Mexico 2012 RV Trip - Day 70 - March 5, 2012 Arroyo Seco Playa Grande - Punta Perula

This morning we had to stop for our first cow in the road. Bull, actually. He was really stubborn and did NOT want to give up his real estate. Tobey honked the horn at him a few times and inched the RV forward, but he wasn’t going to budge. He finally realized that we really were bigger than him and he begrudgingly moved to the side of the road.

We had driven by Agua Caliente, a small town about 6km south of Arroyo Seco, and had heard that the river had hot springs in it. We decided to check it out and drove back to Agua Caliente. The river was a little south of town, so we found a wide spot in the road and parked to walk down to the river. The water was warm, but we couldn’t see where it was supposed to be bubbling up. It definitely had that sulfur smell to it that comes with hot springs, but we decided that further investigation to find the source would have to wait until our next trip.

Back on the road we were headed to Punta Perula. There are five RV parks here and we looked at all of them. We were not overly impressed and their prices were high ($250-$300 pesos/night $19.85-23.80USD). We stopped at Chee-Chee Restaurant right on the beach and asked if we could park here for the night. The owner told us it was no problem, so we are staying here. The down side is we have no internet. The upside is we ate dinner here and the food was great! I had shrimp in almond sauce and Tobey had the red snapper grilled with garlic. They had yummy chips and salsa and both dinners came with rice and salads. Dinner was $195 pesos including tip ($15.50USD) so Tobey likes to think we paid $195 pesos to camp and got dinner free!We spent the afternoon walking the beach, which is really long.

About a mile to the south there is a resort and there were several blonde-haired folks hanging out. We stopped to ask them about the resort. The one fellow we talked to said they were from Norway and were here in Mexico filming a reality TV show, “Paradise Hotel.” He was a camera man, but Tobey mostly seemed to noticed three of the girls that were probably part of the show. He told us it was one of those “dating-type” shows where the first part has 6 guys and 5 girls, they have to arrange dates … and “whatever” (my words, not his). Then the show changes and you have 5 guys and 6 girls. He said it was great spending two months in Mexico during Norway’s coldest part of the year.

We came back to the beach by our RV and spent some time swimming. The water here is much calmer. We also talked to three women from the States. One of them lives here at least 10 months of the year – she and her husband are building a house here. The other two were friends who had spent several months here also. The funny part was they were all from the St. Louis area, less than 2 miles from Tobey’s home turf!

After dinner we noticed these fishermen not far offshore. The birds noticed them too and were following them quite closely! We stopped to watch the sunset then stopped at one of the RV parks just down the beach to visit with some of the folks there before coming home.

Today we drove 40 miles and had a pretty relaxing day. Tomorrow we head north again and hope to find a Tel-Cel office so we can renew our internet banda.

GPS 19.58843°N, 105.12469°W