Friends, Larry and Maureen, are ahead of us in their van and pulling their car. Dave and Theresa are behind us in their Hitchhiker.
Made it to the border and crossed pretty much without incident. The female guard at the Mexico checkpoint asked if we had liquor on board. I said NO but she wanted to check the trailer so I got out and we walked around to the door. I opened it and she went in and again asked for liquor. I said NO. She looked in the refrigerator (??) and asked about liquor one more time. I shook my head no and that was it.
Judy took this picture just inside the border, and, no, this was not our RV Park!!
From the border it was another 50-60 miles to Puerto Penasco.
Finally made it to PP. This is the street approaching the Sea of Cortez in the distance and the RV Park just to the right.
We ended up with a site in the park but not backed up to the beach like we had requested. In Mexico they do things differently. They take your deposit but they do not assign a site to you until you arrive. In most cases, the beach front sites are always full and you have to wait until one opens up.
(We should be getting into one tomorrow (Saturday) as a couple of our friends have to leave tomorrow).
Beach views.
We meet up with the other 'Hitchhiker' couples each afternoon for Happy Hour at one of the beach sites.
At sunset, someone down the way rings a bell 3 times and between each bell ring, Murray (below) blows on his conch shell!!
On Saturday, the 11th, the Park had a free Fish Fry (and beer) for everyone. We all were at Dave and Theresa's RV and watched them fry the fish.
It was a great afternoon, about 75 degrees and sunny. They had plenty of fish and beer for all!!
On Monday we all drove over to a place called "Dukes." They have a special every day. Monday is cheeseburger, fries, and drink for $5. Very good food for the price.
Wednesday Judy and I drove into town to get some supplies. On the way we saw this cow...
Notice the local Sams and then something called Bodega Aurrera which is actually a Walmart. It doesn't look much like one inside but they do have "Great Value" products so we guess it probably is one.
For Valentines Day we all went to this restaurant for dinner. We had a 6 o'clock reservation and had to place our orders a couple of days early.
This is Randy and Sharon.
Jeff and Susan.
Larry and Maureen.
Dave and Theresa.
Murray and Shelly.
And yours truly.
And I had the steak plate. The meat was so tender you could almost cut it with your fork.
Dessert.
This was our bill for the dinner. They take credit cards as well as cash.
(980 pesos divided by $51.50 equals 19.03 pesos per dollar). Not bad for two lobsters, steak, a margarita, and two beers.
Just threw this one in - one of many beautiful sunsets.
On Wednesday 4 of us went out fishing in this boat.
We went out about 4 miles. This view back to land is the RV Park. Hard to see but you can see the backs of RV's to the left of center.
We were a little concerned at first because our captain caught about 4 fish before any of us had a bite!! But he was casting whereas we were just dropping our lines into the water.
We caught alot of smaller fish - sometimes two at a time since we had double hooks on our line.
This was sea bass that I caught.
All the fish caught went into this bucket. As you can see it is almost full. The one on top is a trigger fish. We had a lot of those.
All in all, it was a good day. The water was quite choppy at first but settled down after a couple of hours. The captain cleaned the fish before we headed back to the docks, and, Randy separated them and gave each of us a bag of fillets. We each got about 1 1/2 lbs of fish.
But we are protected by the trailers along side us. Tomorrow we are supposed to get rain with the winds so that should be interesting!! Tomorrow we are supposed to move to a beach site so we will see how that goes!!
