Friday, February 6, 2015

Windy day


Today we were up and on the road by 8 am. We were headed for Tehuamtepic which was a 2.5 hour drive or if it was a good drive we were going to Bahias de Huatulco. Well it was not a good drive once we hit the wind mills a police pulled us over and warned us about the wind but said we could go if we wanted to. All the other trucks were still going so we went for it. At about 25 kilometers I pulled into a Pemex station. At that point I was driving at about 5 kil. an hour and the RV was on a 45 degree angle they said the wind was over 70 kilometers an hour the RV was just bouncing around the parking lot of the Pemex some of the gusts we thought the she was going over.


I had heard about this place but never paid it much mind. I just figured if the trucks were running it would be ok. This is the biggest wind farm I have ever seen.


This is how the trucks drive in the wind the heavy loaded truck blocks the wind for the lighter truck they drove for miles like this.



So we stayed in the parking lot for 6 hours waiting for the wind to die. It did slow down a bit and we made the choise to leave. Still heading for Tehuamtepic well It was about 40 kilomiters and I ended up missing the turn I hate GPS it was wrong again.We had no place to turn around so I just kept going. We are parked at a rest area by a toll booth and the wind is still so strong we are going to have to tie our self's in bed tonight the old RV is just a bouncing.


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  1. When I was driving through there 15 years ago my awning started to unfurl, luckily I could find a place to pull over and duct tape it so it stopped.
    Another time I thought the RV would tip over and the front window blew out on the edge. Pretty scary place. The cuota is a good bypass of Tehuantepec. Have you see the couple in the truck camper again that was at Xpu-Ha?

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    1. No we have not seen them again I am sure we will see them again

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  2. There is a reason that they built the wind farm there! We have been lucky both times that we went through the area and it wasn't real windy. Those semis are built to stand up to fairly high winds but motorhomes are totally different and can't take winds like that.

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    1. I will never drive that way again I never new it would be that strong they say school buses just blow over there scary stuff.

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