We had an early wake-up call today whether we wanted it or not. A Mexican family parked their car right behind our RV and had their music and bass booster blaring at 6:30 this morning! Our entire RV was vibrating from their music. Since it was impossible to sleep, we got up and went for a walk before breakfast. Cindy was getting ready to leave and she was talking to the guy that owns the fancy house across from the Malecon. It turns out that we met Brian six years ago! He’s a retired US Marine living here at Playa Ceuta and built his house with the intention of having a B&B. When he finished, he decided to just keep it for himself! He was telling us that one of the rich ranchers near here has plans to develop the open space between his house and the restaurant where we parked into a 5Star resort! There are plans for a second, 50-room hotel just south of his place. What a shame that this quiet little beach will become a mega-resort area. We are glad we got to see it again as its sleepy little area.
We were on the road by 8:30 and continued through the “breadbasket” of Sinaloa. The cornfields go on forever and both of us commented that it reminded us of Iowa! There are lots of grain elevators, also.
We also went by several large greenhouse operations – most of them seem to be for tomatoes.
We have seen lots of people bicycling, but seldom just for the fun of riding – it is usually as a means of transportation. This group of guys were out for a fun ride with the car you see acting as their support.
We went by some interesting places. This one was called Excalibur. It was some kind of entertainment center and there was a waterpark next to it. It was huge!
We also passed the Paris Hotel. Can someone please let Las Vegas know where the Eiffel Tower is??
I’m not sure if I have posted a photo of the PEMEX stations or not. PEMEX is the national gasoline station in Mexico. It used to be that the price for gas was the same everywhere in Mexico. That has changed a little, but it is more regional now. We have paid as little as $17.30 per liter up to $18.20 per liter. ($3.65 - $3.85USD/gallon). Six years ago very few stations took credit cards, but that has changed. Most take them – however, the US credit cards don’t always work with their machines! We always have them check before pumping, just in case we need to pay in pesos so we have enough! We were able to fill our fresh water tank today after we got gas so we should be good for another four or five days!
Our goal today was to get to the beach at Las Glorias. Google maps is not always your friend! We went down 10 or more miles of gravel roads through cornfields and it wanted us to take several dirt canal roads. We managed to FINALLY find our way to a decent road that would get us to Las Glorias, but it was DEFINITELY not the way we got here six years ago – and definitely at least 2 hours extra! Now comes the crazy part – when we turned onto the beach road in town, there was another RV parked here and they had Colorado license plate! We tried to find the owners so we could say hello, but they never showed up!
We did meet a guy from the Phoenix area, Reno, who was here with his family for Semana Santa vacation. (Easter Holy Week) He was really nice and showed us another area of the beach we might consider camping at. While the beach area was great, most of the sand was too soft for our RV, so we headed back toward town.
We talked to a couple local policemen and they said we could park on the street near the beach and they would be patrolling. There are lots of folks camped in tents on the beach and plenty of ATVs were racing up and down the beach. Now that the sun has gone down, things have quieted down. We are looking forward to a quieter night!
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