Roads are the trip and you have to enjoy them. And the roadway to East Venezuela is a constant surprise, so in this chapter we went out from Carúpano and reached Playa colorada, all of that in Sucre State. In Carúpano we went into a market, we found places where they made morcillas (blood sausage) and chorizos and we even found the place where they put Christopher Columbus when they stole him from the pedestal on his square. We went to Cariaco looking for thermal waters and we stopped to find out what they were selling on every selling spot that we found on the shore or in the middle of the road. I threw myself into every thermal water pool that I saw and, by dawn I headed out to Cariaco Gulf where I had the most unusual encounter of my traveling life.

I was filming with my GoPro in this glorious town of San Antonio del Golfo and suddenly Emilio Lovera appeared, our luminous comedian, the same with whom I shared screen on RCTV when he was making Radio Rochela while I was making Bitácora. I was very excited! He told me he saw my car. He stopped. And he got close. I howled with joy. Hugs. Even more screaming. It turns out Emilio has been living in San Antonio del Golfo for 37 years. How about that? He then turned into my guide.

We were gossiping like two old ladies in their car. We didn’t know about our traveling preferences and it turns out that we agree on everything. Roads are the trip and the one from East Venezuela is fascinating. We bought lisa eggs and also chorizos.

We had lunch getting wet with the waves. And I found alongside Emilio that in the mountains from San Antonio there are more than 50 trapiche and that all of them keep their traditional method. That there is a river with a legend where - I’m not throwing it into his face - he let me alone to take a bath and that this brilliant comedian setted up a sports bar on the edge of the road and named it San Bilito, because there is a San Bilito that plays sports.

This is to say, that when you are on the east, head out to San Bilito and who knows if Emilio Lovera himself will be the one serving you beers. Right in that place Emilio told me to look for the tremendous inn of a French lady that’s 20 minutes away right on Cariaco Gulf and it turns out they’re making a hotel on the side. I stopped in Cumaná to buy some tobaccos “Crispín Patiño a la Conquista” and I ended up giving myself a glorious bath at Playa Colorada which is so safe now that you can even set up camp and I stayed at an inn that I loved.

As a little kid, Emilio Lovera - Great Venezuelan comedian - was invited by a friend to a home by the sea. He didn’t know there was such joy. That he could have. And from that moment he made a vow to himself that he would have a home by the sea. On a trip he found San Antonio del Golfo - an east town between Carúpano and Cumaná - he saw a shack stuck to the blue in Cariaco Gulf and bought it. From that moment 37 years have passed. Emilio is already a neighbor from San Antonio.