Advertisement
Published: February 1st 2013
Edit Blog Post
Let me reintroduce ourselves. We are couple of senior citizens from San Jose, California. This is our fifth year wintering in Mexico traveling in a Dodge truck carrying a double slide-out Host camper.
Since we're just following the same routes we've taken in the past, we're not planning to blog this year except to post a few photos and comment on new experiences.
For those of you who have followed our earlier blogs - our beloved kitty Furgie passed away in May 2011. This year we are joined by GiGi and AnGi - ten month old silver Persians. They are half sisters - same daddy - different mommas. GiGi is older by just one week but enough to make her think that she is "The Alpha Kitty". They are good travelers, riding in a cage in the back seat. They generally complain for about half an hour each morning that we drive but then settle in and sleep most all day.
Normally, we leave home as soon as we can get the holiday decorations put away but this year several things delayed our departure:
Our 50th Wedding Anniversary was Jan 19th - We wanted to celebrate the
occasion with our family on that date.
Our neighbor George was celebrating his retirement from the Santa Clara County Sheriff's dept. on Jan 20th. We wanted to be there for that.
Lastly, but most importantly, our first great grandbaby was expected to arrive on Jan 26th. Paloma Sophiah Teh arrived early that morning. Her daddy and I texted all night awaiting her arrival. Sadly, she will be about three months old before we get to see her.
We crossed into Mexico about 24 hours later on Sunday, Jan 27th. We were the only immigrants that morning. We were not inspected. The process took only minutes.
We screwed up regarding our telephone. Planning ahead, we contacted Verizon about a week before we left home. They agreed that we could leave our "smart phone" at home and use our 2004 flip phone while we are here in Mexico because Mexico has minimal compatible 3G/4G data coverage. They failed to remind us to call them immediately before crossing the border to initialize global coverage, consequently by the time we realized that we had "no service" we were way too far south to correct the problem. Our only communication options
now are to continue to get by with e-mail and Skype.
We spent our first two nights at Totonaka RV Park in San Carlos then headed south to Mazatlan in order to be settled in here at Mar Rosa, Mazatlan's premier RV park in time for Carnival.
Mazatlan is credited with hosting the world's third largest carnival after Rio and New Orleans.
Our campground neighbors invited us to join their Super Bowl party. We watched the game on a big screen TV with viewing as good as anywhere in the U.S.
Our amigo Greg flew down to Mazatlan last week. He joined us for some of the carnival festivities.
Saturday, the three of us attended a huge street party with fireworks. I have never seen so many people. Security was very strict. Men and women had to enter separately. All men, including Ray and Greg were frisked by police officers.
We scored seats at Valentino's, one of Mazatlan's premier night club/restaurants for what we thot would be a bird's eye view of the parade Sunday night. Though we were very comfortably situated at the end of the parade route we were too far away
Shrimp Mignon at Charlie's Rock in San Carlos.
This dish is on the menu everywhere in this town but I can't find a recipe for it on line tho. Shrimp are tightly packed then wrapped with bacon and topped with a delicious mushroom cream sauce. I have got to try to recreate this. to see the floats well. Fortunately for us, the parade is repeated twice. We watched it again on Fat Tuesday surrounded by locals.
The parade's last three floats carried a bevy of Brazilian beauties, clad only in brightly colored bras and butt floss bikinis. A disgruntled American who now makes Mazatlan his home told us that the city paid $80,000 dollars for these women to come here. He thot the city could make better use of those funds.
Because of its small size, Ray prefers to carry our slow point & shoot versus or our much better Canon consequently our photos of the nearly naked ladies didn't turn out very well. Plus, by time the floats carrying the butt floss beauties came along it was getting pretty dark. Sorry guys!
An interesting thing happened on our way south to Guayabitos where we will spend the next few days enjoying the beach and small town atmosphere. A southbound 18 wheeler carrying wine rolled apparently by taking a curve too fast. We were stuck there for about half hour. While waiting for the road to clear we watched many happy folks walking back to their cars carrying all the
wine bottles they could hold. This happened under the watchful eyes of the local police. The good news is that the company will not have to send a crew out to off load that truck. It was completely empty laying on its side in the northbound lane when we passed. Who says there are no such things as miracles!!! The driver probably survived as the cab was not mangled.
Advertisement
Tot: 0.196s; Tpl: 0.013s; cc: 14; qc: 60; dbt: 0.0884s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1;
; mem: 1.2mb
Candy
non-member comment
Enjoying your blog
I rarely check my old home email account...was glad I did because I rec'd a notification about your entry. I'm looking forward to traveling with you guys again this year. The food looks delish!