lunch place to stop at and finally stopped at an in-door/out-door café. It seemed a nice lace although I wasn’t sure about the name “ La Negrita” meaning “The little Black Lady”. (We never saw anyone so qualified.) We ordered two kinds of shrimp ..one of which I had a clue what it was and one of which I didn’t. I asked the waitress for details but she just started reciting what else came on the plate so we just went with it. They were both good although both were made from intact shrimp..I prefer tails only and shelled and cleaned at that.
The camp is next to the beach, complete with pool and showers. The host took the general numbers per meal and ran off to town to buy food for dinner for the restaurant. When we had the meals later they were very good. She told us that the “Typical Mexican breakfasts” scheduled for the morning had choices of Ham & eggs, Chorizo and eggs, or pancakes and eggs. When Ron groused that those weren’t a very typical Mexican breakfast she replied she wasn’t fond of Mexican breakfasts so that’s what she was going to have. 