WOW is it HOT!

Monday morning we had a nice sunrise in San Carlos.  

A picture of the campground.

We took a little drive through San Carlos to see what it looked like.

There are at least five people in the back of the pickup.  That is very common in Mexico.

San Carlos has a nice marina.

An interesting mountain/hill.

The entrance to the Totonaka campground. 

Some trees were shaped like ducks?

Time to get moving.

Lots of construction and rough roads today.

Many things for sale in every town you drive through.

When you pass a construction area it is rare to see anyone actually working.

Nice new piece of highway with a shoulder!  The Mexicans use it as a third lane.

Not sure who this guy is.  It looks like he has a deer on his head & a bowling ball in his hand.

More construction.

Starbucks is everywhere.  They are the building on the left.

Toll booth ahead.  We went through many of them.  One day I will figure out how much we paid.

More rough roads.  It is only one lane each way but they make a third lane in the middle when they want to pass and everyone needs to move over.

We are entering our second state in Mexico.

Some nice highway.

We see lots & lots of motorbikes.  They use the shoulder a lot or weave between the traffic.

We were going to stay at a truck stop in Los Mochis.  We stopped there for fuel and it would have been a good secure place to stay for the night, however, we had already decided to go to Las Glorias.  

We had read and heard about Las Glorias, and although it is a one hour drive off the main highway we thought we should check it out.  It is a slow drive through farming communities.

Very pretty area.

In Mexico they celebrate Dia de Muertos, Day of the Dead on Oct. 31st, Nov. 1st & 2nd.  

Traditions connected with the holiday include building private altars called ofrendas, honoring the deceased using sugar skulls, marigolds, and the favorite foods and beverages of the departed, and visiting graves with these as gifts. Visitors also leave possessions of the deceased at the graves. We passed by a large celebration on November 2nd, which was our grandson Colton's 5th birthday.

Damage report of the day: our little end table got bounced around and one of the legs fell off.

We finally arrived at Mr. Moro RV park in Las Glorias.  

We were the only ones there, camped right on the beach.  Unfortunately they have been hit by two hurricanes and the resort is not what it used to be.  Even so it was a gorgeous place to spend the night for very little money.

I had the worst Margarita I have ever had.  I couldn't even drink it.

We met a really fun group of people from Los Mochis.

Sunrise.

Beautiful morning.

Dogs, dogs, everywhere.

Cleo does not look impressed.

Time for a walk on the beach.

This picture was accidental but you can see all the shells.

The water was very warm.

Great spot to camp.

Somebody had fun.

We considered staying another day but thought we would head for Mazatlan and possibly stay there two days.

We passed through some beautiful scenery driving out of Las Glorias.

I had to get some animal pictures for my grandkids.

There is a person standing up in the back of the truck.

It was a long bumpy ride.

Dave took this pic in Mazatlan.

We arrived at our over-priced campsite in Mazatlan.

Damage report of the day: a footstool bounced off the chair and landed on the end table.  It's now missing two legs.  Driving to the rv park in Mazatlan we went under some low branches and broke the roof vent in our bathroom, the top of the dome over the shower & dented the dome over the satellite dish. We had no choice but to be in that lane.  I also noticed the next morning that the kitchen sink was starting to detach.  We knew that it needed re-caulking and Dave brought caulk to do it but I guess all the bouncing and jiggling started to remove the old caulking for him.  

We had a terrific sunset.  The reasons we weren't happy with the campground are as follows:  it was very expensive, we only had 15 amp service, we had to pay extra for wifi which barely worked and the water came out in a trickle.

I made us a tequila sunrise which turned out great!

We walked down the street to a patio and had beer for 20 pesos which is $1.60.  

I am going to end this blog at Tuesday night.  I seem to be too "busy" to get it finished.  I will continue tomorrow if I'm not too "busy". 

By the way, it has been incredibly hot ever since we entered Mexico.  It's been in the 30's every day (that's over 90 farenheit, for some of you) and very humid, kind of like the Great Woods summer.  I know you have no sympathy for us.