Lots of road construction. They are working on taking out a lot of the very tight curves and widening the highway. Eventually there will be a toll road from Oaxaca to join the north-south Mx 200 just south of Puerto Escondido. It will certainly make the trip between Oaxaca city and the interior of the state to the Oaxaca coast much shorter and easier. (See previous post.)
We had first seen the construction last year as we drove north and noted this year that nothing had been done since--there were two meter tall bushes and trees growing in the newly cut road allowance! We thought they had perhaps run out of money but the eventually we came across active construction and were a little happier.
Except when we were right in the middle of it. They had cut quite deeply in places, right up to the edge of the traveled part; often a vertical cut in sandy soil sometimes meters deep. We half expected to have it collapse under us!
The construction carried on almost all the way to Puerto Escondido. Dual lane asphalt was being laid on and off starting about 50 kilometers south of Puerto Escondido but wasn't in use until much closer. At one point we drove past many kilometers of unused new road, wondering why we were stuck here on the narrow old road, then realised that the bridge at the end was just being built!
Further on when we were driving north on a beautiful new surface, the arrows painted on the road showing two lanes north. But the old road alongside had a couple of bridges out so south bound traffic was coming towards us in the left lane! No signs, no barriers, no warning at all except on coming traffic! Judging by the state of the missing bridges in the old road this had been the norm for some time!
However we arrived safely, Art parked in the right lane while Gillian went to find someone to open the gate.
This park is nothing great, though the restaurant in the hotel wasn't too bad last year. The electric power was again unusable (no ground) and there was only one word for the bathrooms: disgusting. Same as last year.
Since it was so hot (92 inside the rig) and there was no one else in the park Art decided to start the generator and turn the air conditioner on. Everything started normally then suddenly the generator rpm increased dramatically for a second or two then dropped down to normal. This happened several times then Art noticed that the current draw was shooting up to 57 amps--more than double the normal 23 Amp draw of the compressor starting up. Seems like the heat pump had died! Art shut things down and then turned the extractor fans to high.
Gillian got the chairs out and we sat out in the shade of the trees and enjoyed the breeze. . . until the bugs bugs began to eat our legs. Even Art, who is seldom bothered by biting bugs had red bites from ankles to knees. We soon retreated inside. At least we had the satellite TV working.
The town of Puerto Escondido is delightful. However this RV park needs a little more work, but it is hard to justify the expense when there are so few RVers traveling in Mexico in recent years. There is another park here but access is impossible except for small RVs so we haven't seen it except in passing.
It's a long drive to Acapulco tomorrow, and we hope get to the other side to Pie de la Cuesta so an early start will be in order. We heard that the road north is good. We'll see soon enough.
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