10 November 2010 What a regiment, what a regiment… Sol and George have DRUG me out of bed so that I ride my bike 10 miles with them each and every morning at 8am. Now I’m not complaining (much) but my bike isn’t as fast (or is it just me…) as they are and I don’t have the “experience” that they have. Sounds like I’m complaining doesn’t it, well I know how good this is for me so I’ll just keep it to myself (and now the whole internet world) and suffer through the winter and get “healthy”. Ya right, “amigo, una mos Pacifico por favor”…
Our campground is called “Trailer Park Punta Cerritos”
Our campground is called “Trailer Park Punta Cerritos”
and is located at the end of this peninsula called Cerritos. The Pacific Ocean is 50 yards in front of the coach and we have some pretty good restaurants located all along one of the walls of the park. The buses are constantly waiting for us outside the gate to step aboard and take us into downtown Mazatlan or thousands of stops before and after. Louise joined Carol and 16 other ladies and rode into town yesterday and spent the afternoon shopping. They also found (what she was telling me…) a GREAT little Mexican eatery. The food was SOOOOO good. I hope to get there myself soon but time is getting away from us. We leave here for La Penita on Saturday so I’d better hurry. After my bike ride today, Louise and I drove into “Old Town” Mazatlan. We haven’t been to see the commercial market yet and we also wanted to visit the cathedral.
To get to Old Town we had to follow the Malecon (the boardwalk alongside the Pacific) for miles. It is a beautiful sight, busy with millions of people, cars, buses and small trucks, but still beautiful. It wasn’t until we turned off the Malecon that we really got into stop and go traffic. All of a sudden we were on a single lane roadway with car to car parking (filled) on both sides of us and hundreds of cars and busses in front of us…STOPPED. This being our first time in town I was caught a little off guard. Now what about parking for us??? Finally we got to the corner were the cathedral is but in front of us was a very sober faced policeman. It seems that of all the days to come into town we were joined by hundreds of demonstrators and they chose the area around the cathedral to demonstrate. Sooo, we had to move away from the crowd and HOPE to find a small slot to slide the car into. Finally about 4 blocks away we found just that spot. Then it was just a walk back to the church. This cathedral was first constructed in the early 1700’s with these magnificent rosettes
winding throughout the building. It wasn’t one of most spectacular we’ve ever laid our eyes on, but it was very nice. Following our tour through the cathedral we moved across the street and into the market. I was impressed with how clean it was
and the quality of the foods that they offered. I was hoping to find a small place inside to eat lunch at and I wasn’t disappointed. When we first saw it we knew it was “the place”. There wasn’t a seat left and people were standing and reaching for whatever they could get their hands on. Well I wasn’t that hungry yet, but we did make it back to enjoy some amazing “ceviche”, and all the while sitting on a stool alongside the counter. We didn’t just go to eat, we also went back to the coach with a half kilo of smoked marlin, a whole red snapper, more ceviche, a kilo of shrimp, and some veggies…all for less than $15.00…try that at the Pike Place Market.