On the road to the Yucatan

It has been three days of constant driving. We wake up early like 6am every morning, pack the van and are on the road by 7am. Then we drive all day until about 4 or 5 and start looking for a good place to sleep. Day one you already know about. Day two we get up and say goodbye to the nearbye horse set off on the road and we get really good at passing big trucks through traffic. On the way a nearbye volcano is smoking. Nobody seemed alamed so we took it lightly. (But how beautiful it looked.) We drove all the way down passing Puebla to the point where Mexico is the skinniest. We dicide that if we get to the beach we should not have any more problems because all of the beaches in Mexico are public. We find this really big city that looks a lot like gringolandia so we try to drive to the outskirts but there is no use. So we end up finding a little neighborhood that is in construction right next to the beach. We agree that this is where we will stay and go to look around. We ask some local construction workers if it will be ok to sleep here. THey say probably but the police to patrol this area. Great!! So after cooking some food we try to go to bed in the intense humidity. Nick and I wake up to four cops walking up to the van. Here we go again. I steped outside the van to talk to them and the asked for our passports. After that they really had nothing they could do so the guy asks for some money for coffee. I play it of like I don{t understand him and say. "No tomo cafe gracias" He gets frustraited and says a couple more things before they all leave. We go back to sleep, if you want to call swating moquitos and sweating all night sleep. The next day of driving is absolutly magical. We choose to take the northern route towards Merida along the rim of the western side of the Yucatan. I have never been to the tropics and GOD is it beautiful. We take a mid day dip in the ocean and keep on truckin. Have a great meal at a little restaurant in Champeton. THen set out to look for a place to sleep on the beach in between Champeton and Campeche. What a spot. RIght on the water trees all around and little fish jumping out of the water. We see iguanas and every kind of seabird you can imagine. Night comes and so do the bugs. We all go for the water because that is where they can not bite you. To our amazement we find special little plankton that light up when we move. Along with the fireflies and shooting stars we each have to pinch ourselves and eachother to make sure we are not dreaming. WOW what a spot.