Around The World In 80 Waves

The sea is practically flat so I do another long drive south. The scenery is stunning and sometimes it seems like the jungle is about to claim the road back, but one heavily laden lorry or pickup truck and you are doing less than 20 miles per hour and progress can be painfully slow. It means I drove well into the night yesterday to just make up some ground.

This is not Top Gear though. It is supposed to be a surf trip and I have to say I am getting somewhat bored of driving on these roads. They have as many twists and turns as your average mountain pass through Snowdonia and it is really tiring even if at times it is a lot of fun chucking the car around the corners. However my left arm is developing a trucker’s tan and if I hit one more unannounced speed bump too hard the car may well have another moment on me!

I caused chaos at a toll booth along one of the toll roads last night. Checking my map in the queue it looked like I had taken a wrong turn so I wanted to do a U-turn and go back the other way. Explaining this was hard enough, but the operator had to open another lane and then get all 15 cars behind me to reverse back along the motorway and then turn into the new lane. While thanking him and explaining where I wanted to go he told me it was indeed the right road but just another example of the ‘interesting’ road signage used here. Ooops!

However I made really good progress yesterday and am now in the Michoacan state which is about two thirds of the way down the Mexican coast. I actually passed a few great breaks around Tecoman without realising it but given the sea conditions am sure there would not have been any surf anyway.