Bloviator
Jan 4, 2006, 4:59 AM
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Re: [tonyburton] Updated Mexico Connect map of Veracruz
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Wish we had your map on our recent trip. The auto club map shows no free road from Vera Cruz to Cordoba. As a result about half way between the two cities, we chickened out, thinking that we were on a road that wandered way north of Cordoba. We asked a Mexican who agreed that we were on the wrong road and that we were going to a different town than Cordoba. (Naturally we were both wrong. The problem with asking Mexicans in the back country about routes to elsewhere, is that they often have never been anywhere but their own town or have only gone on a bus and have no idea how to get anywhere except home and to the plaza.)
We started down a different road that, with the aid of our Atlas, eventually took us to within two miles of the cuota to Villa Hermosa. At that point it withered into three dirt roads. Luckily, the ubiquitious returnee from California (there seems to be at least one nearby whenever we get lost in a small town and can't figure how to get out and on to the next town) told us how to get to the cuota. He then jumped into his car and led us there. This was really essential, because when we got to the cuota, there was no on ramp. He took us into a highway construction camp, talked to some people there, then took us to a fence by the cuota, talked to some people there. They then opened the gate and we were on the cuota. After that we noticed that usually where there is an overpass on the cuota and no entry, there is an informal entry that the locals use.
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