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| last minute pampering! |
12/1/13
After spending an amazing summer
exploring the US and visiting family and friends we settled in
California to wait for our new grandson to be born. Family
challenges kept us in the states until just a few days before
Thanksgiving, so we decided to enjoy that with our girls and their
families and we headed South the Friday after Thanksgiving.
We dropped our 5th wheel and
truck off at a storage facility, and headed straight for Marcus's
childhood hometown to spend a couple of nights with his best buddy
Bill and wife Gloria. After 2 fun days, we headed to Newport Beach
and spent the night hanging out with our Mexico cruising friends on a
catamaran named Moontide.
From there it was Tucson to spend the
night, and pick up a few last minute things. It took us much longer
in Tucson to find what we needed and I tried to convince Marcus to
spend one more night there, but he was too excited about getting back
to Mexico, so we didn't cross the border till about noon.
I admit, while in the States, I became
completely addicted to my smart phone. The ability to map, research,
email and facebook anytime I wanted was just what this internet
addict craved. Not that it was good for me, Marcus had a difficult
time convincing me to look up from the screen during our travels. I
suffered MAJOR withdrawals as soon as I was unplugged.
We had some trouble locating a hotel,
finding ourselves at the back side of one the the recommended hotels
I had researched I saw some “ladies” lounging on street corners,
and we quickly decided to head back to a place we had seen on the
main road through town. It was getting late, and we sure didn't want
to be out after dark in an unknown city. As dusk arrived we finally
checked into a place right on the main street of town. The lobby
looked nicer than the rooms, but still it was pretty nice by Mexico
standards, although the bed was HARD.
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| bed was as hard as cement, oh that's why! |
We went out wandering to look for some
dinner. There were a few gringo type places nearby, but we tend to
like the little places, the street vendors and mom and pop places. I
saw an interesting place just back from the street past an OXXO (like
a Mexican 7-11), we met Carlos, the owner and set us up with some
yummy tostadas. The beans are always so good in Mexico, YUM. Marcus
asked for a beer, and I wanted water, Carlos said they didn't serve
beer, but he would get him some. In little places like this they
usually serve the beer in a bottle, but Marcus received his beer in a
cup. The proprietor said it was beer from the cooks. Coors lite,
hah! Welcome to Mexico
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