3 April 2010
You know, I think this is the longest period that I’ve gone through without posting. At this very moment we are sitting in a wonderful location deep in the heart of the Foothills of Yuma and have been here for a week…more about that later, but first let’s catch up a little.
Between the 10th of March and the 22nd we were still very much enjoying La Piñata. We had a chance to move to one of the “PREMO” spots that sits directly over the beach.
I could start my day by having my morning coffee while sitting with my feet propped up on the railing and hear and feel the surf as it came rushing up the sandy beach 50 feet below. I felt like we had moved our coach onto the patio of a 5 star hotel… Hell, we even had local visitors join us…Ziggy (the male),
Aggy (one of the females), and 6 others that would drop in now and then throughout the day. We continued to visit the farmers market in La Piñata and Guyobitas each week. We really enjoyed the many breakfast, lunches and dinners
that we took while on and off the beaches of the local communities, and then of course, we still had the Sunday hamburger and Tuesday taco nights (in the palapa)
at the park. Boy, did we eat good or what??? Something I didn’t do when we were there in December was water volleyball. Well I made up for lost time…I played twice a day over the last three weeks and really enjoyed myself.
Another great benefit from staying another month was we were able to see the improvements that Sol made. Sol is tough and for what he went through he showed it each day, but then there was Carol….she was twice as tough and she needed to be. Our meeting them has meant a great deal to Louise and me and we look forward to traveling again with them soon. To have our last dinner together on this journey to Mexico was a lot of fun and very emotional for all of us.
Now we have plans to continue were we left off sometime in the very near future (possibly this next winter). On the 22nd we put the coach in gear and headed to Tepic. Tepic is only about 2 hours northeast of La Piñata and we were headed there to have the frontend of the Minnie Winnie aligned. Boy we almost bit the big one in Tepic…we took a wrong turn and ended up on a road that was so narrow that I really thought there was no way we could make the 2 turns I needed to take. I did hit the driver’s side mirror once against another pick-up and then on the last turn I crawled up onto a very high curb and almost laid the side of the motor home against a telephone pole…close but no hitty… We were looking for the Ford dealer and after our close call, we found it a little further down the main road. Unfortunately we couldn’t get in to have the work done for another 4 days so we continued down the road. Our next stop (about 3 hours away) was Mazatlan. We were only there to spend the night and then in the morning continue on north. I chose our “campground” for the night because of a good experience I had camping there…the hospital parking lot were Louise spent a night the last time we were in Mazatlan. With full security, in the middle of the city, great food in the hospital restaurant, and easy to get too, a great combination. Our next overnight stop was going to be in a huge parking lot behind a PEMEX (the Mexican service stations) in Novajoa. Sometimes this kind of stop can be real noisy, but that night was relatively quiet. Our third and fourth nights were spent in Santa Ana with Ana and Edgar. We spent a couple of nights with them on our way down. They have the campground that we spent our first night in Mexico. Edgar is also the one who found me the mechanic that “could fix our air-conditioning” system…well, he fixed it OK, but unfortunately it didn’t hold. This time he wanted to have his mechanic fix our front end problem. I’ll make this short…after taking the tie-rods off he found he couldn’t get the parts so he had to put them back on. I was a little miffed, no, I was a lot “miffed”. Fortunately we were able to drive on, and on we did… We drove to the border at Lukeville and crossed into the USA. We crossed the border just after noon so we decided to head up the road another 5 miles and stop for lunch at the Organ Pipe National Monument. Finishing lunch Louise looked at me and convinced me we should head back across the border and drive on another 18 miles to the place where we purchased our 10 year import sticker. You see, this sticker is good ONLY for the vehicle that it is placed on and must be removed by the same office you purchased it from. If we were to sell this Minnie Winnie (which we are going to do…) and the sticker went with it, we could NEVER take another vehicle deep into Mexico again. Soooo, across the border to get the sticker taken off and de-registered, turn around and head back to cross the border one more time before heading to the casino RV parking lot in Why, Arizona. Now let me tell you about this casino….DON’T WASTE YOUR TIME !!!!
This Monday morning we have another appointment for our frontend alignment (and anything else it might need). I look forward to having all this finished.
This Monday morning we have another appointment for our frontend alignment (and anything else it might need). I look forward to having all this finished.