It is still the weekend, so we must sing; this is El Cascabel, a famous son jarocho. Songs like this are sung especially at Candlemas in Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, on the river Papaloapan. I would like to go there. This travel writer says Tlacotalpan is “where Mexico is perfect,” and recommends we stay in the Posada Doña Soco, which costs $14.
There are many buses from TAPO to Veracruz including express ones that arrive in 5 hours, 10 minues (the others take 6 hours, 30 minutes). But from Veracruz to Tlacotalpan there is only one that I can see, leaving at 8:15 PM and arriving at 9:55. It takes that long to go 90 kilometers because it stops a lot. I don’t see a bus returning to Veracruz at all.
Some people might consider renting a car from Veracruz. I would consider looking for informal collective travel, or hitchhiking. I am also sure that if you spent a few days in Tlacotalpan you would meet someone who would give you a ride to the main road, where the inter-city buses drive.
In the same state, you can go to the beach at Tecocutla, convenient to the great archaeological site El Tajín, which Professor Zero, the author of this codex, needs to see since he is from an archaeological site himself. There is a festival each year at the spring equinox, and you can visit Papantla and the Totonac ritual flyers.
Then you could go to Xalapa, where those famous Olmec heads live, and take a day trip out to Coatepec.
What else shall we visit in Veracruz?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
The great MANUEL MAPLES ARCE is from Papantla, and I did not know this! In 1924 Maples Arce wrote a “Bolshevik Super-Poem” about Mexico City, which is very funny. The narrator of this blog has always considered him an ancestor, but now there is yet more reason for this: pre-Hispanic + avant-garde, that’s us, yes.