Today turned into one of those “surprise” days. Neither of us really looked at the map very well and for some reason we thought it was only about 225 mile drive. We kept driving, and driving, and driving! Color us surprised when I looked closer at the map and it turned out to be 355 miles from Kino Bay to Puerto Peñasco ! We wish we had left earlier than 9:00 this morning!
We drove through some diverse landscape today. On one side of the road we passed miles of desert and the other was irrigated fields.
Table grapes and asparagus are just two of the crops we passed today. There were also pecan groves and citrus trees.
We stopped in Hermosillo to pick up some medications. One of the prescriptions that is almost $100 USD at home was $597 pesos – or $46.45 USD here! The Soriana pharmacy also had a 20% rebate promotion where we got $119 pesos ($9.25USD) in grocery credit because we had one of their frequent shopper cards. WOW – that was some discount!
We had two military inspection stops today and had to wait behind several large trucks at one of them. Fortunately, the trucks were moved to a separate lane when we got closer to the inspection point. It seems like it took forever, but it was about 30 minutes.
We finally arrived in Puerto Peñasco at the Concha del Mar about 6:30 this evening. It is a “dry camping” place on the beach and we are paying $120 pesos ($9.50USD). We got parked just in time for a lovely sunset.
GPS 31.31636°N, 113.55336°W
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