This one is for our fellow Mexican travelers. Whether you are entering the country, applying for a phone, or visiting the electric company, getting the paperwork done while in Mexico can be a truly frustrating, time consuming experience.
Thanks to Garth, he knew I would love this one and I bet you will too.

If you follow this blog you have been to this town twice before. Once on the way south in 2009 and again last November 2010, once again on our way south to Mazatlan. I think it’s safe to say that this is Marilyn’s favorite spot in Mexico for a bunch of reasons including pavement and concrete and amazing scenery.

We got in here yesterday shortly after noon. Brent & Donna, Ken & Patty, and Jessie and Gary  showed up about 4 pm, on their way from Stone Island back to the USA. If you were in Stone Island in 2009/2010 you will remember Wayne and Marilyn from Nevada, they  have been here at Totonaka all winter.

Brent & company were on the road at 7 this morning. Tomorrow morning it will be our turn. We plan to cross into the US at Lukeville, Arizona on our way to Yuma for a few days.

Of course before you can leave San Carlos you have to vist the Soggy Peso Bar, probably, in my opinion, one of the best beach bars in Mexico (I’ve visited a lot of them)

As you can see it was windy and not very busy. what you can’t see is that the the wind was really, really cold. Today we stayed long enough for Bob to buy a T-Shirt  and then it was adios and back to town, in the sun but out of the wind for a cool one.

 Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

They say every day we learn something and today I learned I’m not very good at saying Goodbye; especially when I’m saying Adios to the special people we have become great friends with at Tres Amigos RV Park. Let’s face it, this year especially, the RV park is a dust bowl. However, it does have 8 or 10 miles of gorgeous deserted beach and most importantly an absolutley amazing group of fun loving, good natured friendly folk. We will truly miss them all.

But reality calls, so this morning at about 8 AM Bob & Marjorie and  Marilyn and I said our Goodbyes, hooked up our toads and headed north.

Tonight we find ourselves at Los Mochis Copper Canyon RV Park. with 3 other RV’s  all headed north and I believe all headed for Totonaka for a couple of days Monday.

On most trips down here we are blown away be the hundreds of kilometers of beautiful agricultural fields. This year, after the coldest winter in 50 or 60 years, it’s 100′s of kilometers of fields of dead crops. Except for the odd small area,  it’s nothing but brown, frozen out crops.

The only other thing different about this trip were the hundreds of Army vehicles, with every man packing large machine guns at the ready. You have to appreciate the fact that they are doing their best for us, I am just a bit troubled by how many of them it takes to get the job done. We wonder if the cartels are more of a problem than we thought.

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