After three weeks in Veracruz City, it was time to say adios and move four hours up the Gulf Coast to La Costa Esmeralda (the Emerald Coast).
Leaving CocoAventura.
The Port of Veracruz.
Our Mexico-USA RV Journey 2024-25
Along the highway, we spotted a number of these cherry-blossom-like trees in full bloom.
Another ridiculously narrow highway with absolutely no shoulder. Thankfully, not a lot of big rigs on this one.
Our first night was spent at a small hotel and RV park called CocoLoco, owned and operated by an eccentric Swiss guy named Martin.
Martin was very nice and it was a cool setting, but didn’t have functional hookups to get Lori online for work, so we drove six minutes farther north the next day to a more established RV park.
We at least got one very nice evening to enjoy the location before moving on.
It wasn’t exactly pretty, but Lori did manage to get a bit of work done at CocoLoco. But honestly, I reckon most people don’t to come to CocoLoco to get work done. Most folks come to do this…
…and this…
Our little hammock hoppers…
The next morning before leaving, we thought we’d take a little walk into town. Casitas isn’t the most inspiring beach town we’ve been to by any stretch, but it was worth a quick poke around.
Casitas is known for its lagoon and tourist boat trips. If we had stayed another night, we might have been tempted to do a boat trip. But we were eager to get settled in our new digs up the coast.
After leaving Casitas and CocoLoco, we made the six-minute trip to El Corsario RV Park, where we ended up parking ourselves for just over two weeks.
We had a nice sea view out our back window, full hookups, and access to two swimming pools—all for the princely sum of 350 pesos per night (~US$18).
This is the final picture I took of our Gen 2 Starlink before it bit the dust. The warranty on these things is only 12 months, and we were just barely out of the window by a week.
It also really ticked me off that the thing bit it here and not Veracruz where we could figure out a replacement somehow.
In the end, Starlink did send us out a brand new Gen 3 free of charge (we had to send back the old one within a tiny window of time, which turned out to be quite the little challenge).
The new dish sat waiting for us five hours away at an RV park in Tepotzotlan where we’d eventually head to, so we made do with crappy campground wifi and Telcel data packages for the rest of our time here on the coast.
The beach at El Corsario was a pleasant surprise—much nicer than we expected. The first evening here, we explored points north, where there were a couple of black sands beaches.
Riley enjoyed the black-sands beaches most of all (perhaps a bit too much).
