Zihutanajo road trip

Changed in our car reservation for a van after seeing the size of car. mis size in Mexico is sub compact elsewhere. 11:00 am we are off, going to catch a bit of night but it won´t be in the dangerous stretch. oh did I tell you the van is older beat up, Kim took pictures, 104K km. caravan a bit of shimmy, lots of room, used the bypass around Manzanillo onto freeway up to collima, 20 km before our turn off toll booth 102 Pasos. through Tecoman and the road got small, Kim says its pass creek rd, at times, very windy so much for made up time. Drove through a village that was suppost to have an achorage, My God , only for the desperate. Stopped at the only decent spot to eat, still a Palapa resturant but new. Well I have not lost it much on this trip but, Kim said I had steam coming of me, only one other couple our food took 1 hr to get 3 min to eat. Bought a watermelon on the side of the road. got gas as it got dark still 120 km to go. took a bypass around Lazaro Cardena, a big industreal port. I think we crossed a dam Kim said the drop off was on both sides, we swapped driving I was blind with my one eye. Ixtapa was a small vilage with hotels in the distance, ZIHUTANAJO was big we miss the turn, take a back street stop for directions, 4 blocks of back allys and we are on the rd we need to be. We exit a round about and we are in La Ropa we have directions except can´t find first land mark, drive around then stop, tired don´t know what to do, looking up desperate I say there is a yellow house we drive that way the speed bumps the drive way. It redefines steep. we back it to the top and there at the gate is Nicolas. we made it 10 pm only 3 hrs late. All my neices Lorraine, Nina, Natasha with husbands  Howard, Grant, and Harold, Nicolus and Mariya. we are all off to the Pizza Jungle best pizza in town. Drinks laughs and pizza ,american owned, we were truely catered to party of 13. some walked back to the casa.As we walked through the Casa with mouth open, it was huge three levels, infiniti pool ,4 bedrooms all with ensuites, privitre balconies, did I mention the view of the whole bay. It felt like a resort and only we were staying there, needless to say the kids swam that night and the adults we drank cervasas, margaritas. ect some got to bed at 5 am, what a day.
the boatless crew of gypsywind