Day 12 We Made Some Miles Today

WHERE ARE WE? Roca Azul RV park, Chapala, Mexico

We were up and on the road in good time this morning and it was a beautiful day, so we decided to make a run for Roca Azul RV park which is almost 600 kms away.  Some of the roads were rough, but for the most part it was a relaxing drive.  Here was our route today.

The countryside is typical Mexico today, with some beautiful mountains and lots of waste land.  It has its own sort of beauty.

Lots of these funny looking trees in the median.  Sorry for the dirty windows.

                                         

This one looked like Big Bird!!

The new highway sections have some neat work done in the cuts.

Archie has had enough of travelling.  Her really wants to get to his Mexican home with the big yard where he can roam free.  I don't know if he enjoys the scenery or not, but we do.  

We seemed to think that there was more construction along the way this year.  That is good because the road are starting to deteriorate we noticed.  Nothing big, but those kind of bumps that rattle RRV.  All and all the roads are good though.

We have a couple towns to go through where the streets are narrow and the traffic is heavy.  The lanes are barely 9 feet wide so you have to pay attention.  Lots of truck traffic.

We had a little incident today on a narrow 4 lane in a town where a big 2 trailer semi pulled up on the passenger side of us to pass and he was going a bit fast and had to make a maneuver to avoid a car in front of him so he weaved pretty hard and whipped his back trailer towards me, so I hit the brakes but the back end of his trailer clipped our passenger mirror and broke part of it.  That was a bit scary. Only a scratch on the outside frame of the mirror but the small lens is gone.  We watched him as he went up the road ahead of us and he definitely should not have been driving a big rig like that.  He was weaving all over the place and jeopardizing the traffic as he did so.  We are thankful it was only a small clip cause he could have taken us out!!!

We arrived at Roca Azul after a long day and drove down the narrow overgrown bumpy rough 3 km lane way into the park.  The area where we would normally park was a water logged muddy mess so we just parked on the edge of the soccer field.  I wasn't impressed with our accomodations there at all.  We paid for a serviced parking spot but could not get near any of the open ones for the mud and water.  Oh well, we had a good sleep and will travel on tomorrow.  Good Nite!!

The very narrow road into the park

They always like to build big wall that restrict the Motorhomes from moving easily.

Parked up in the soccer field for the night.