THE WEATHER WE LEFT BEHIND

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Buenos Diaz!

It's 6:00am Wednesday morning and we are almost set to pull out. Just waiting for daylight before getting on the road to the next "adventure". Today we want to travel 325 miles to Celestino, 45 miles north of Mazatalan. Celestinorvresort.com Even on the Mexican "toll road" it's a 7 or 8 hour drive. The toll is about $12.50 US each toll booth. It has nothing to do with miles traveled, just where ever they put a booth you pay the toll. As first timers it's well worth the money (if we can just follow the signs to get on the toll road - we didn't do too good Saturday) because the road is all 4-lane, in pretty good shape, and you get free road service if you break down by the "Green Angels" who patrol the toll road. They actually do this because down here there are no highway "shoulders" to pull over to if you have trouble. You must usually just stop in the road. The dropoff just off the road surface is 6-12 inches and steeply sloped. So they want to do whatever they can to quickly get you up and running again or towed away. But they are supposedly decent mechanics and carry basic repair supplies and can get most problems solved on the spot. Hope we never have to test the system!

It's cool this morning as it was cloudy and very windy most of yesterday, but the stars are out so the sky is clear and it should be a beautiful day today.

Clouds knock out the parks internet signal so we had no internet yesterday. This morning it's back on so we both are sitting here - online - drinking coffee (with Baileys, of course) trying to get in a little work before leaving. In Mexico you take advantage of anything you can get because you never know when what you currently have will be unavailable - water, electricity, cell phone service, internet, etc.

It's time to get going and pack things up. We should have internet at our next stop but ??????

Pictures of Celestino hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning.

Adios Amigos

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