Cuernavaca to Acapulco
December 27, 2009

Canyon
Bridge
Campsite
More roads

We left our lovely Pemex station this morning and headed towards the city of Acapulco. Most of you know this as the city of the cliff divers and the horses on the beach. Well we will probably not see the cliff divers as they are in the city proper beaches an I have seen one too many inner cities for now and have no intention of driving back into Acapulco.
It was 150 miles of mountains and although the roads were very good it was still 150 miles of mountains. After this trip I will be glad, more than glad to just drive on flat endless desert without a view of a mountain for a very long time. One or tow mountains are fine but endlessly as we have had on this trip are just tooooooooooo much.
It is breathtaking though all of the scenery and I do appreciate looking down on endless landscapes that look like the Grand Canyon.
After arriving in the outskirts of Acapulco you must go thru one more tunnel before entering the city. Now this tunnel is about 1Km or more long and in an RV I was glad there was not much traffic today.
We were looking for Av Adolfo Ruiz Cortines to make a right hand turn in the city to take us out to the campground. Now this is simple enough when you see the sign just turn right. Except that this is the second time we have seen the sign for a street but the sign means that you turn in one more block not where the sign is posted. So needless to say I was lost again and this was after asking for directions for three or four times. Finally, after asking again a kindly man said to follow him and after navigating streets that were barely one lane wide, and making turns that you had to back up and take a second shot at, and then narrowly not going down a street with a street market on it we were again on the right street and headed in the right direction.
One more turn after a few miles and we were on our way to Cadiz pie de la Cuesta. After driving for so long (it was now 12:30 PM) we were in a very tourist area on a two lane road lined with restaurants and small hotels so it was time for lunch. We stopped at a small restaurant which had a pallapa out on the beach and had there Red Snapper (which was a whole fish, wrapped and steamed in a banana leaf), rice, guacamole, french fries, salad and tortillas for about $7.00. This was a dinner that was enough for both of us.
Afterwards it was time to find our campgrounds which turned out to be quite easy this time. After all it even had a sign that said it was a campground, so how could we miss it.
It turns out that this may be one of the best we have stayed at so far. We have a beachfront campsite with its own pallapa, table, and pool. That’s right there is a small pool for each campsite as well as a large common pool.
Life just does not seem to get better than this but in two days it is time to move north again to the Zihuatanejo area. I understand that we should expect major road construction and slow driving on this next stretch. Not that we have not experienced that before. After all who else can say that they forded a river on their camping adventure in and RV.