Day 31: Today was a big travel day. I needed to go nearly 300 miles from Veracruz to Villahermosa. So I didn't have a lot of time to dilly dally (and don't have a lot to report), but in the morning...

...I headed over to the Spanish fort, San Juan de Ulua. This is where the ending of Romancing the Stone was filmed. I was really excited to see it (it's a famous fort), but it was closed!! It is Monday, and lots of stuff is closed on Mondays in Mexico. Oh well. I thought of trying to talk my way in (not that I'd have any chance of doing so, of course), but saw that they were installing a new bridge to the fort, and unloading it from the trailer. So even if I got through the gate no way of getting into the fort itself :)

I caught a delicious meal of fresh fish, Veracruz style (basically with sauteed red peppers and onions on top), and started the long, HOT (100 deg+) ride.

I was nearly wiped out (financially) by the bloody toll booths! I paid over 500 pesos in tolls to get there, that's $50. It's frustrating they charge my little bike the same as a big SUV full of people. This along with the $30 per night hotel rooms are killing my budget.

C'est la vie.